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appalachiablue

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10. Appreciate your perspectives, very helpful. It's true that things are dog eat dog, cutthroat now
Thu Feb 26, 2015, 11:59 AM
Feb 2015

in order to get ahead and survive. But it's highly disruptive and ultimately destructive to life. Not that work was ever easier before, just that the savage, neoliberal, corporate profit motive and greed weren't so prominent, and there were employee benefits and things like normal work hours.

Bernie Sanders, Eliz. Warren and many others effectively point out the corrupted, ugly system we have now and are working hard to attack the systemic rot at the top, the oligarchic control. There's also much going on from the ground up, the roots. The economic system will crumble, it's simply not sustainable. Experts see that the economy will crash again, sooner than later because it's very fragile, top heavy and no real banking reforms were implemented after 2008, as intended- matters are that twisted.

What young people are experiencing now gives me much pain, it's so unfair, the student debt, harsh work, uncertain contract jobs or no work. It's all wrong. There must be change in the near future, all I can say. In the meantime, hang in there and try to enjoy your beautiful young lives.

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