3 ms·

Or, perhaps the added stress (both to them and home life) was more than they wanted and they decided to stop running and go for a nice easy walk in the park.

• anigbrowl 8y ago
  That'd be nice, but but raising a family on a package delivery driver's income doesn't seem like a walk in the park either. I don't want to go off on a political tangent but I've always been struck by how capitalism is presented as both the great multiplier of wealth and the remorseless driver of competition and unyielding bottom lines.
  • linuxftw 8y ago
    Capitalism works just fine, unfortunately the wealth of the middle class has been destroy through theft (taxes) and inflation. When the political class decided they can print money for their friends, the rest of us never had a chance. Now people cry for more of the same (socialism) where instead of just handing out cash to their friends, those friends are now in charge of more and more aspects of society. It defies logic.
  • billwear 8y ago
    Honestly, if we can ditch the myopic "quarterly perspectives," I think we can improve some, though the bottom's still gonna be what it is.
  • rchaud 8y ago
    > capitalism is presented as both the great multiplier of wealth and the remorseless driver of competition and unyielding bottom lines. It's presented that way because it's a philosophy rather than a science; it can't be tested in a controlled environment and it can have dramatically different results across countries and time periods. Try explaining the nuances and risks and watch people's eyes glaze over. It's just easier to say capitalism will solve everything, eventually. Don't try to understand how.