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(My
Response to someone on an mans negative effects on the earth,
environment, economy, etc.
Are you sure you want to know???
To be honest
it's a very immature way of thinking. Not because the facts are
entirely wrong, but it definitely suffers from tunnel vision.
For one, the concept of growth is relative. It doesn't
necessarily have to be something that requires land. One of the
biggest saving graces of economic growth,(if there is such a
thing), has been the growth of technology. And that is something
that can grow forever. When it comes to natural resources, the
limitations of the "ignorant" don't see the possibilities of
those limitations. Humans have evolved to where they are because
they adapt. When a resource becomes low, something is found to
replace it. Whether it be technology, or just another natural
process.
The reality of
all this is simple, we have become a nation of spoiled brat
kids. In this case the ones that choose to be the "goody two
shoes", for lack of a better word, focus on how were all screwed
because from their point of view nothing works and therefore
there are no solutions. They spend incredible amounts of time
and energy explaining how someone else is at fault, how that if
we continue to do tomorrow what we do today we will all die.
They base this on a timeframe that generally consist of their
lifetime. Very short-term thinking with little experience to
understand the nature of things.
That said, our
financial system is in fact totally screwed!!!!!!!!! It's not
the politicians, it's not the bankers, it's not the corporate
CEOs that look like a Monopoly man, it's YOU!!! Oddly the same
people that fail to recognize this say they're the one taking
responsibility. How many people have a loan on their car or
house? Why? Seriously ask yourself that question. Because people
have been convinced through (their) own greed that 7/10 will
manage to continue to work to pay off that loan and all the
while they get to have what they want instead of waiting for
it!!! (at what turns out to be 2x the price). THE GREED OF
PEOPLE!!! If everyone quit taking loans out, the banks would go
bye-bye overnight!!!!!!!! (you know the same people you say are
responsible for destroying the economics). PEOPLE, made Walmart
the number one retailer in the country knowing full well at the
time of their main growth everything was coming from China. This
killed the American production engine. But why, because someone
save $.10 on some small widget they didn't need. Because they
saved five dollars and got what seemed to be the exact same
thing. People are the ones that make money. Who they give it to
is their decision, (with the exception of the government who
simply take it) and who are people blaming????, The people and
companies that THEY are voluntarily giving their money to. Not
the government that's taking and enforcing the system which
happens to be the exact same system everyone's complaining
about!!!!!
Capitalism is
not the enemy. Money is not the enemy. Money is only a transfer
of value from one thing to another. That's it!!! Capitalism and
money are tools. You can use them to build and create, or you
can use them to destroy and cripple. The key to everything is
the people!!!! Granted, most of them are only a few points above
retarded this in this day and age, which is why education needs
to be a major priority. Problem is, our educational system is
run by the very government who is enforcing the insanity. So
now, we have a new generation who are being taught or being
persuaded to see that choice, capitalism, money, free market,
independence, beliefs, individualism, and anything else that
makes life worth living, is the problem!!!!!!!!! It's
insane!!!!!!!!
What I find most
infuriating about it, is a system is so good at manipulating the
people that it is managed to convince them that they are being
manipulated by what they're trying to get rid of!!!!!! Not what
is tearing them away from it!!!! It literally is amazing!!!!
Ignorance is the enemy. Stupidity is the enemy. Greed is the
enemy. And all three are only dangerous in your home! If
everyone did the right thing, for the right reasons, the rest of
the world would cater to it especially if it was fueled by
capitalism. Capitalism is simply the right for the individual to
choose what they want and by who. You take that away, you take
choices away. This is not a complicated system. It worked very
well and always has. Every civilization that has fallen due to
economics has always been due to corruption and bad decisions.
We currently
have a government that is still dumping $50 billion a month into
our economy for no other reason to keep it afloat. They keep the
people thinking that the man they put into office is doing a
good job. To make the investors feel, that Wall Street will
continue to go up, to make all those people who know how to do
simple math managed to feel "uncertain" of what common sense is
telling them which is simply, economics is simple math and the
math doesn't add up these days! I'll be first to admit that were
doomed, but it's not because of the bankers, or the
corporations, or the environment, or a lack of resources. We are
screwed because we as a people have become stupid!!!!!!
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