aquascoot wrote on Oct 14
th, 2024 at 5:28am:
it takes a village to raise a child
and if a child doesnt feel the warmth of the love of the other villagers
that child will burn down the village to feel that warmth
Correct, but your conception of "the village" is obsolete; in today's global economies and supply chains,
good government is vital to ensure well-functionig local economies in which the village can successfully raise the child.
This is wny you fall into Unsub's error, as I noted in my reply to him:
My contempt for your 'personal responsibility' mantra is extreme, indeed.
Poverty in rich countries is a choice of systemic political dysfunction, caused by obsolete flat earth neoclassical economics; there is no shortage of essential resources in the modern world.
Quote:being successful in business allows you the joy of mentoring the next wave of business people
if you are a chode, you despise the next wave of successful people and you will not help them
Your error: most small bunsiness fail....
Quote:and we have very few people who want to experience the joy of mentoring the next generation.
Nonsense, most parents are dedicated to the 'joy of raising the next generation; but macroeconomic dysfunction destroys the endevours of many eg the current cost of living crisis , and parents forced to raise their kids in cars (if they can hold it together enough to do that...)
Quote:people like moth think that a newly graduated naive 23 yo woke social worker is going to turn a 15 yo delinquents life around its not going to happen
You haven't asked her what her ideas re
positive community intervention actually are.
Obviously, social workers will be needed (unfortunately) to play a part in fixing dysfunctional families caused by systemic socio economic disadvatage; the current problem with 'woke' social workers is they operating in the disastrous politically entrenched 'welfare' system, which is really a
poverty industry, not a true welfare system based on universal abovepoverty participation in the economy (full employment)....don't tell mainstream fools like Bullock who believe in the voodoo of NAIRU, she will have a heart attack.
Quote:and older men who should be mentoring and assisting tend to be driving around in big caravans with "spending the kids inheritance" emblazened on the side.
a big F you to that 15 yo
Retired men who haved worked their entire lives, to experience some freedom in their retirement, not necessarily mentoring wayward kids from broken families.
Quote:or they tend to be chattering away for 8 years about trump.
society does not care about 15 yo wayward boys.
they expect the government to step in and fix it
Government is required to implement 'the common welfare', and to eradicate socio economic disadvantage, naturally self-interested individuals can't do it alone (in "the village").
Quote:when i say that aboriginal youth have gone backwards on 17 of the 19 parameters since the closing the gap iniative, anyone who was not a liar ( you know, like trump) would say this is a widening the gap iniative.
can we expect action?
no
And I have explained why: first step, sack Bullock and her merry band of obsolete 'scarcity' voodoo practioners of the 'dismal science'.
Quote:the vested interests wont act and the society is just used to taking and getting and being entitled.
while some are laughing all the way to the bank, and others are sleeping in the doorways of CBD buildings, and housing starts are going backwards (because housing is too expensive - the ultimate example of free market failure...)
Quote:until the community takes personal responsibility, there will be no progress
Your error: the
community's responsibility is manifested by government on behalf of the
common welfare, and is is separate from
personal responsibility of self-interested individuals seeking their own welfare in invisible hand markets.
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