| NintendoMan said: mafo- you presuming there are restaurants and things, believe me i have tried to get a job, the problem is i am restricted to a bus timetable for working hours as a bus is my only means of transport (so i cannot start till 8.20am as thats first bus that arrives in town from where i live, and the last bus leaves at 6pm so i can't work past then, unless my employers want me to sleep at work itself)also i am competing against cheaper students and the the recently unemployed who all have better references (i presume, seeing as they had jobs) and who have experience. anyway, back to capitalism - seeing as how i am at the extreme end of poverty. socialism would improve my life alot, however, i am guessing i am the exception the rule and as such i am unlikely to be convinced by capitalism in anycase. One thing that is true however is that capitalism has just as many bad points as good and a world without money would be a nicer world indeed. |
The ironic thing is it sounds like a lot of your problems are due to lack of Capitalism, not because of it.
You said your PM sold off all the flats. What were they doing with flats in the first place? In the US, the government owns very little housing, and the worst housing is all rental property. The US government does not give you a pool of properties to choose from, they give you money, and you spend it. This puts the power back into the consumer’s hands, and drives prices down. This is an example of the US using capitalism economically, to fund a politically social program. You would have no problems finding something close to work to live in. There are two trailer parks in the town I live in. To live in one, cost $150-$300 a month, and it’s worlds better then where you live (well, in the sense that you would be eating better), living in a trailer park is not the best, but it’s not bad either.
What you need, is more Capitalism, not less.
