Rex Murphy preaching to the choir
(nationalpost.com)
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Show me another system that has provided more economic mobility than the capitalist system.
I think you equate poor with helpless. I left home at 16 with nothing - only the clothes on my back. I paid for my own education and my own home by working hard and not being a lazy shit.
The problem today isn't the economic system - it's the legions of youth that have been raised by middle class boomers who think that wealth just falls from the sky the second they graduate.
Life is about choices and responsibility. If you make poor choices and are irresponsible, you suffer the results.
If you listen to the rhetoric of the progressives you would think that this was the hardest time to be alive. It's quite the opposite, even with the shit going on today.
I am not old (I am under 40), I have done all of this in the last 20 years.
There has always been and always will be a ruling class. Complaining about the rich makes you sound like a whiny communist.
You can bitch and moan about how mass immigration makes it harder to earn a living, but that is reality and whining cannot change that fact. I saw first hand what happened in Greater Van, it sucks. That said, I would rather live today than 100 years ago. The post WW2 living standard is gone and it ain't coming back.
I don't make a ton of money. But I am smart with what I do make, I live modestly and make good financial investments.My wife and I share 1 used car, and we live in a modest home in a smaller community. If you want to thrive in the world of tomorrow you will have to adapt. The good news is that humans have been adapting to far worse conditions over the last 99.999999% of human history.
Anecdotal but worth mentioning: I personally know a man who has never made more than $20/hour in his life. He has no spouse or kids, single income only. He is almost done paying off his house, has no debt and he's only 30 years old. Don't tell me it can't be done.