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56% of Americans can't afford a $1,000 emergency expense: We are 'living in a paycheck-to-paycheck nation,' money expert says (www.cnbc.com)

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Those are real problems, yes, but ones that can be alleviated at a systemic level. A consumerist system itself is also to blame.

Within the current system, you're correct, but blaming personal choices over the faulty system, which does far greater damage, is misplaced.

[–] scoobford@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I disagree, I think an entirely planned economy is impractical, and if people with no financial education have to exist in a market economy, they're going to do things like this.

To me, the solution here is to fix our education system, make home economics mandatory for all pupils, AND pursue systemic reform to halt the war on the middle class.

I'll be honest, unless they literally had so much money they didn't know what to do with it all, I think they'd engage in the same patterns. And no matter how fair we make our system, normal people will never live like Saudi princes.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

I didn't mention a planned economy, just not a consumerist one. Still, why would a planned economy not be practical?

The issue with just making home econ mandatory is that you see it as an educational problem. The thing is, even if you taught your friends everything, would they suddenly be "enlightened?" Maybe one or two, but not everyone, and that's due to rampant consumerism brought on by large Capitalists.

Side note: "middle class" doesn't exist, that's just the upper end of working class or the lower end of Petite Bourgousie or perhaps the Labor Aristocracy. Class isn't determined by income, but by relation to production, because the common thread of class is class interest.

I'm not advocating for obscene wealth for everyone, but a restructuring along worker-centric lines, rather than owner-centric like it currently is.