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The primary cause of crime and social unrest is stressful jobs and inability to pay the bills. Get rid of that and see the general happiness explode.
by swayvil 8y ago
The primary cause of crime and social unrest is stressful jobs and inability to pay the bills. Get rid of that and see the general happiness explode.
- stcredzero 8y agoThe primary cause of crime and social unrest is stressful jobs and inability to pay the bills. In other words: perception of relative status. People who are happy in their jobs, have enough to pay the bills, who have personal dignity, and who get genuine delight from their everyman/everywoman pastimes have good perceptions of their relative status. When everyone is truly "middle class" in perception, society is healthy.
- DougN7 8y agoThe bills for what though? A car, iphone, internet, Netflix, attending movies? 100+ years ago people were happy without that. The reason we wouldn’t be today is our relatively poor way of life without them compared to those who have. I think the parent (grandparent) poster is correct.
- kthejoker2 8y agoWow, check your privilege. https://flowingdata.com/2018/02/08/how-different-income-groups-spend-money/ https://flowingdata.com/2018/02/08/how-different-income-grou... Housing, health care, food, and transportation make up close to 75% of of all household spending. And it's an even higher percentage the lower your income level. And on average people in our lowest income brackets spend more money than make - so really it's like they spend 100% of their income on necessities and then borrow for things like the Internet, travel to their uncle's funeral, repairing their broken heater, and so on. These are basic life functions, forget about an iPhone.