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Human value - say it isn't so!! Sounds rather marvellous, heh?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)We can't have nutty ideas like these running around loose.
barbtries
(28,798 posts)a friend on the phone last night, who is fairly liberal (not as much as me), said that. we can't look like we're pushing socialism!! aargh
but they love their SS and their medicare right.
ProfessorPlum
(11,257 posts)lastlib
(23,239 posts)(ya gotta spell it right.)
TNNurse
(6,926 posts)bluescribbler
(2,117 posts)nt
TygrBright
(20,760 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)living wage job, and maybe some clean water?
Don't be greedy... (of course)
stillcool
(32,626 posts)give me some food, and then next thing you know I'll want water to wash it down.
Volaris
(10,271 posts)patphil
(6,180 posts)Initech
(100,079 posts)OMGWTF
(3,957 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)K&R
calimary
(81,300 posts)Thats the kind of society Id like to live in. One thats set up to benefit the greater good.
Farmer-Rick
(10,175 posts)Takket
(21,573 posts)Caliman73
(11,738 posts)The reality is that there are people who for whatever reason, are not competitive or driven by challenge. There will always be those people who are not driven to produce. I predict that the vast majority of people would continue to challenge themselves to have some kind of impact in the world, through creative means, or by inventing or building something regardless of whether it made them wealthy. The idea that people only do things because of money has been debunked over and over. Yes, there are people who are motivated by money and power, and greed. However, most people are driven by having their life mean something. We work for money because money buys food, pays for our housing, buys us things we need and some we want.
My wife and I think about what we would do if we won the Lottery, a few million dollars or even the big one. None of that fantasizing EVER includes doing nothing, being lazy on the couch. Mostly it is around starting organizations to help children in the community or continuing in school to finish our degrees and licenses to practice therapy or start an agency. We want to work for more than just having enough to eat or to pay off our student debt and mortgage, but those things are priority right now and keep us in the jobs we are struggling at.
MadDAsHell
(2,067 posts)If the loans are so overwhelming that they practically bankrupt people, why even issue them to begin with?
magicarpet
(14,154 posts).... them into bankuptcy. Vulture capitalism at its very finest.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)We humans have the power to destroy many life forms. We also have the power to preserve those life forms.
All life has value
I know the direction I would like to go.
The clock is ticking though, and we need to take action very soon.
Human life has value, all life has value.
Joe941
(2,848 posts)Blue Owl
(50,393 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,627 posts)Amishman
(5,557 posts)Which has never worked.
I am not a socialist, I want capitalism with limits on corporate greed. I do not want the government to take control or ownership of industries, in my experience as an IT contractor the public sector is really inefficient. I want capitalism which forces corporations to treat employee interests equal to those of shareholders and executives.
I want requirements that corporate dividends and stock buybacks must be matched with equal funds used for non-executive employee bonuses.
I want a progressive corporate tax rate.
I want better sick and vacation time standards.
I want laws requiring all non-executive pay to be indexed to inflation; an end to being denied a raise and ending up worse off from inflation.
I want executive compensation capped relative to the company's average wage.
I want a corporate alternative minimum tax based on their total assets.
I want a tax on offshored jobs. I want companies to have tax incentives to train and promote internally.
Luciferous
(6,081 posts)Progressive dog
(6,904 posts)as all of existing life has. This evolution was based on competition between and within species.. Life as we know it would not exist without competition.