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Money has become the main objective, and it's poisoning us. Money is a means to an end, not the end itself. The nation (any country) needs to have human goals

• aloisdg 6y ago
  That why we cry when countries are compared by GDP...
• Cthulhu_ 6y ago
  And I want to say that's fine, but it's the methods involved. Recently, a LOT of decisions have been made that (to me, armchair internet guy) seem to be aimed at short-term gain. Like Brexit, the people benefiting most from it are already well settled, they're working on their short- to mid-term plan to earn a lot of money before retiring to their private island or estate or whatever. They live outside of the negative consequences of their decisions. Meanwhile, the rest of the population will have to suffer through the consequences for the foreseeable. Tl;dr, policy optimizing for short term individual gain instead of long term sustainable gain. And the long term gain would be so much more better as well. All of the countries currently under a short term gain capitalist regime could be so much better for their inhabitants. Wealth, socialist policies, comfort, safety, stability, etc is all in reach. But instead the people at the top - who already live a very comfortable and privileged life so they don't see and never will see the problem - choose short term personal gain for them and their 1% friends.
• m12k 6y ago
  "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"