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oh and what situation is that?
I've interacted with folks here who told me their situation, and often it was just a series of their own poor life-choices. like this guy who told me he was oppressed because he wanted to be a music producer and AI stole his job... right buddy, right. it's that AI stole your job and not that you wanted to enter a professor where nobody makes any money... and rather than going and learning a useful skill you just sit around whining on the internet how your life is unfair if only the 'revolution' would come you'll be a successful music producer...
Yeah man, clearly it's 'the boot on my neck' that I am not a successful movie star! I was the star actor in my high school drama club! Clearly it was facism that stopped be from being a Hollywood movie star!
except no, i wasn't that stupid. I went to college, studied useful things, and built myself up through working part time gigs and then got a full time job and 20 years later I'm comfortable because of... making good choices and not wasting my life chasing 'dreams'. pretty much like... most everyone I know who didn't have social connections or rich parents...
Maybe also study how society works. Not everybody can follow your lead.
litereally everybody? no, they can't.
but most people can become nurses or re-train to find jobs that pay well and are in high demand. it's fine if they don't want to do that, but the opportunity is there. the barriers to economic opportunity aren't as high as people on this site would like to believe, but they are more interested in writing novels about how awful their lives are and how everything is hopeless than doing anything pragmatic to improve their situation. or they are tech heads with big incomes who are upset they can't afford shiny new toys like gaming PCs because of data centers
If most people are nurses people will be desperate for a nurse job and wages will be as low as they can get.
Anybody can become rich but not everybody.
The trick is to make it easier for clever people to get a better job than it is for them to improve society as a whole. Resources can either go into boats and mansions, or healthcare for all.
yeah, that's how the economy works. demand and supply.
that's what's going on in tech right now, too many people chasing too few jobs.
there are no guarantees in life, so you have to adapt.
and a lot of people would be a lot richer if they had better economic habits.
define improving society? like a greater GDP? a greater per capital income? etc. also realize that your definition of 'better society' likely has nothing to do with someone else's.
healthcare for all sounds good on paper, but how can it be achieved if we already have a medical system that can't meet the needs of current demands? if we had medical for all and were able to provide decent service for all, we'd likely need to quadruple the number of healthcare workers...
it's easy to have high minded ideals about this stuff, it's much harder and murkier to get into the real world details and the real world consequences of 'improvement' in society.
if you passed medicare for all tomorrow, the medical system would collapse because it wouldn't be able to meet the demand. people would be waiting years for basic checkups, instead of months they wait now. my PCP books appointments six months in advance.
True, but society can be structured in a way that life is not 3 missed payments away from an existential crisis.
I think it takes much less but if only a quarter of the citizens get decent service then that's not a good society.
True. That's why the best have to think about it, instead of how to deny health insurance claims to increase quarterly profits.