I'm okay living in a generation where capitalism is creating a larger gap between the 1% and the 99%. In reality, as long as you self educate, you can still be self made. I'm not sure how long that opportunity will last though.
At the very least, the reform I want to see the most, the very most, is school reform. There's no reason teachers should get paid what they do and there's no reason they should be requesting donations from people for basic school supplies. Education is the foundation of a strong society.
Essentially, as the gap between the 1% and the 99% grows, we are moving back in time. Back to a time when only the rich were educated and the poor were uneducated. This has always led to the collapse of a society. Every. Single. Time.
At the moment, people around the world have access to good education, at the price of crippling debt. The nations around the world as well as banks have found the new gold: It's not oil anymore - it's paper. Debt accrued from the desire to want to be something more.
Corporations weren't founded until sometime around the 1950's and most every degree available to you that you're told you must have today in order to live the good life is essentially a 50,000$ ticket you pay for to go spend the rest of your life being a spinning cog in another rich man's machine. Corporations benefit from this form of self induced slavery, banks and governments benefit from the student loans.
Providing access to not just good education, but the best education that we know how to give, will set a precedent for exponential economic growth. Maybe not 50 years from now, but 100 and beyond? Definitely. We have the resources to do so, I wish we only had the foresight.
Perhaps I'm just being a cynic though? Maybe I should be grateful to even be afforded the option to choose crippling debt and self induced worker slavery. Or perhaps those wandering the plains of Africa are the ones truly at peace, living the good life.
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