Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 6:14 pm
Advocate wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 2:11 pm
There are many needs simply not being met because there is no profit in it. Old people, for instance, are often left with no support, even those who were promised a pension from their own work. Making retirement care a self-managed investment only exacerbates the problems. People's families don't necessarily have enough resources to help and regardless of how hard you work and plan, it can happen to you too. Almost everyone is only one unforeseeable accident or legal problem away from destitution.
This is codswallop.
The West is far more affluent than any society in history...and not merely in the top 10%, but in the middle class particularly. Even the lower classes here are immeasurably richer than the poor classes in Honduras, or the Philippines, or Zimbabwe. You have no idea about what poverty is...not a clue, obviously.
At least the elderly, generally, are cared for far more in honduras, the phillipines, and zimbabwe.
This one has NO idea about who is Truly rich.
Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 6:14 pm
As for our elderly, the most staggering fact is that we
have them.
Who and/or what is the 'we' here?
Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 6:14 pm
We have lots of them because life is long and healthy here, and living long is expensive.
If this one believes that about 100 years is long, then this is another example of just how closed and narrowed viewed the human beings, in the days when this was written, really were.
Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 6:14 pm
And our middle class is spending their money on second cars, big screen TV's, alcohol and cigarettes, credit card debt and swimming pools, instead of saving for retirement, or caring for their own elderly.
Who and/or what is the 'our' here referring to?
Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 6:14 pm
Here, families don't take care of their own elderly, but dump them into expensive homes and hospitals, in order to keep their cash flow going.
Where is 'here', and, as can be seen and proven, 'these people', in those days, actually "dumped" their elderly instead of Truly loving, and caring for, them.
Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 6:14 pm
And then we whine, and pretend that our old people are unsupported? And we want to tax other people, as if it's their responsibility to compensate for our own lack of responsibility.
It would be funny if it were not so completely tragic.
So, does this one KNOW WHY 'they' do this sort of thing, 'here'?