Maybe his greater overall project was normalizing an austerity mindset
Not quite, I've heard him in the background a lot and if you ignore some of the dumber personal responsibility bullshit, he is talking about tracking your income and outcome, consolidate debt, and pay it off. He doesn't argue against spending, he argues against using creditwhen spending. And it really is the most important lesson (personal-spending wise) you can learn as a socialist or capitalist. Credit is systemic robbery from the poor to the rich. A communist would argue the solution is to abolish debt, credit, value and commodity. He is just saying don't do it, ever.
I don't believe in a stimulus check because if 600 dollars or 1400 changes your life, you were pretty much screwed already. You had other issues going on. You have a career, debt, relationship, or mental health problem...
source: https://youtu.be/mRa3val52t4
He thinks that throwing a life preserver (600, 1400, or 2,000$ checks) is a waste of effort. But in the quote he is identifying everything wrong with american life. People have a career problem when their job pays like shit, or they can only score gig economy jobs. Debt is a real problem in this country that's why we should have a jubilee and we ought to be looking at forgiving medical and student debt. Women systematically make less than men, and having to quit your job to take care of your children, puts you at a disadvantage when saving for retirement, or when you get back out into the workforce. Don't even get me started on the abject struggle of those with mental health issues.
We NEED stimulus checks, but a single one is not gonna cut it. That's why the argument has to be retroactive payments all the way back to March of 2020. That's why an argument for UBI from the left, needs to part of our message. As well as abolishing capitalism.
Not quite, I've heard him in the background a lot and if you ignore some of the dumber personal responsibility bullshit, he is talking about tracking your income and outcome, consolidate debt, and pay it off. He doesn't argue against spending, he argues against using credit when spending. And it really is the most important lesson (personal-spending wise) you can learn as a socialist or capitalist. Credit is systemic robbery from the poor to the rich. A communist would argue the solution is to abolish debt, credit, value and commodity. He is just saying don't do it, ever.
He thinks that throwing a life preserver (600, 1400, or 2,000$ checks) is a waste of effort. But in the quote he is identifying everything wrong with american life. People have a career problem when their job pays like shit, or they can only score gig economy jobs. Debt is a real problem in this country that's why we should have a jubilee and we ought to be looking at forgiving medical and student debt. Women systematically make less than men, and having to quit your job to take care of your children, puts you at a disadvantage when saving for retirement, or when you get back out into the workforce. Don't even get me started on the abject struggle of those with mental health issues.
We NEED stimulus checks, but a single one is not gonna cut it. That's why the argument has to be retroactive payments all the way back to March of 2020. That's why an argument for UBI from the left, needs to part of our message. As well as abolishing capitalism.