afstandopleren said:
Let's see...
-American house market
-the loan system in several parts of the world
-sport people being paid 3 million or more for kicking some balls (soccer being a glaring example)
-bank directors and the like swallowing up all the money they can through 'bonuses'
-The change of currency in Europe (I want my Gulden back) that caused prizes to double up to 2,2x
-I remember something about the British ministers getting themselves some free treats from the money paid by the citizens
Do I need to go on?
Yes, it could have been prevented...but now that it is happened, I don't believe it can be fixed. Good thing I'm not attaching to much value to my materialistic possessions.
- The American house market is due to Sub Prime Lending.
- Loan systems in several parts of the world are almost identical to the United States. You may have some tax breaks here and there, but overall fairly identical.
- The sports industry is a very large part of the global economy. While you may not agree with them getting paid so much, if they didn't pay, you wouldn't have as many commercials. With not as much commercials, you would have less businesses etc. The Romans created the coliseum for a reason. For entertainment, and to get the citizens off their backs.
Can't they just think of something new and different? I mean, we aren't Romans and I just don't see the need of paying some nutjob that has skill in kicking a ball a couple of million to 'help the economy'. Besides, we wouldn't be on our 'governments backs' if they did a decent job for once...
afstandopleren said:
I think that there is more going on than just greed. Education could help also, but EVERY SINGLE THING in the western society is biased in 1 way or another. It's hard to find what really matters.
More education is not needed. What is needed is better education. Every single High School is biased to the fact that you're going to work for someone. What if you want to be your own boss? You're automatically being graded upon something you never plan to do.
In addition to that, even if you plan to work for someone else, you're still being graded on things you will never do. Frankly, you won't use half of the stuff you learn in High School. The only reason you should be forced to take everything is if you don't know what you're going to do when you grow up.
The last 2 paragraphs of you are exactly what's wrong with the current way the educational system is 'functioning'. Rather than focusing on the true talents of the kids 1 on 1 and not being able to get a job out of it is rather dumb and utterly illogical.
afstandopleren said:
That was only in America, yet, it effected the whole world slowly, but I don't think that that was what really started it. People have been wasting money for years (sport anyone?) so this was kinda bound to happen IMHO.
Wasting money is not anywhere close to accurate. If people didn't "waist" money, you wouldn't have stores or any form of entertainment.
You might want to check that statement again. There is lots of entertainment that doesn't involve money.
As stated before, this is solely due to the financial market.
