When I was a teen, I worked for $7.25/hr at a physically intensive job shelving books at an understaffed library. One day I told my coworker, who did same job as me, that I was planning on majoring in philosophy. "That's cool," he said, loading up a cart, "that was my major too!"
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But most of that survival was based around not getting eaten or making sure the harvest was big enough. This idea that in 2021, in the richest country on the planet, there are people who have to sacrifice their future so they dont end up on the streets is ridiculous.
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People can choose almost any career and live far better than virtually the entirety of humankind to date. You'll just make *more* by doing things that provide more value to others in society. And you think a society's prosperity might be correlated with that exact circumstance?
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No, being a philosopher was no problem we had slaaaanevermind.
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We have the technology to produce enough for everyone but our policies lag behind our capabilities. I think it's mostly a matter of making housing, food, healthcare and education really cheap and giving free money to the people instead of the banks.
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