Monks find their life’s meaning in a most austere environment, and military boot camps are thought to build character. But the kind of fiscal austerity that is being practiced now has the immediate effect of rendering people jobless and filling their lives with nothing but a sense of rejection and exclusion.
某些类型的紧缩计划也许确实增进了士气。僧人在极端简朴的环境中寻求生命意义，军训也被视为塑造性格的良方。但现在所实施的财政紧缩有一个马上产生的效果——让人们失业，导致他们只能用被拒绝和被排斥的感觉填充他们的生活。