Secret War Journal[10 August 2011]
There is this one view about humans. We, humans are essentially, amplifiers of events.
Don't believe?
Ask yourself, in times of recessions, if you are unemployed and having difficulty find a job in these tough times, would you not wish for the existence of a welfare state that could at least sustain you until you finally find a job?
But think about it, maintaining a welfare state is actually costly, however it is argued. This is especially so in economic downturns where money is tight. Relying on welfare states and the increasing unemployment rate would place a heavy burden on the government's coffers. With less money available for them to kick-start the economy once more, our economy may well end up spiralling down.
Talk about a chain reaction, our short-term desires once again got the better of us.
Thankfully, not all is gloomy on this theory. In times of economic boom, I bet most of us would then be (using back the previous example) calling for the end of the welfare state since most of us are employed and it is simply not worth it for the extra taxes to maintain it. Yes, there would be groups who would get the bitter end of the deal but the Government now have more funds to help improve the standard of living in the country. (Infrastructure, healthcare, education, you name it.)
Humans, sometimes we over-react to events, sometimes we end up making things worse, but perhaps that's fundamentally what we are: Tools for the higher beings for a certain purpose.
We just have to avoid getting into sticky situations so that we would not fall into a bottomless pit of disasters.
There is this one view about humans. We, humans are essentially, amplifiers of events.
Don't believe?
Ask yourself, in times of recessions, if you are unemployed and having difficulty find a job in these tough times, would you not wish for the existence of a welfare state that could at least sustain you until you finally find a job?
But think about it, maintaining a welfare state is actually costly, however it is argued. This is especially so in economic downturns where money is tight. Relying on welfare states and the increasing unemployment rate would place a heavy burden on the government's coffers. With less money available for them to kick-start the economy once more, our economy may well end up spiralling down.
Talk about a chain reaction, our short-term desires once again got the better of us.
Thankfully, not all is gloomy on this theory. In times of economic boom, I bet most of us would then be (using back the previous example) calling for the end of the welfare state since most of us are employed and it is simply not worth it for the extra taxes to maintain it. Yes, there would be groups who would get the bitter end of the deal but the Government now have more funds to help improve the standard of living in the country. (Infrastructure, healthcare, education, you name it.)
Humans, sometimes we over-react to events, sometimes we end up making things worse, but perhaps that's fundamentally what we are: Tools for the higher beings for a certain purpose.
We just have to avoid getting into sticky situations so that we would not fall into a bottomless pit of disasters.
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