As a Canadian making a decent wage, but not living outside my means, I guess this article explains why I feel like I'm being left behind.
I had a coworker who got a condon and was paying 45% of his income for it, it made no sense. So I keep renting and wasting my money as people say, but at least I wouldn't go bankrupt if something bad happens.
Conspiracy theory, this is related to the changing dynamics of popular media. These advertisers are actually concerned about money going to non-approved media sources. The extremists videos are a happy coincidence / excuse for them to act on.
My parents pulled me out of public school and sent me to a private school that could teach me given my special needs. Best decision for everyone, sucks though that they had to pay my tuition in addition to all the taxes.
Facebook, Twitter, Snap should be co-operatives of some sort, the users are creating the value, at least the popular ones, so they should be rewarded within the system for their continued support and audience development.
Naw, I specifically said I don't trust the government.
Parents should be able to choose the kind of school their child goes to... Though, this is unfair to kids with bad parents. That said, people who will (knowingly) be bad parents, shouldn't have kids in the first place.
As a child, I had a learning disability, my school's principal told my parents that I'd never do anything with my life. My parents disagree and so did I, they found a private school that specialized in teaching students like me. The school did some intellectual tests to make sure I could learn, and learn I did.
They spent tens of thousands of dollars so that I could be taught, in that environment I excelled.
I don't trust the government to be a good judge of students abilities, because someone like me would be labelled dumb and be left behind forever.
Technically if you were pressing an alternative theory than you would be using 'alternative facts.' Facts are tools or pieces to build something, such as a theory.
We all experience alternative realities and use our 'alternative facts' to justify our beliefs. We all literally do this every single day.
As a libertarian or a marxist one has 'alternative facts' about the nature of humans, society and the environment, from there they build up their world.
I'd say I'm more of a realist, whatever is happening is happening, and whatever the results are going to be are going to be.
Likely some of what is happening is caused by humans and some is outside our control. Likely our actions will make little difference. Realistically the whole world runs on fossil fuels and that is not going to change anytime soon or quickly. Sure they can raise taxes significantly, but that is going to make the food at the grocery store much much more expensive before it makes any serious change on the environment.
You seem to be in denial about how prohibitively difficult it would be to 'fix' this problem.
This isn't a philosophical debate, but consider something like physicalism rather than free will.... No point in getting into a debate about that, but if you believe in science then you kind of have to believe in determinism.
We aren't really special, we ONLY think we are, we are restricted to the same laws as all other animals over all of time. We THINK we are different and ACT differently, but the 'effects' will still come to our 'causes.'
Take a stoic perspective rather than a defeatist one on the deterministic nature of things and it stops being something to get angry about.
Haven't we been trying to improve our lives and the lives of our children for 30,000 odd years... Take a look at the situation we created, this world is the direct result of our desire to make things better... We've literally destroyed the earth.
I couldn't get an audience, so I kind of gave up on it.
Maybe the times are more right for something like that these days.
That said, my novel might not have been that good.