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But again, the overriding problem, they say, is the dire lack of places low-income people can afford to live. "There's really no way to solve homelessness without seriously addressing this," says Kushel, the UCSF researcher. "Otherwise, we're going to be compelled to continue to spend huge amounts of money managing an increasingly out of control crisis." Judging from the comments so far, there seems to be a lot of emotion involved in them. I haven't read the first work by Marx, but my sense is his work had a thread of anger running through it. In Plato's Republic, the tripartite soul(Greek "psyche") consists of the appetitive part (compared to a multi-headed beast), a spirited, honor-loving part associated with the emotion of anger (compared to a lion), and the rational part (compared to a human being). It depicts the soul dominated by the appetitive part being like an ape or monkey. To use the same line of thought, I think Marx's soul may have been dominated by the spirited part, which could be compared to a manticore (a beast with the body of a lion and the face of a human). Capitalism, on the other hand, is dominated by the appetitive part. Also it's pointed out in the Republic that unlimited acquisition of wealth results in wars (due to needing more land/resources) and health problems (due to overindulgence). I could say more, and I know my comment is somewhat unfocused, but if you keep ignoring the foundations of these issues, you're not going to be able to fix the problem. Remember in A Christmas Carol (yes, I know Charles Dickens didn't "walk on water"), how the Spirit of Christmas Present showed Scrooge the two children, Want and Ignorance? I see a generation of un- or under-educated children coming up that has been given a bill they never could have or would have agreed to. How do you think they must feel? What should they do? |