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re: So you want 15$ an hour for working a register at McDonalds?
Posted on 5/28/15 at 10:19 pm to Henry Jones Jr
Posted on 5/28/15 at 10:19 pm to Henry Jones Jr
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Guess it's hard for some people to understand why others have a problem being a leech on others
Robots + globalization has reshuffled the deck. The entitlement growth is merely a symptom of a global economy in transition. I'm sure it feels great to be Mr. Rugged Individual though, so keep telling yourself whatever makes you feel good.
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Posted on 5/28/15 at 10:22 pm to Duke
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Robots + globalization has reshuffled the deck. The entitlement growth is merely a symptom of a global economy in transition. I'm sure it feels great to be Mr. Rugged Individual though, so keep telling yourself whatever makes you feel good.
Didn't realize enjoying making my own money meant I was "Mr. Rugged Individual"
Posted on 5/28/15 at 10:32 pm to Henry Jones Jr
Sometimes people exaggerate to make a point.
Posted on 5/28/15 at 11:09 pm to Duke
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The entitlement growth is merely a symptom of a global economy in transition.
It may be a symptom. It's certainly not "merely." And it's becoming a generational curse. My wife, who is an admin at a school with over 80% of the population on assistance, has jaw-dropping story after jaw-dropping story. "I can't get a job. I have stuff to do during the week." "If I pay for my kid's medicine, I don't have money to go out on the weekends." "When is the school going to start feeding the kids dinner?" (After all, they get breakfast and lunch free.) "Can we get some better snacks in the backpacks" (that come home with food on the weekends)? "My kid hasn't been in school for 3 weeks? Has it been that long? Yeah, she's not sick or anything." And on and on and on it goes.
Creating dependency doesn't create self-sufficiency. And deriding those who refuse it is pretty shitty, too. Shame is good sometimes. And those who are satisfied in dependency might do well to feel it at certain points.
Posted on 5/28/15 at 11:31 pm to Duke
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The winds of globalization hit us quickly. How do we deal with not having manufacturing jobs to carry the middle class anymore?
The robots and SE Asians aren't going anywhere.
There is so little work available that we have 30 million Latinos who've immigrated here in the past 20 years to not do all that work that doesn't exist.
Entitlements, like alcohol, magnify the worst tendencies of large groups of people.
Obesity shouldn't be a symptom of poverty.
Posted on 5/28/15 at 11:33 pm to the808bass
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Shame is good sometimes.
Agree.
Posted on 5/28/15 at 11:42 pm to deeprig9
Not that I recall. I was there from mid 92 to Aug. of 96. I met my best friend of today there though and he is a ginger. But his name is Tom. He grew up in Valdosta.
Posted on 5/29/15 at 12:09 am to 3nOut
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How is it at 33 and not growing up in a high-income household by any means was I able to keep from getting knocked up but others cannot?
Because you eat too much fast food.
Posted on 5/29/15 at 1:10 am to Lordofwrath88
That's awesome
Posted on 5/29/15 at 7:21 am to The Spleen
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You can try to be noble, but you're lying if you say you'd turn down an offer to receive enough compensation to maintain your current living situation without having to work.
Man you come up with some stupid shite but this has to take the cake.
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