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The hardness of heart in everyone and the system as we have largely become a self-centred, selfish society..it's all about me
You think that might have anything to do with the fact that everything in life has become a competition and a race, with performance metrics and comparisons?
SwissChap-
You think that might have anything to do with the fact that everything in life has become a competition and a race, with performance metrics and comparisons?
Sure. As well as the lies sold to make everyone consuming products, lifestyles etc in a vain attempt to fill the emptiness inside while at the same time making the rich richer!
Life has become horrific and completely detached from how we should live and our fear is being unable to exist if we do not conform, 'getting left behind' of 'getting ahead' justifies all kinds of wrongs and misery.
The 'race' is in large part due to the control of assets by a relative few and the existence of fractional reserve banking. A refusal by gov't to ever allow an elite to suffer a loss with the impact on real economy affecting everyone being the justification for bubble-blowing allowing asset prices to continually inflate ever further (and when the occasional hit happens, losses are socialised). Check out multiples of salary for the cost of ownership of a home for example from say 40y ago to now..
Competition in 'free' markets as an argument for efficiency and advancement is fallacious as it leads to a massive replication of effort and waste of resource. Capitalism is inherently inefficient.
welpeur
I think there are valid points which are essentially caring about other people whether that be family, local community etc.
Essentially there are three problems 1
The metropolitisation of wealth and opportunity (also internationalisation of) due to the policies pursued and what I consider to be a precarious mis-structuring of the economy over decades
The polarisation of wealth and dysfunction in any re-distribution of such ('trickle-down' being a bullshit concept propagated by the elite)
The hardness of heart in everyone and the system as we have largely become a self-centred, selfish society..it's all about me