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Social cohesion lowest on record as Australia reels from cost of living, inequality concerns and voice debate (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Relentless cost-of-living pressure, rising interest rates, uncertainty about the direction of the economy and growing concern about inequality has undermined Australia’s sense of social cohesion, according to authoritative new research.

After a polarising voice referendum campaign and amid rising community tensions over the war in the Middle East, the latest Mapping Social Cohesion Report puts the Scanlon-Monash Index of Social Cohesion at its lowest ebb since the survey began 16 years ago.

The social cohesion index provides a barometer of social wellbeing, measuring belonging, worth, participation, acceptance and rejection, social inclusion and justice. The measure declined by four points over the past 12 months, hitting the lowest result on record. Since November 2020 – the peak of social cohesion recorded during the Covid-19 pandemic – the index has plummeted 13 points.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Paragraph spacing is helpful. That aside I could provide a list of communist ills just as long. What's your point? My point is clear - communism doesn't provide the utopia you are looking for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why does communism have to create utopia to be a competitor to capitalism, which demonstrably creates dystopia?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because it just creates another form of dystopia.

What works best I think out of all the systems we have currently is something like "cuddly capitalism" i.e. Scandinavia. That's not perfect either but even so.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

So, basically capitalism can be reformed (as long as you ignore its issues) but communism cannot be (because you said so).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That wasn't the claim OP made.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The comment was directed at you. Do you believe communism is a viable alternative system? If not great we agree.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Could you point out where in this thread I even mentioned communism, never mind stated that I believed it was viable?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You answer my question first then I'll answer yours.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

If it's a pissing contest you want, find someone else to indulge you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

This is a warning due to a violation of Rule 0. @[email protected] has only mentioned communism once in this thread. I would encourage you to engage in a more nuanced discussion

If only you could just as easily demonstrate where exactly the person you responded to seems to think communism is the ‘light on the hill’…