> Usually articles like this are a form of narrative shaping for profitable social problems caused by corporations
True. In this case, it's not difficult to imagine that someone who wants to sell "adulting classes" would get some PR help to drum up awareness for their product.
> "Lots of people get (very profitably) mired in debt" -> ban usury which would be unprofitable but net positive for society
You haven't thought this through. "Usury" is easy to get angry at, but to actually ban it, one would need to set limits on interest rates and fees, and lenders would need to start rejecting far greater numbers of poor/risky borrowers to stay compliant.
It's sort of like putting limits on insurance rates. It sounds like a great pro-consumer move. But the second order effects can be terrible, as evidenced by taxpayers needing to bail out insurance companies after the recent LA fires. See https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/03/proposed-fixes-for-ca...
Media is a self-reinforcing system that generates acceptable narratives for a set of consumers. Unfortunately, it is not a context for working out effective public policy (that'd be nice though).
pydry commented that The Economist is "is Rothschild owned", which is partially true but quite misleading. The Rothschilds are minority owners, but other investors have much more control over the company than they do.
avshalom seems to have interpreted that as anti-Semitic. For what it's worth, I also interpreted the comment that way at first, but I think that it's best to assume good intent here, so in that spirit I would say that pydry probably just meant it to represent rich people rather than Jews.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of the Jewish/antisemitic angle at all, but that's my own ignorance in that area.
The "represents rich people" angle was the only interpretation I could see. Still not sure I fully understand why the conversation has gone in the Jewish/antisemite direction though, but again this is a topic I choose to remain ignorant on.
Well yeah, the baffling leap from "young adults are having a hard time navigating life" to "the real problem is interest bearing loans but they won't let us talk about that" is the other clue that pydry is a nazi.
Indeed. This was the only interpretation intended. Anti semitism, like all racism, is a scourge on humanity.
The rothschilds are not representative of jews theyre a representative of rich capitalists.
Some people (usually rather extreme racists who support/deny the ongoing genocide in gaza) see anti semitism everywhere, especially where it doesnt exist, however.
These people's rather extreme racism has become increasingly bold and obvious in recent times and almost always comes dressed up in faux concern for anti semitism.
