The American Dream: An Endangered Ethos?
At Danielle DiMartino Booth's The American Dream: An Endangered Ethos -
Food, or what one is sustained on, a roof over ones head and the energy to heat it, should all be off limits from marketers, serial flippers, speculators and margin seekers. If these items had been taboo to speculators, we would not be in the current morass. Profiting from speculation on a necessity of life should be disincentivized.
There is a BIG difference between speculation which needs to be disincentivized and investment in the future which needs to be incentivized. Seek margin in video games, or cars, or stereos or durable manufacturing, etc. or by starting or investing in a business that produces tangible product or services, NOT financial instruments tied to the necessities of life.
It would greatly profit all of us to redirect our efforts towards investment in real economic activities, as opposed to profiteering from speculation based upon asset bubbles, the backs of others (the greater fools) and financialism.
In the only recorded violent act of one Christ, who flipped over the tables and destroyed the marketplace in the temple, where the money changers were double ending every deal and said...
"It has been a dream of being able to grow to fullest development as man and woman, unhampered by the barriers which had slowly been erected in the older civilizations, unrepressed by social orders which had developed for the benefit of classes rather than for the simple human being of any and every class." No more elegant words were ever written to ensure our ethos would never be endangered. And yet it is at risk of extinction today. It is high time we stand up for what is rightly ours and take back the American Dream for one and for all."Ever excellent and mental viagra. Musing... Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Homes are sticks and bricks where people live their lives and raise families. All have the right to earn that dream which should not be denied by greedy serial flippers or serial landlords.
Food, or what one is sustained on, a roof over ones head and the energy to heat it, should all be off limits from marketers, serial flippers, speculators and margin seekers. If these items had been taboo to speculators, we would not be in the current morass. Profiting from speculation on a necessity of life should be disincentivized.
There is a BIG difference between speculation which needs to be disincentivized and investment in the future which needs to be incentivized. Seek margin in video games, or cars, or stereos or durable manufacturing, etc. or by starting or investing in a business that produces tangible product or services, NOT financial instruments tied to the necessities of life.
It would greatly profit all of us to redirect our efforts towards investment in real economic activities, as opposed to profiteering from speculation based upon asset bubbles, the backs of others (the greater fools) and financialism.
In the only recorded violent act of one Christ, who flipped over the tables and destroyed the marketplace in the temple, where the money changers were double ending every deal and said...
"Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a den of robbers."Judas Priest, have we learned NOTHING in the 2000 years since?
"When you turn your own backyard into a major source of wealth, that's when the trouble starts." - TNNRelated: Quantum of Solace; Real Estate Speculation Tax; Nimby's, Flippers and What Would Jesus Do?
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