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by tenebrisalietum
1954 days ago
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> I feel like most things come down to people wanting to have enough resources to live happily. If they just had enough money, most of their problems would be solved. So how do we get people the money they need to be happy? Is making young people go 50k+ in debt to enter the workforce, while creating conditions that cause rent and housing prices to skyrocket the way to do it? |
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If there is an abundance of people foolish enough to incur such debt then I see no way to prevent capitalism from doing so.
Despite our social advances the situation today remains the same as that which Charles Dickens' characterizes in "A Christmas Carol" where the main obstructions to progress are "Ignorance" and "Want"(poverty). In particular, Ignorance is difficult to extinguish w/o doing something abhorrent (at least for most of us). Although far from a Christian, more and more I find appropriate the phrase:
"The poor you will always have with you..."
- Matthew 26:11