It's not just California, it's the whole country that's in a mess. How did it get there? In a word, greed. In a few more words, people failing to understand, tolerate, care for, and stand up for each other, especially people different from them. "Me, me, me" does not work. "We" works.
"Me me me" made us one of the richest countries in the world. In a bad recession, our unemployment is about as bad as most of the "we" countries. We are still far richer.
The fact that we have booms and busts (and are currently in a bust) is not evidence that our system doesn't work.
In a word, greed. In a few more words, people failing to understand, tolerate, care for, and stand up for each other, especially people different from them.
Greed wasn't just invented. Ditto for the rest. A scientific explanation requires that the dependent variable Y be a function of the independent variable X, if X is claimed to be causative.
Another thing I dislike about statements like this is that the speaker always comes out smelling like a rose. That may not have been your intention, but there it is.
The very concept of the "American Dream" is individualistic. Individualism is ingrained in our culture. We are all taught to think for ourselves, and thinking for ourselves usually winds up being thinking about ourselves for most people.
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It's not just California, it's the whole country that's in a mess. How did it get there? In a word, greed. In a few more words, people failing to understand, tolerate, care for, and stand up for each other, especially people different from them. "Me, me, me" does not work. "We" works.
That's an incredibly simplistic worldview that is expressed here.
"Me me me" made us one of the richest countries in the world. In a bad recession, our unemployment is about as bad as most of the "we" countries. We are still far richer.
The fact that we have booms and busts (and are currently in a bust) is not evidence that our system doesn't work.
In a word, greed. In a few more words, people failing to understand, tolerate, care for, and stand up for each other, especially people different from them.
Greed wasn't just invented. Ditto for the rest. A scientific explanation requires that the dependent variable Y be a function of the independent variable X, if X is claimed to be causative.
Another thing I dislike about statements like this is that the speaker always comes out smelling like a rose. That may not have been your intention, but there it is.
Well America is a very individualistic society. Unless we have a massive cultural overhaul, most people will keep thinking in terms of "me."
The very concept of the "American Dream" is individualistic. Individualism is ingrained in our culture. We are all taught to think for ourselves, and thinking for ourselves usually winds up being thinking about ourselves for most people.
Of course we will. Everyone is afraid of being labeled a socialist. Or a communist or a facist since they are all used interchangably now.