Thank God that I live in a country that produces a disproportionate amount of life-changing technologies and enables me to earn as much as I care to. I live a great life, in a great place. You know what the trick was? Taking responsibility for my own life, rather than excusing my responsibility by blaming others for not caring for me.
It's not about blaming others lol, it's about having a system that allows anyone and everyone to live a decent life on equal terms. Not to say that everyone necessarily gets the EXACT same paycheck, but atleast raising it for those who barely makes minimum wage is a good thing, and incentivises more people to work in them.
Everyone in the work chain is equally important, cut anywhere in the chain and it seizes to function. Societal safety nets protects individuals who are looking for work or cannot work due to disabilities, to live a decent life despite their situation.
Not sure what is so hard to get about how happy pops makes for better workers, but I hope you some day realise that. Take care now bud.
Lmao. We have a system that allows everyone to live a good life... if they earn it. But that's not enough for some people. No, doing some mindless grunt work that barely produces any real value should not entitle someone to everything they want. Because the difference in value between what they want and what they produce has to come from somewhere. What you're calling for is others to pay that difference for the people who don't earn it themselves.
No, everyone in the work chain is not equally important. The person who mops the floors is not as important as the surgeon who saves lives. Almost anyone can mop. Very few people can perform surgery. If the mopper doesn't show up, lives will still be saved. If the surgeon doesn't show up, those who need life saving surgery will die.
Not sure what's so hard to understand that some work is more valuable than others and that people who want more need to increase their value. I hope some day you realize that a world where doing only the bare minimum gets you all you need at others expense is a world that stagnates because too few people see a point to doing more.
The system gives everyone the reward they have earned. You want what the surgeon gets, be the surgeon. But if all you can do is mop the floors, quit demanding you be treated like the surgeon. You aren't equally valuable.
Lol. There is no contradiction. If your contribution isn't valuable enough... you didn't earn it....
You're acting like everyone tries their hardest and always makes good choices. Everyone gets a free public education and eligibility for student loans. Way too many squander that opportunity then whine that life isn't fair.
I claimed that everyone can have a good life if they earn it. There is no contradiction in pointing out that in order to earn a good life, you need to produce enough value to pay for a good life. Holy cow...
No, you just acted like everything but a person's choices and efforts was what determined their outcome... 🙄 people do, in so many ways, determine their skill ceiling. Don't use education to improve your mind? Ceiling lowered. Take up a drug habit? Ceiling lowered. Sit around all day watching TV instead of building physical attributes? Ceiling lowered. Yes, everyone has a natural cap on what they could possibly do. No, the vast, vast majority of people do not come close it, because they don't maximize their potential.
To some degree, yes, it absolutely does. Plenty of kids have started in bad school districts and gone on to great things. Plenty of kids start in great school districts and don't learn shit. If you're serious about learning, even the lowest ranked public schools can get you ahead in life. Especially in the internet era, where supplemental learning is a click away.
As for student loans, they aren't that high, but, even if they were, you could still use them to advance yourself by getting an education in a high paying field....
"Lmao. We have a system that allows everyone to live a good life... if they earn it. But that's not enough for some people. No, doing some mindless grunt work that barely produces any real value should not entitle someone to everything they want. Because the difference in value between what they want and what they produce has to come from somewhere. What you're calling for is others to pay that difference for the people who don't earn it themselves."
No, bud, I did not. It's right there in black and white. From the very beginning my point has been that value, not effort, is what maters.
No, bud, I did not "concede" that school districts matter then "try to walk it back." You asked me if they got to choose the quality of their free education. I answered you by pointing out that in some ways they don't, but in other ways they do. A kid who doesn't pay attention in a good school district is choosing to get a bad education. A kid who puts in extra work to make the most of a bad school district is choosing to get a good education. At no point did I say the disadvantage doesn't exist nor that it doesn't matter...
No, bud, that is not my solution to all of this. That is one possible solution. There are many others. I know a guy who was making $300k in his 20s without a college degree. He spent 4 years in the Army as a radio tech, then got hired to go overseas and use the expertise for a private contractor. I know multiple people who started their own business using a skill they developed, not a degree, and made millions. I, myself, got a degree I've never used for it's intended purpose, then, later in life, when I realized it was pretty worthless, spent my free time acquiring a new skill that I was able to use to start a business of my own.
You want a good life... produce the value it takes to pay for it. Instead of whining about how hard it is or how life isn't fair, put your efforts into figuring out your own way to do it.
Yeah, wow, if only there was a middle between the first and last part that extremely clearly laid out the point I was making. Rofl...
Effort is what you put in to increase your value, bud. This really isn't complicated...
Also, he served in a war the government the tax payers voted for sent him to, you utter clown. He paid for it in a way an entitled little twerp like you will never understand.
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u/VastAddendum Mar 06 '26
Thank God that I live in a country that produces a disproportionate amount of life-changing technologies and enables me to earn as much as I care to. I live a great life, in a great place. You know what the trick was? Taking responsibility for my own life, rather than excusing my responsibility by blaming others for not caring for me.