Comments by "Taylor Griffith" (@taylorbug9) on "Can We Afford For Everybody To Be Financially Responsible?" video.

  1. Being responsible with your money does not mean only buying the bare necessities. So that's not exactly true. If everyone was responsible with their money, the only companies that would suffer are ones that rely on predatory business practices and companies that sell junk.
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  2. Yes, of course we can And if your answer is no, then obviously, our system is broken and needs to be changed for something that will work.
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  3. ​@mq1995 That just means it needs to be exchanged for something that will work for everyone. It's a myth that it has to be this way.
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  4. Need to stop spending on what?
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  5. ​@javinleong3433 Only because we sit down and shut up and we never demand our wants or needs.
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  6. @karazakiakuno4645  simply stop living by the myth that the more money exists, the less its worth. Money is an infinite resource, It makes literally no sense that more of it existing should make it worth less. Every country is a different size with a different amount of people living within its borders. Meaning every country needs a different amount of money for all of its citizens to have some. That shouldn't make anyone's dollar less or more than any other country's dollar. Most money today doesn't even exist physically but as zeros in a computer. There is absolutely no reason why we need to force people to live in poverty. Just so some people can feel overly important. The better an economy is doing the better it will continue to do. Economies are cyclical. More people lose their jobs, less people have money to spend on things that aren't necessaties. Then, even more people lose their jobs, and the cycle continues downward. When you pay people a good wage for the work they do. They can spend that money on things they want instead of just things they need. That creates more jobs, which means more people can afford to do fun things that aren't just necessities. Which creates more jobs, so on and so forth. Economics is not rocket science. It's actually ridiculously simple. When people have money., they spend it. When people spend money, it helps the economy. When the economy is good, people are happy. When people are happy, they don't go out and commit crimes.
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  7. That's not true, though. Some people aren't responsible even with just one credit card. Then there's people like me. I'm 29, and I've never had a credit card.
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  8. Yes
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  9. If everyone only bought the bare necessities, many people would be jobless and broke. But all these institutions that make it more expensive to be poor? They don't need to exist. Or be the way that they are. They only exist as they are because if greedy, immoral people. Not because of responsible people.
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  10. Being financially responsible doesn't mean just buying the necessities, though. So I'm not sure why everyone is equating it to that.
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  11. False LOL
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  12. It sucks that the comment was deleted. But someone brought up how this exact same argument was used when slavery was abolished. In the south people argued that slavery provided good jobs for others. They weren't good jobs.
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  13. In the system that we currently have, yes. But it doesn't have to be that way.
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