[derekjdanserl]

Keep criticizing them but what do you expect them to be doing instead? Dropping pennies into a 401K after giving half their paycheck to their landlord and the other half to student loans?

In the absence of hope, people gamble because the glimmer of a possibility gets them through the day. Whether it’s poor people buying lottery tickets or 19 year olds taking their father’s job at half the pay and no pension, you can’t suck all the hope out of a society and expect a rational outcome.

[marderfarker2]

Maybe it is an indication of overpopulation and too much automation. Too many people but too few jobs to go around.

[derekjdanserl]

“Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.” —John Stuart Mill, 1848

There is always work to be done to reproduce society, but if reproducing society doesn’t turn a profit for the owning class, the work doesn’t get done and society doesn’t get reproduced.

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