[ExI] Homelessness (was Re: Social right to have a living)

[Kelly Anderson]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:04 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> Would anyone want to argue with the notion that
> societal characteristics are driven primarily by mate selection?

I would make that argument, but only over the VERY long term. Millions
of years. Irrelevant now, of course.

> There is a subtle point of view here I want to understand without
> criticizing at all.  I sometimes hear comments about how elderly people use
> up resources without actually producing anything.  But if the elderly person
> owns a ton of money, they do produce something: they invest that money
> somewhere or loan it to someone else who invests it somewhere and turns it
> into more money.  So in that sense, rich old people produce value for
> society, but poor old people do not.
>
> Lesson: be rich by the time you get old.  Otherwise you become a burden to
> society.  If you are a rich geezer, you are a blessing to society, providing
> jobs to the poor (at the nursing home) and investing in industry, which
> provides jobs to the young and vigorous.  So making a ton of money and
> keeping it in your working years equals doing right.  Or the equivalent:
> don't be poor, it's a sin.
>
> It's going to be fun to hear rebuttals to that last bit.  {8^D

You won't get any rebuttals from me on that one...

-Kelly