12th April 2023, 9:12 AM
(This post was last modified: 12th April 2023, 9:14 AM by A Black Falcon.)
(6th April 2023, 11:37 AM)Dark Jaguar Wrote: Then we need to get a new one. This one's broken.
This is seriously, LITERALLY, the solution they are proposing. We need more people at the very bottom rung, homeless and helpless, for our economy to thrive. Or... OR... just tax the wealthy more. You know... that. The one thing they don't ever want to do. And by "they" I mean both parties, unfortunately. Outside of a few outliers (who are all solely in the democratic party), we've got a two party system that both think a good solution is "some people dying on the streets now and then", as if it's necessary, as if it's just an unavoidable fact of life, as if we can't do better.
And they wonder why my generation and younger are rejecting capitalism. This is why. If this system demands literal blood sacrifice, it's evil.
Economics is a complicated field and I definitely have never been any good at it, but there apparently is an economic case to be made for how the very low jobless rate and such help increase inflation, I guess. I don't think that the goal is for more people to be homeless though, but for more people to have to look for another job or something like that. I have trouble imagining how homeless people would be good for the economy... more like the opposite, right?
On the note of homelessness, in these last few years as housing prices have skyrocketed both for renting and for owning, it seems like more people are homeless now. It's pretty sad and has been a significant challenge for cities, there often aren't good solutions...
Taxing the rich significantly more is certainly a fantastic idea that we badly need to do. I don't know what that would do to the economy but given the massive wealth gap between rich and poor, it'd probably be overall good. People should be able to be rich if successful, but the disparity between rich and poor is much too large now.