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Yup, I do.
I think the economy of scale means a rich big country could solve homelessness and poverty way easier than a small Nordic country. We'd just need a bigger investment from the wealthy in taxes.
For people that want to read more about solutions, I'd definitely check out Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond.
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond discusses low-income urban housing, and his research is in line with your experience.
Its a really rough situation when you're behind on rent and your plumbing gets fucked up (in a unit that is already not up to code). You have very little leverage with the landlord, because if you were to go to the local government, you would effectively be evicting yourself, and you obviously can't afford a new place. So you end up having poor people living in horrendous conditions without basic things like clean water (or water at all).
Even though you're not paying full rent, the situation is still in the landlord's favor because, due to the unit not being up to code, the landlord would otherwise not be getting any money at all.
I highly recommend Desmond's book. It does a really good job explaining how housing keeps poor people poor, among other things.
A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America (yes I know the title is a bit cringy) actually works through this in rather solid, data-backed detail.
Of course any individual has the possibility of being convinced or shifted from their position, but on a large-scale the boomer generation has caused, and are still causing, a LOT of damage due to actions of mass-sociopathy.
Hopping off this comment, I'd also reccomend the book "Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy" by Robert H. Frank
https://www.amazon.com/Success-Luck-Good-Fortune-Meritocracy-ebook/dp/B017I2M8ZC
Book you might find intriguing, "Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality" by Don Watkins
Here's an amazon link:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015CKO1DY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
I read this book a few months ago.
The Sociopathic Generation.
His points about how it came about applies to every generation that primarily had a top down one way communication system including mine Gen-X.
Maybe especially mine, as our original name was "the latch key kids"... but then the Boomers were known as "the Me Generation"...
Feel free to get from local store as I did..
Bruce Cannon Gibney talks about that in "A generation of Sociopaths - how the baby boomers betrayed America", basically the pension funds will run out of money sometime in the mid-2030's.
So that is another problem to consider.
You are asking whether success = hard work, which if true, implies that one can be rightfully proud of what they achieved through such hard work.
You may find this book interesting. It discusses how no matter how hard you work, there are (almost always) several others who have worked hard as you have, are as talented as you are, but were not as lucky as you are - which is why they could not become as successful as you might have become.
One's achievements are almost always aided by luck - and therefore not really something they should be feeling too proud about!
…Said the person to the social worker lol 😝
This is a whataboutism but sure man. There’s books on books about what a world without police would look like, The end of policing for example.
Thanks, this is more of what I was looking for.
I also found this. https://www.amazon.com/Case-Free-Market-Healthcare-ebook/dp/B08683LZP9
Dont know if it's any good though, I'll pick up your book too.
Have you read the book "The End of Policing"?
You might like it.
Disregard the people dissuading you, all they seem to have is nothing but bad faith arguing anyways.
Aside from that, your comment is correct, well done.
Rodney King's beating is was a catalyst for reform of the LAPD and broader discussion of police violence. The actions of the police were not considered reasonable and they were charged.
George Floyd, Breonna Taylor were murdered in cold blood. No charges, no reform, no discussion of police violence, instead there was discussion about "looting" and "antifa/BLM terrorists". The actions were blamed on "poor training" (which basically implies the actions were reasonable under the instructions they received).
And not actually, boomers did quite the opposite... A book that might be interesting to you: https://www.amazon.com/Generation-Sociopaths-Boomers-Betrayed-America-ebook/dp/B01HZFB7GI and a brief summary: http://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/syndicated/from-greatest-generation-to-racist-generation-how-baby-boomers-betrayed-future-generations/
> Wait why should public schools compete schools compete when they're all funded by the same organization, we the people.
Guaranteeing funding for those public schools even when they do a terrible job, and in fact people urging increased funding to bad schools, is exactly why those terrible schools are so terrible.
> Seems like a great way to allow rich people to bus their kids to a better school, leaving poorer kids in the lurch.
The beneficiaries of school choice policies are generally poor students. Rich people can get good schooling for their kids regardless of whatever policies you want to put into place to stop them.
> What I want is a national per capita spending mandate on all public schools. No more of this being tied to property tax bullshit.
The problem in education is not that not enough money is being spent. Many terrible schools already spend more per student than tuition to very good private schools cost. More guaranteed spending would not fix the problem. In fact I think it would just make it worse.
There's a very good book, The Beautiful Tree, that compares public schooling in the third world to a fascinating phenomenon of low cost private schools. These are "low cost" in the sense that they serve people who are near the world poverty line of living on $1.90 per day, not American poverty. In some cases the schools are actually illegal. And yet the education researcher who wrote the book conducted testing of these schools and found that they do better than the better funded, 'free', public alternative. And, hey, the Kindle edition is only ~$1.90 on Amazon.
The Case for Free Market Healthcare
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08683LZP9
FREE until September 10th
> Healthcare in America is a volatile topic generating contentious debates. Some of the questions that arise are:
>*Should there be a universal healthcare system?
>*Should every American be forced to buy healthcare insurance?
>*What should be done about the un-insured?
>*Should states be allowed to run their own healthcare systems or should the federal government step in and exert national control?
>In America, any healthcare delivery system must be respectful of the dignity of man. It must respect the property rights of those engaged in its delivery. It must place the patient and their doctor at the center of the decision-making process, and it cannot, under any circumstances, allow external forces to decide who receives and who does not receive treatment.
>The future directions laid out in The Case for Free Market Healthcare are largely unaddressed by the American press, political leaders, or policymakers, yet integral to our nation's continued well-being in the fullest sense of the word.
Read this book, it's time for the police to go away.
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Textbook example of why Trump is the quintessential Boomer president. Shout out to:
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I completely agree with you. Read this book and it will confirm your thoughts completely. Fuck the boomer generation. As an actual Millennial (age 36 and graduated HS in 2000 at the Millenium) and not the 20-something Media shit talked Meillenial, I still have more respect for people my age and younger who are trying to make a living in the environment our parents generation ruined for us in the pursuit selfishness and greed.
A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HZFB7GI/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o00_?ie=UTF8&psc=1
> But what happens when the CEOs of a company lets call it AT&T take the tax cuts and by back the stock in the company for themselves I just found this out today so their already stating it. This is what happens every time. Thanks for your perspective but I don't think any of this is going to help and if they take my social security away and medicaid which is what Paul Ryan wants to do next I am going to to fucking leave this country fuck it! I did get that corporate tax wrong it went from 35 to 21% that will starve the country and the government from doing what needs to be done for its people. Sounds like your a boomer I just want to commend your generation on screwing over this country leaving nothing left for further generations. Heres a christmas present for you to read if you like form me to you. https://www.amazon.com/Generation-Sociopaths-Boomers-Betrayed-America-ebook/dp/B01HZFB7GI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1514010148&sr=8-1&keywords=baby+boomers+a+generation+of+sociopaths
Hiya, welcome to homeschooling. I read this recently and found it very insightful https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B072F9VRZP/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
And I'm currently reading "free to learn" by Peter Gray, I will update you on that if you like, once I've finished.
I've also just written a blog post on my blog that talks about active learning, which you may or may not find interesting: http://zobotics.tech/make/2017/10/23/active-learning-with-robots-in-schools/
Edmond Morris' "The Rise Of Theodore Roosevelt" (about TR's life before the presidency) is one of the most entertaining and interesting biographies of all time.
I recently discovered my love reading a book called, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. It basically covers his entire life. He is amazing. For those who are curious, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004DEPH3E/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1