Parents used to buy clothes and food for their children. Now parents make energy providers, insurance companies, banks and supermarkets richer and kids are deprived of what is rightfully theirs.
Xercen on
Imagine the stressors if you are a young child living in a poor household. I’d imagine that having that lived experience will either motivate your child into somebody who is highly motivated and overcomes adversity with ease OR somebody who blames society for everything that has happened to them. In both cases, I’d imagine you’d need to have more psychopathic tendencies to even survive in a hostile environment – in same way that being extremely wealthy also reduces your empathy as you cannot emphasize with others not in the same social/financial situation as yourself.
It’s hard to emphasize with others when nobody helped your family and you were left to starve and fend for yourself.
If we would like to create and live in a civilized society, then we need to make sure society will make decisions to create happy, healthy and morally good individuals. This applies to both the government and all of us as individuals.
ParticularCoach1410 on
Not surprised, given how the last government put saving money ahead of people’s well-being… and let’s not forget how they funnelled cash into big businesses and their buddies… Hopefully we can move forward as a country to stop it increasing.
Rich people simply have too much money. Wealth buys you political power and rich people have too much of both.
I know many people will disagree, citing stuff about capital investment etc, but the fact is that rich people having too much money is bad for society- that’s it.
Having too much money has meant that their interests are overrepresented and over-prioritised in society. This produces bad societal outcomes such as child poverty.
This is a logical utilitarian argument that follows naturally from looking at how the main parties manifestos and political campaigns are formed. They look out for the interests of the rich over other, more desperate, social groups due to the overbearing political influence that is available to the rich as a sociopolitical group.
All we talk about is crap like GDP, which seems to have so little bearing on the prosperity of the average person these days; while we stay silent about the underclass of people suffering from lack of societal resources.
It is simply not in society’s interest for inequality to be as high as it has been since the 80s. It is not in our interests to have the interests of the wealthy be prioritised beyond sense- that ship has long since sailed.
We prioritise the interest of the wealthy over children in poverty, perhaps it’s time we actually started talking about why that is. One has the wealth to simply solve all of the problems of the other, yet our political system hardly even seems to care.
Easily prepared to be downvoted for this but fr it’s not exactly a radical opinion that rich people have too much money and children in poverty have too little. It is something we can actually address…
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Parents used to buy clothes and food for their children. Now parents make energy providers, insurance companies, banks and supermarkets richer and kids are deprived of what is rightfully theirs.
Imagine the stressors if you are a young child living in a poor household. I’d imagine that having that lived experience will either motivate your child into somebody who is highly motivated and overcomes adversity with ease OR somebody who blames society for everything that has happened to them. In both cases, I’d imagine you’d need to have more psychopathic tendencies to even survive in a hostile environment – in same way that being extremely wealthy also reduces your empathy as you cannot emphasize with others not in the same social/financial situation as yourself.
It’s hard to emphasize with others when nobody helped your family and you were left to starve and fend for yourself.
If we would like to create and live in a civilized society, then we need to make sure society will make decisions to create happy, healthy and morally good individuals. This applies to both the government and all of us as individuals.
Not surprised, given how the last government put saving money ahead of people’s well-being… and let’s not forget how they funnelled cash into big businesses and their buddies… Hopefully we can move forward as a country to stop it increasing.
[https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/child-poverty-statistics-causes-and-the-uks-policy-response/](https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/child-poverty-statistics-causes-and-the-uks-policy-response/)
[https://www-cdn.oxfam.org/s3fs-public/file_attachments/cs-true-cost-austerity-inequality-uk-120913-en_0.pdf](https://www-cdn.oxfam.org/s3fs-public/file_attachments/cs-true-cost-austerity-inequality-uk-120913-en_0.pdf)
Rich people simply have too much money. Wealth buys you political power and rich people have too much of both.
I know many people will disagree, citing stuff about capital investment etc, but the fact is that rich people having too much money is bad for society- that’s it.
Having too much money has meant that their interests are overrepresented and over-prioritised in society. This produces bad societal outcomes such as child poverty.
This is a logical utilitarian argument that follows naturally from looking at how the main parties manifestos and political campaigns are formed. They look out for the interests of the rich over other, more desperate, social groups due to the overbearing political influence that is available to the rich as a sociopolitical group.
All we talk about is crap like GDP, which seems to have so little bearing on the prosperity of the average person these days; while we stay silent about the underclass of people suffering from lack of societal resources.
It is simply not in society’s interest for inequality to be as high as it has been since the 80s. It is not in our interests to have the interests of the wealthy be prioritised beyond sense- that ship has long since sailed.
We prioritise the interest of the wealthy over children in poverty, perhaps it’s time we actually started talking about why that is. One has the wealth to simply solve all of the problems of the other, yet our political system hardly even seems to care.
Easily prepared to be downvoted for this but fr it’s not exactly a radical opinion that rich people have too much money and children in poverty have too little. It is something we can actually address…