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| quote: | Originally posted by PivotTechno
Ah, falling back on that archaic paradigm that if only you *apply* yourself, that you'll be able to work your way out of poverty and then the day will come that maybe YOU'LL own the company!
Right-oh, old chap, I'll have Stevenson in human resources draw up a brief outline detailing your heady rise from bathroom attendant to CEO of Barrick! Pip pip!
Clue in, the number of people who actually worked their way to wealth relative to the whole are the minority. Privilege tends to be passed down generationally, as does poverty. |
I'm not talking about people who work their way up the ladder. I'm talking about people being financially responsible, saving, investing, and starting their own business to become wealthy. If not in their own generation, then at least climbing into the middle class, and passing along their good habits to their kids, who can take the next step forward. Poverty is not systemic, in so much as it's the corporation's fault, it's systemic in that people waste all their money on non-necessities because they've never been taught any better (in fact, have been encouraged to constantly consume), and then complain that it's big business and the government keeping them down.
Too many poor people sit around smoking their cigarettes, drinking their booze, watching their cable TV and complaining on the internet that they have no money while chewing on the pizza that was just delivered to their residence. Well no fuck, they've wasted it all on cigarettes, booze, TV, fast food, and a computer they can't afford. And if they've had kids, it's made worse, because they can't afford those either.
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Captain Planet is gey.
Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Heart???
These forces are supposed to combine to create Captain Planet?
Bullshit.
Those forces combine to create a soaking, boiling mudstorm on Valentine's Day.
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You dont actually believe that do you?
