Re:Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds
by luckylion on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:25AM
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Materialism is substantially different from consumerism. It's fine to want material wealth, that's just a shortcut for "I want security".
> Are you saying there's noone in the US that is forced to work "until tired" to survive?
I'm talking about NW Europe. We have plenty of benefit systems that you can tap into. Our homelessness is heavily associated with mental illness and substance abuse, not poverty.
Being from a "European culture" I can tell you that it most definitely is not. Materialism is deeply encoded in our DNA, and in my opinion hoarding modern valuables is just the equivalent of our time to hoarding berries or furs or whatever else might be useful in the future. I think our production capacity ran away from us before our ability to adapt to excess developed.
> And really, nobody here is forced to work till they are tired.
I really just can't understand what this is supposed to mean. Are you saying there's noone in the US that is forced to work "until tired" to survive? Surely you can't be saying this.