To put the cherry on top of the shit Sundae this friend is also super Christian. Reads a couple of pages of the Bible every day. Must skip the parts about 'helping your fellow man'...
I feel profoundly sad because I know you’re correct. I’m sitting here thinking about what you’ve just said, and about how easily we’ll grab at any tiny straw to stay on that bottom rung. Maybe I’ve been around too long, or saw too much of post-war Europe, or have seen too much of a future that I could not have imagined. Regardless, I can say with certainty that we don’t need to defend the .1 of 1% in order to live an amazing life, or to be Christian, or to be concerned about staying on the bottom rung grateful to be there. Send him your article.
Critical thinking is in such short supply amongst Canadians in today’s world. In the USA there is a drought of critical thinking. I have to wonder what forced or convinced people to stop using their natural talents to figure shite out.
It feels a bit strange whenever someone works hard and struggles financially but still assumes that the system is fair.
Maybe it is just too hard to admit that the system is basically designed to extract value and to concentrate wealth and power. And the monetary system seems to sit right at the core of the problem.
Money nowadays is credit; it is basically created with the click of a keyboard by making digital accounting entries. But there appears to be two main problems: money is created on the basis of interest-bearing debt (so there is a systemic shortage and artificial scarcity of money, which keeps us in a collective state of perpetual debt); and credit is often misallocated for unproductive purposes (which contributes to unsustainable economic growth and price inflation, and erodes the value of our savings).
Sure, the system is rigged—but perhaps we can find some glimmer of hope if we work toward reforming the monetary/financial system while also building alternative exchange systems with new units of account, and then allocate interest-free credit for productive purposes within ecological limitations and material economic constraints. Maybe it’s worth trying...
I don't even know anybody that makes a $1M salary. I never did. And, I would have been happy with my $560,000. We have universal health care, a strong electrical grid and a Charter of Rights. Sure, there's always something to gripe about (mostly corrupt politicians feeding at the public trough), but all in all, our country is enviable. The billionaires can pay their share, and indeed, some of them have. You want a broken country? Try Haiti, or South Sudan for starters. Just saying.
To put the cherry on top of the shit Sundae this friend is also super Christian. Reads a couple of pages of the Bible every day. Must skip the parts about 'helping your fellow man'...
There you go. Brainwash someone that their hard work will be rewarded in a way that's impossible to confirm and you can get them to do anything.
I think they use the bible as cover. They know but they believe they will repent and God will forgive, so it doesn't really count!
I believe these are people who have little to no empathy for anyone but themselves and lack the ability to think critically.
I feel profoundly sad because I know you’re correct. I’m sitting here thinking about what you’ve just said, and about how easily we’ll grab at any tiny straw to stay on that bottom rung. Maybe I’ve been around too long, or saw too much of post-war Europe, or have seen too much of a future that I could not have imagined. Regardless, I can say with certainty that we don’t need to defend the .1 of 1% in order to live an amazing life, or to be Christian, or to be concerned about staying on the bottom rung grateful to be there. Send him your article.
Critical thinking is in such short supply amongst Canadians in today’s world. In the USA there is a drought of critical thinking. I have to wonder what forced or convinced people to stop using their natural talents to figure shite out.
It feels a bit strange whenever someone works hard and struggles financially but still assumes that the system is fair.
Maybe it is just too hard to admit that the system is basically designed to extract value and to concentrate wealth and power. And the monetary system seems to sit right at the core of the problem.
Money nowadays is credit; it is basically created with the click of a keyboard by making digital accounting entries. But there appears to be two main problems: money is created on the basis of interest-bearing debt (so there is a systemic shortage and artificial scarcity of money, which keeps us in a collective state of perpetual debt); and credit is often misallocated for unproductive purposes (which contributes to unsustainable economic growth and price inflation, and erodes the value of our savings).
Sure, the system is rigged—but perhaps we can find some glimmer of hope if we work toward reforming the monetary/financial system while also building alternative exchange systems with new units of account, and then allocate interest-free credit for productive purposes within ecological limitations and material economic constraints. Maybe it’s worth trying...
I don't even know anybody that makes a $1M salary. I never did. And, I would have been happy with my $560,000. We have universal health care, a strong electrical grid and a Charter of Rights. Sure, there's always something to gripe about (mostly corrupt politicians feeding at the public trough), but all in all, our country is enviable. The billionaires can pay their share, and indeed, some of them have. You want a broken country? Try Haiti, or South Sudan for starters. Just saying.