I think you need to start questioning it. Economics likes to assume that people are rational actors and that certain things are constants when they're not. It likes to assume that what matters is the bottom line, not the people who might lose their jobs because a manager decided it was more profitable to outsource so they could pay some poor guy two dollars a day for his labor in a country with horrid labor laws. Or the people who get affected because they're a mining town and they lost thirty odd people because the company decided it'd be more profitable to cut a few corners on safety, because hey, no one will notice and nothing will happen anyway.
And look at the labor conflicts of the 19th and 20th centuries. Look at what workers fought for. Economics likes to pretend its all fine as long as the people who "matter", the people at the top, are making more money and amassing more wealth.
And they forget about the rest of us who have to make do with a living wage and scrape and save and get by and go to increasingly worse public schools because hey, don't you know the private sector can do it better? And oh look, that school isn't doing well, so we might as well cut more funding from education.
Not everyone has had the privilege of a private education. Not everyone has the privilege of a college education. Or being told that one day, you'll be one of those people on Wall Street who gets to dick over the little guy.
And yes, I'm bitter. I'm horribly bitter, because everyday in this country, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer and slowly but surely, the middle-class is sliding away. Top one per cent of the nation? owns 33 per cent of the nations wealth. Top ten per cent? 70% of the nation's wealth. And it keeps getting worse for us on the bottom.
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And look at the labor conflicts of the 19th and 20th centuries. Look at what workers fought for. Economics likes to pretend its all fine as long as the people who "matter", the people at the top, are making more money and amassing more wealth.
And they forget about the rest of us who have to make do with a living wage and scrape and save and get by and go to increasingly worse public schools because hey, don't you know the private sector can do it better? And oh look, that school isn't doing well, so we might as well cut more funding from education.
Not everyone has had the privilege of a private education. Not everyone has the privilege of a college education. Or being told that one day, you'll be one of those people on Wall Street who gets to dick over the little guy.
And yes, I'm bitter. I'm horribly bitter, because everyday in this country, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer and slowly but surely, the middle-class is sliding away. Top one per cent of the nation? owns 33 per cent of the nations wealth. Top ten per cent? 70% of the nation's wealth. And it keeps getting worse for us on the bottom.