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> It's one thing to hold people accountable for unproductive choices Could you explain what this means? Isn't poverty ipso facto its own kind of accountability
by lapcat 4y ago
> It's one thing to hold people accountable for unproductive choices
Could you explain what this means? Isn't poverty ipso facto its own kind of accountability, i.e., a financial accounting?
I get the feeling, however, that a lot of people want to turn an amoral, economic system — free market capitalism, wherein supply and demand determine prices — into a moral system, wherein market forces essentially render judgments about the goodness or badness of individual participants, almost as if the so-called invisible hand of the market were the Hand of God.
- lr4444lr 4y agoFor example, someone who buys a new car on little to no money down shouldn't come complaining to me if he loses his job that he cannot find a new job because the car was repossessed, when he could have bought a used, maybe not very pretty one outright for cash and had a stable resource. But he should have a nearby bus that runs at all hours of the day on schedule to go interview when he realizes the error of his ways.
- lapcat 4y agoThis story sounds oddly specific... May I ask how many people come complaining to you? In any case, how you treat your family and friends is your own business, but I'm unclear how you're holding anyone accountable, or how this is relevant to poverty in general?