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We need a completely new system of culture in the US - nothing important gets taken care of, the most important roles for peoples well being and enrichment like

We need a completely new system of culture in the US - nothing important gets taken care of, the most important roles for peoples well being and enrichment like schoolteachers or nurses are treated like garbage. Ask any teacher or any nurse about what it’s like to do their jobs.

im_down_w_otp 4y ago
With the MBA-ification takeover of American society that seemed to start in the early 80's and reach socio-political bipartisan consensus by the mid 90's it has since seemed to me like there's been a significant and persistent priority inversion problem in most of how the US organizes its economy, industry, and investments. The most concise way I can describe it is "pathological myopia".
- socialismisok 4y ago
  You can trace it back to Reagan, basically. Which in turn led to the fetishizing of capital you describe.
- taurath 4y ago
  Corporations and the investment class took all the money out of the economy, and now they're about to lose it as their balance sheets dry up. It is the people who will suffer the most. It worked out okay when we had extreme levels of corporate control relative to government aka the 1950s. Privatization has made everything worse. Conservatives are tied chained to the idea that corporations provide a ladder for people but they just straight up don't, its not profitable and they can spend money on stock buybacks instead. Our economic culture is completely sick, nobody is paying attention to almost any of the real problems. A literal depression seems like the only thing that will ever make change happen at the moment.
stjohnswarts 4y ago
We spend more than Europeans but get way less in return. We should just wholesale copy a system that is working like in Finland and scrap what we have, as it's not working.
- midoridensha 4y ago
  >We should just wholesale copy a system that is working like in Finland and scrap what we have, as it's not working. That's impossible. Americas have a pathological amount of NIH syndrome: they are utterly and completely unable, as a society, to look at anything outside their borders and learn from it.
- theironhammer 4y ago
  It's administrators who eat up the money. Teachers in Canada earn higher salaries than USA yet spend less per student that USA does.
- taurath 4y ago
  Maybe its not about economics and cost and more about priorities as a culture. Start here: * Teachers should be paid a living wage * Teachers should get overtime pay for working overtime * All schools should be funded such that there are equal standards of teaching, classrooms, recreational activities, etc for the same size school throughout the country * Nurses should be paid a living wage * Nurses should be maximized at 50 hours a week with no shift going longer than 12 hours. All of those things seem literally impossible given the systems that are in place right now, but to me they're just like basic common sense, and lets not forget when the systems we have were set up nearly all of them existed. We've just backslid from the time we were the only country that was left functioning after WW2.

im_down_w_otp 4y ago

With the MBA-ification takeover of American society that seemed to start in the early 80's and reach socio-political bipartisan consensus by the mid 90's it has since seemed to me like there's been a significant and persistent priority inversion problem in most of how the US organizes its economy, industry, and investments. The most concise way I can describe it is "pathological myopia".

socialismisok 4y ago
You can trace it back to Reagan, basically. Which in turn led to the fetishizing of capital you describe.
taurath 4y ago
Corporations and the investment class took all the money out of the economy, and now they're about to lose it as their balance sheets dry up. It is the people who will suffer the most. It worked out okay when we had extreme levels of corporate control relative to government aka the 1950s. Privatization has made everything worse. Conservatives are tied chained to the idea that corporations provide a ladder for people but they just straight up don't, its not profitable and they can spend money on stock buybacks instead. Our economic culture is completely sick, nobody is paying attention to almost any of the real problems. A literal depression seems like the only thing that will ever make change happen at the moment.

stjohnswarts 4y ago

We spend more than Europeans but get way less in return. We should just wholesale copy a system that is working like in Finland and scrap what we have, as it's not working.

midoridensha 4y ago
>We should just wholesale copy a system that is working like in Finland and scrap what we have, as it's not working. That's impossible. Americas have a pathological amount of NIH syndrome: they are utterly and completely unable, as a society, to look at anything outside their borders and learn from it.
theironhammer 4y ago
It's administrators who eat up the money. Teachers in Canada earn higher salaries than USA yet spend less per student that USA does.
taurath 4y ago
Maybe its not about economics and cost and more about priorities as a culture. Start here: * Teachers should be paid a living wage * Teachers should get overtime pay for working overtime * All schools should be funded such that there are equal standards of teaching, classrooms, recreational activities, etc for the same size school throughout the country * Nurses should be paid a living wage * Nurses should be maximized at 50 hours a week with no shift going longer than 12 hours. All of those things seem literally impossible given the systems that are in place right now, but to me they're just like basic common sense, and lets not forget when the systems we have were set up nearly all of them existed. We've just backslid from the time we were the only country that was left functioning after WW2.