Re:Debt Worldwide Hits Record $86k per Person
by avip on Friday December 14, 2018 @04:58PM
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I find it difficult to reconcile this POV with environmental concerns. That elusive "debt" is 100% convertible to real resources (land, water). We have more debt because we consume too many things we don't need. How is that good?
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Re:Debt Worldwide Hits Record $86k per Person
by XorNot on Friday December 14, 2018 @09:13PM
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"excessive consumption" based interpretations of environmental policy have done more damage to the cause of environmentalism then anything else.
Re:Debt Worldwide Hits Record $86k per Person
by reirob on Saturday December 15, 2018 @06:40AM
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Can you please provide any evidence for this? I am really curious and interested.
At the same time I have the impression., independent what the environment-protection-movements want to achieve or actually did, the state of the planet did not improve.
Re:Debt Worldwide Hits Record $86k per Person
by aurailious on Friday December 14, 2018 @05:02PM
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Is education something we don't need?
Re:Debt Worldwide Hits Record $86k per Person
by reirob on Saturday December 15, 2018 @06:44AM
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Education free of charge and accessible to every child, in my opinion, is the greatest achievement in human history.
However education for which you need to get into debt is something that I really don't think is a progress. It is still better than no education or education for which you have to join a political party or a religion, but it is actually a step back from free education.
Re:Debt Worldwide Hits Record $86k per Person
by avip on Friday December 14, 2018 @05:09PM
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Education can be bought for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.
Re:Debt Worldwide Hits Record $86k per Person
by hopler on Friday December 14, 2018 @05:17PM
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The library was built by debt.