@chriswithans The recovery Reagan was handed was a combination of Carter's admin putting in the work that actually made it happen, and the aftereffects of the oil shock finally fading. Carter's entire term saw the economy improve year over year, but he also encouraged thrift so nobody cared.
@DKagemann@aelfwineR Seems a bit off to assume that when people ask why God allows suffering, they must be talking about human-induced suffering. There's so much else to make people die and hurt, some of which starts by nobody's choice before the sufferer is even born.
@DKagemann@aelfwineR Funny you say that, every time I try volunteering I just wind up angrier and angrier that there's any need for me to do so when so many other people could have stepped up and didn't.
@lonestead@Buick_Willis@ksorbs You fell for the same idealized illusion of capitalism that capitalists have always tried to push. This IS capitalism. It's always BEEN capitalism. Capitalists and capitalism fanboys just use Smithian competition as a shitty paper mask while they push for its destruction.
@ksorbs Actual capitalism: You own the equipment needed to raise cows. The two cows on your farm are not your cows, but the cows of a corporation which has contracted you to raise them. It will pay you a shitty fixed rate for the cows while you pay for all the equipment upkeep and feed.
@DBerg1996@Feletida The Eldar also have equivalents to some dudes who were living way up in the mountains with no phones or electricity, and the bombs didn't cover where they were at because everyone thought nobody lived there.