Musing – Are College Students Blind to the Prosperity Around Them?

  Hebraic Musing – Are College Students Blind to the Prosperity Around Them?

Be careful!  It is no longer P.C. to brag about the fact that America’s prosperity is derived from Capitalism.  After all, Capitalism has now become a dirty word; even though Prosperity and benefits of Capitalism were built into the foundation of our nation by our founding fathers.  The Bible teaches us to work hard and take personal responsibility for our actions and for our families.  It admonishes us to not be lazy and to enjoy the work of our hands.  Classic well-known quotes::

·      2 Thess. 3:10  “If a man will not work, he shall not eat."  NIV

·      Proverbs 21:25  “The sluggard's craving will be the death of him, because his hands refuse to work.”

·      Proverbs 13:4  “The sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.”

The Bible doesn’t teach that wealth is wrong, but that the love of it is. “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.”  1 Tim 6:10  NIV   The problems associated with so-called capitalist economies are not due to free enterprise but to sinful criminal activity, sinful greed and government interference in free markets.

Here’s an interesting email from an MBA Grad.  Title speaks for itself –
       "College Student: My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us.”   

“I’m sitting in a small coffee shop …  I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism.  I put my phone down and look around.  I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook’s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me.  We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it – Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.  These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought.  We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average!  Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards.  Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.”

Un-appreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies continues to grow, especially among the younger generations.  Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, “An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity.” (Emphasis added)   Never saw American prosperity!  Let that sink in.  When I first read that statement, I thought to myself that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I’ve ever heard in my 26 years. … Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.  My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity.

With all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity?  We have people who are dying to get into our country.  People around the world are destitute and truly impoverished.  Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.  Why?  This generation has only seen prosperity; have seen no contrast; didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars and the Korean & Vietnam Wars or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.  We don’t know what it’s like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones.  We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem.  We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague."

Point(s) to Ponder

What is the goal of those funding A.O.C.’s campaign?

To understand the benefit of Capitalism, one needs to travel to a third-world country!

“The soul of a lazy man desires, and has nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made rich.” Pr.13:4 NKJV

Yosef   a.k.a.  Joe Brusherd                          October 13, 2020

Author: “Hebraic Insights – Messages exploring the Hebrew roots of our faith” 
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Source – “This excerpted article is said to be written by an MBA student, Alyssa Ahlgren” on April 27, 2019