"If you business “leaders” managed to mobilize at least a basic housing and healthcare model into future sustainability infrastructure here in America "What you're asking is an impossibility today. America's financial infrastructure is no longer capable of this. Perhaps if the US undergoes a Argentinian/Weimar/Yugoslav hyperflation and we essentially reset the country. Only then, with all debt wiped out and massive human misery can we create a new foundation for housing and healthcare. Otherwise as a nation we're just going to slowly grind down. Luckily the US is still a massively asset rich nation, unfortunately the liability side is increasing as far as the eye can see.   See 3 other replies

I have to respectfully disagree with your feelings about the idea to "go do something you love."First of all, I fully understand and respect where your feelings of insult are coming from. Bill Gates, for all the crap he takes, is one of the most generous people in history. If I recall correctly, he has donated more money than any human being ever. The majority of the money he has earned has gone to his foundation, which does some amazing things. At the very least, you have to admit that the guy tries.
"Doing something you love" is quite possibly the key to an equal opportunity playing field. As this country changes the way it operates, new ideas are rising to the surface. The point being, the pursuit of professional happiness is a much healthier idea than dragging yourself through a career on the assumption that the money is good and you don't think about it after 5 pm.
I agree with you, it's difficult to say that to someone who is struggling to support themselves or their family, and it's difficult to hear if you have experienced very real hurdles like institutional racism and sexism. The underlying goal, and the reason we fight for our personal freedoms, is the pursuit of happiness. It's a simple guideline, and it's even more unfair to deny those in need the ability to be happy just because they are worried about survival.   See 3 other replies

‘Capitalist’ competitiveness in the free market of wants of course may tend to support diversity and quality of industry and works in many scenarios, but without a baseline social standard that gives all a platform for basic lifestyle solvency, of independent security, the majority are still left subject to the same old marginalizing authority of station and agenda, which is by and large a crap shoot as one student pointed out.The de facto state of the sum of all context in complex modern terms, left as-is without a safety net so to speak, would also seem a striking regression of the Great American ideal of freedom and democracy… Exponential complexity means exponential risk of being leveraged out of existence, being unable ever to afford to defend oneself and therefore really even begin, and forcing people to “adapt” to one short-term strategy or another in such an environment to afford these things is unnecessary and cruel.It would seem like a relatively simple tradeoff, but somehow intelligent life on this planet still has trouble justifying investment in its own essential happiness, too desperate in the absence of such a stabilizing force to sell contrived presentation and nuanced conformity as a product.We do seem to get stuck on extremes beyond what modern context would tend to paint as rational. Democrat vs. Republican, Capitalism vs. Communism, Freedom vs. Assimilation...I challenge either of you to hear and invest in my design.   See 3 other replies