Re:Most Americans don’t have enough assets to withstand 3 mo...
by BLKNSLVR on Thursday August 06, 2020 @11:53PM
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> Combine that with a system that can be brutal if you don't have the means
And there's the crux of it. "The system", when it's working towards a sustainable civilisation, must provide some level of protection for those who don't have the ability to make good decisions. Scammers and advertising as one example. Regulation and fines that are enforced and sufficiently discouraging.
It's too easy to profit off the bottom end.
Finding where protections intersect with personal freedoms / responsibility is the perpetual impossibility.
And there's the crux of it. "The system", when it's working towards a sustainable civilisation, must provide some level of protection for those who don't have the ability to make good decisions. Scammers and advertising as one example. Regulation and fines that are enforced and sufficiently discouraging.
It's too easy to profit off the bottom end.
Finding where protections intersect with personal freedoms / responsibility is the perpetual impossibility.