Austerity: Don’t re-invent the Blitz
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Rashpal
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An imaginative yet persuasive historical parallel between life in WWII and today's recession. I can relate to a lot that has been said even though war rationing occurred 6 decades ago. An eye opening report by Worldwrite!
- 3 years ago
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Rashpal
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StefanieZett
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Austerity... isn’t that the opposite of growth? Of progress? Do we want stagnation? Well, austerity actually would even mean going backwards. Was that ever any good? Do we want to revert to not being able to live freely... eat what we want to eat, do what we want to do, travel where we want to go? I certainly don’t want to, and to be honest, I don’t see the point of it. How would that get us out of the crisis? If we don’t consume, less will be produced. The companies, the economy, will suffer this way, too. Besides, the will to strive for greater things has always been a distinguishing characteristic of human nature. That’s what brought us from the cave to skyscrapers. There have been times where we had to cut back, during war, the Blitz period as it was shown in the film. Back then, nothing was available. Today, however, it is! So why not make use of it? We cannot live in stagnation, humans don’t work that way. Nobody can be happy and content in the long run if limited like that. We dream of greater things, that’s what’s so good about us – because we make them come true.
- 3 years ago
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StefanieZett
