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These companies are despicable, for sure, but they couldn't exist without a long line of poor suckers. Both parties are clearly at fault in different ways, but
by brandonbloom 11y ago
These companies are despicable, for sure, but they couldn't exist without a long line of poor suckers. Both parties are clearly at fault in different ways, but we can fix the problem without ignoring the poor or inventing significant new and complex laws to clamp down on bad actors: We invest in education.
When we have another sub-prime style meltdown we need to bail the economy out of, we're going to be wishing we invested in our schools and added basic life skills such as personal finance to the lesson plans. It's certainly cheaper to bailout schools than financial institutions.
Anything else will fix a symptom, not cure the disease.
- nsxwolf 11y agoHow many times can someone make this mistake? It sounds like a good lesson the first time it happens. At some point, you learn to go on Craigslist and get a decent used couch (and fumigate it for bedbugs). Having classes to teach people this in public schools sounds really condescending. Poor people can't be so stupid that they can't even learn from their own mistakes.
- brandonbloom 11y agoMany people do learn from their first mistake like this, but 1) there are always more fools and 2) for many, it's unrecoverable As for the condescension: let kids test out. We really ought to abolish this entire notion of a class moving between grades together at the same pace, it's arcane.