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I think people are too quick to discount the importance of failure and feeling bad. If failing has no consequence, there will be far less motivation. However, in my opinion, this is a balance. Failure has to be sufficiently painful, but no more than that.

From the research I’ve done, two major items have made failure too painful: stagnant wages and rapidly inflating rent prices. People can no longer hold onto savings in case something doesn’t work because they barely make ends meet. Our system is inherently broken. We need unions, raises in minimum wage, worker strikes, etc. This is not going to be a generation of people going through economic hardship just because of the economy, but also because we are no longer willing to fight for each other.




How would unions help anything? Modern examples (such as teachers unions) seem to reward mediocrity and encourage paying into failing pensions


If unions were the cause of "mediocrity" then there should be better teaching in states that don't have teacher unions right?

Ranking of states without unions (2011) https://www.businessinsider.com/states-where-teachers-unions...

Wisconsin after unions were removed (2017) https://money.cnn.com/2017/11/17/news/economy/wisconsin-act-...


How does unionization depress rising rent?




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