What would you change about society (in the US) if you had the power?
- Thread starter Syringer
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A better educated and less apathetic public would be nice. Informed decision making...what a cool concept. Of course we struggle for decision making (voter turn out numbers are always so great) so I'm aiming way to high.
Schadenfreude
Lifer
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I would try to change the need for people to want stuff that isn't important. If you look at it, that is why sh!t happens in the world. People in the US need to have more than the next person, and this causes a lot of problems. I'd have to start with myself though, because I still fit into this cateogry, although I'm better than most.
Anubis
No Lifer
totally eliminate all of this "Pop Culture" Crap that MTV and the like have created,. and id do away with ALL cell phones. all calls would go to work and if not there then home. and if noone is there LEAVE A FUKIN MESSAGE!
i'd abolish alcohol and drugs. this country/society are going to hell in a handbasket and it seems that every single social outlet of any sort is completely underpinned by the intake of alcoholic beverages.
I would require critical thinking and logic courses in 6th, 9th, and 11th grades. Particularly emphasized would be that life is all about making choices, and making a 'bad' choice doesn't entitle one to the distinction of being a 'victim' or deserving of sympathy.
I would require 'economic freedom' courses to combat wide-spread misconceptions and ignorance about the philosophy and principles of our free enterprise system and its history. Today, we as a society raise and graduate "employees" with not only zero entrepreneurial spirit or ambition, they don't even understand the most basic concepts and principles of enterprise and business. This makes people completely dependent upon others for their economic opportunities and leaves them clueless as to how to take charge of their own economic fate.
Instead of a country where one man can accumulate $60+ billion, I would prefer to see instead 1000 enterprising persons accumulate $60 million each, or better still, 10,000 enterprising persons accumulate $6 million each.
I would require 'personal finance management' courses to combat the wide-spread misuse and abuse of credit and personal finances due in no small part to ignorance, but also due to greed and foolishness. Particularly emphasized will be numerous real-world cost/benefit contrast and comparisons, such as how a $10,000 home theatre system will only depreciate in value until its worthless while the same $10,000 invested reasonably and soundly will only increase in value.
<extremely far-fetched wishful thinking>
I would require every chili double cheeseburger to be tagged with a radioactive substance which accumulates in the body the more one eats chili double cheeseburgers. If a person should require a quadruple bypass and cannot pay for it, we can estimate how many chili double cheeseburgers he or she (usually he) has eaten in their life by measuring the accumulation of this radioactive substance.
If you have eaten very few chili double cheeseburgers, you get your quadruple bypass. If you have eaten a lot of chili cheeseburgers despite the well-known risks of such a long-term diet, your terrible dietary choices constitutes "informed consent" of the risks and you are not entitled to make others pay for your own stupidity. You will not get your quadruple bypass unless you can pay for it. We will, however, as some consolation, symbolicly buy you one last chili cheeseburger before you die. We hope you enjoy it.
</extremely far-fetched wishful thinking>
I would require 'economic freedom' courses to combat wide-spread misconceptions and ignorance about the philosophy and principles of our free enterprise system and its history. Today, we as a society raise and graduate "employees" with not only zero entrepreneurial spirit or ambition, they don't even understand the most basic concepts and principles of enterprise and business. This makes people completely dependent upon others for their economic opportunities and leaves them clueless as to how to take charge of their own economic fate.
Instead of a country where one man can accumulate $60+ billion, I would prefer to see instead 1000 enterprising persons accumulate $60 million each, or better still, 10,000 enterprising persons accumulate $6 million each.
I would require 'personal finance management' courses to combat the wide-spread misuse and abuse of credit and personal finances due in no small part to ignorance, but also due to greed and foolishness. Particularly emphasized will be numerous real-world cost/benefit contrast and comparisons, such as how a $10,000 home theatre system will only depreciate in value until its worthless while the same $10,000 invested reasonably and soundly will only increase in value.
<extremely far-fetched wishful thinking>
I would require every chili double cheeseburger to be tagged with a radioactive substance which accumulates in the body the more one eats chili double cheeseburgers. If a person should require a quadruple bypass and cannot pay for it, we can estimate how many chili double cheeseburgers he or she (usually he) has eaten in their life by measuring the accumulation of this radioactive substance.
If you have eaten very few chili double cheeseburgers, you get your quadruple bypass. If you have eaten a lot of chili cheeseburgers despite the well-known risks of such a long-term diet, your terrible dietary choices constitutes "informed consent" of the risks and you are not entitled to make others pay for your own stupidity. You will not get your quadruple bypass unless you can pay for it. We will, however, as some consolation, symbolicly buy you one last chili cheeseburger before you die. We hope you enjoy it.
</extremely far-fetched wishful thinking>
If I could change one thing I would eliminate the social security system. I mean completely eliminate it. Everyone who paid into it who didn't receive benefits would get their money back and people who are on it now would be the very last people. After they die no one else would have to pay into the system and no one would receive benefits. It would just disappear. Social Security is one of the largest boondoggles of the century if not the millenium.
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