They make laws that claim to be for everybody but are only for people who aren’t rich or powerful. The rich and powerful can commit bribery, human trafficking, murder, and more without consequence but yet jail people for doing the same thing. It’s like parents who swear all the time but punish their children for swearing.
Don’t forget debt. I have to have an emergency fund but you just print money and spend it like there’s no tomorrow for years on end?
That’s because macroeconomics actually do work differently than microeconomics. The idea that a country should be run like a household is fallacy.
Maybe, in a perverse way, they aren’t all that different in the extreme. If I were a billionaire, I can take loans out against my securities basically forever. Governments can sustain a growing debt load forever if it grows more slowly than GDP.
Alas, I am not a billionaire.
A responsible company would have a 6 month emergency fund… Failure to plan ahead should not be my emergency
I’d argue that a responsible country should have something like a 10 year emergency fund. You never know when some natural disaster might come along and cripple a critical segment of your country’s production.
Instead they’ll just print more money and rob the poor and middle class through inflation… which drives stock prices up keeping the wealth of the wealthy fairly protected while the poors stay at the same level of income and have less proportional assets.
What’s the difference between $10 billion in printed money sitting in the federal reserve for such a fund and printing $10 billion dollars on the spot? Neither is affecting the economy until it leaves the federal reserve.
Not all government. Government is actually really good and useful. In the hands of psychopaths and grifters it becomes an edifice to tear down because it offers protections and rules.
Anyone who says “government is the problem” fundamentally does not understand the role of government in society.
The reason I said governments in general was I didn’t want to single out any particular country when lots of countries are like this. I agree that government isn’t inherently bad if done right.
Anyone who thinks a consistently good government that works in the benefit of the vast majority of a large population is possible fundamentally does not understand the role of psychopathy in leadership.
Have you considered all the invisible slavery and oppression a “good government” turns a blind eye against? They seem to emerge in places that stole the reat of the world blind some way or another until recently.
Some problems have no solution.
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First-past-the-post: I will elect out of touch politicians with only 39% of the vote.
Then the people will eat up all the poor excuses from the rich from implementing real democratic proportional representation.
Maybe someday the majority understands that they gain nothing if they just blindly obey.
Buddy, I hate to tell you this…but thats not in human nature.
What I have seen time and time again, is people are herded like sheep. A select few will take advantage of this, and herd the masses to their control.
Been like this for thousands of years.
