• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m not a fan of any overarching system, however capitalism is the one I, and I suspect most of the people reading this, live in. Therefore the best way of addressing the problems our society faces is to do so using the tools that our capitalistic system provides (such as regulation and oversight) rather than twiddle our thumbs waiting for some grand revolution to fix everything.

    Claiming that the only way to improve our situation is to completely overturn the system does nothing but promote inaction.

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      1 year ago

      Sitting my kids down and telling them that the only way to send them to college is to keep buying scratch-off lottery tickets.

      Angrily insisting that the only other alternative is to tear up the entire higher education system. Its either gambling on scratchers or doing a bloody uprising. No other alternatives.

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        1 year ago

        Silver lining, college is much less needed today than it was 10 years ago in many industries.

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          1 year ago

          Depends heavily on the career path. You can’t really be a registered nurse or a professional engineer or practice law without higher education. The service sector is a complete dead-end. Sales jobs are increasingly miserable and scammy. So much of the economy just… sucks. The jobs that aren’t completely soul-sucking tend to be the ones you need a degree to pursue.

      • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Just ignore all those times that regulation and oversight have happened and continue to happen in capitalist systems, right?

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            1 year ago

            Yes, you’ll have to constantly fight against that, but you’d have to constantly fight against greed and corruption in any system. The fact is that they wouldn’t be trying to overturn regulations if they didn’t exist in the first place.

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      1 year ago

      Good take. I think you could apply that logic to a lot of things, that accepting only extreme change is a recipe for nothing getting done.