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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
All of it, I utterly reject all of the assertions that keep getting thrown around about how much worse it is today, I have an immeasurably better life than either my parents or grand parents.
I grew up without a TV or a car, and phone calls cost 10p a minute, 40 odd years later I live in a world where we all throw working TVs and computors and cell phones away because they arn't cool anymore, the homeless have cell phones for gods sake, I have a TV on my wall which I have no doubt is almost identical to Bill Gates's TV, the same applies to my phone, and computor.
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So your experience is the end all be all for everyone? Is that fair?
I'm not talking about toys. More people spend their money on crap today then when we were kids. I had 2 transformers and lego... TV's were $1000.00 for a 19inch screen and cars were bigger than our minivans today. Whatever!
Can a bus driver own a home today? I bet he could 20/30 years ago. I believe everyone in Canada should have the opportunity to OWN a home and by opportunity I mean if they don't want one then that's fine they can decline. A home is not an investment, having a home is a right. Not a fancy Trump home just something reasonable for a family. Do we really think housing materials make a house $300 000 and up to build? But because of housing price increases caused by banks over the last 10 years who can get a home? Unfortunately, most people can't afford a $300 000.00 and feed themselves or their kids (which the houses prices in-itself are ridiculous and ONLY benefit banks)
Savings in particular have been stolen in the USA causing MASSIVE world economy collapses. It isn't some insignificant glitch, it was a calculated system wide money grab by financial corporations. What happens when a corporation fails? Well if your phone breaks, or your computer stops working you probably can't get the warranty work, but if a financial corporation fails by the deliberate actions of investors and employees does that money go back to the people? Nope, it stays with the thieves who took it because of corporate law. Now MILLIONS are out of savings and homes and they want to do something about it...
Sorry I'm on my second BIG martini and if I'm not making sense I apologize. I'm trying not to be so lazy in posting like I was earlier because we really were not having discussions then and I prefer discussions to name calling and talking down to others.