Yeah, it's funny how many staunch republicans in my area hate socialist programs until they need it. But every other person is just abusing the programs, so they should get rid of it.The same people calling socialism, communism...are the same people who are saying, "get your government hands off my medicaid"!
Hard to say whether any failures of other economic systems we've witnessed are the inevitable result of a well-meaning but unrealistic philosophy or something sabotaged by a country that has more power, not necessarily an ethically superior system.
I'm not sure even health care qualifies. There are plenty of people griping about having to pay for others and how they should be able to freeball it themselves.
Why does the percent matter when the overwhelming dollars collected come from the top earners? I believe it surpasses the 80/20 rule, but could be remembering incorrectly about that.
I agree on hospitals being huge abusers...and they hide behind non profit loopholes and gobbling up areas under one entity. Also damning to the system is the crushing blows of litigation---many absurd lawsuits. Its the same model as our higher education system. College shouldn't cost what it does. Its absurd. Half the classes for general requirements are archaic in todays world. The ACA was well intentioned but it made it worse for people that were actually holding the system up---which in itself is ridiculous.
Ultimately, we all do based on who we elect.
Your boss sounds like a swell guy. However, his success also included an arbitrary factor: what would work. There are plenty of innovations that don't catch on through no fault of the inventor. Maybe a brilliant product is undermined by an industry that doesn't want competition. Maybe consumers aren't ready for it. Maybe the same day of your product launch for the Automatic Dehydrated Olive Laser Fork -- which is going to completely revolutionize tapas menus everywhere -- Adolf Hitler comes to power. None of that has anything to do with hard work or merit. A lot of it is arbitrary.
No, it's more that being poor requires them to work harder, yet it is still rare for any of them to escape poverty.
The problem w/ capitalism is that it is most definitely a contest. Wealth is relative to others -- technically our poor are "richer" than the average citizen in a lot of developing nations, but that is a moot point when we're talking about the challenges they face. In order for someone to get ahead, others can't.
That we will never achieve perfect equality (which is a strawman, really, as no one really thinks that's a feasible goal) is not an excuse not to address inequity.
By what measure or statistic are you referencing that it requires less work for someone born into wealth...not only to protect and not squander it, but also build on that success? You act like there is just a plethora of inheritance millionaires that sit on their ass and do nothing---ive never met one personally, thats why I ask.
That's a big part of Capitalism that kind of sucks, a lot of the "winners" didn't work or strive for shit. 1 percenters complaining about handouts, when some of them have been granted the biggest handout of them all. Grandfathered in bs.
I agree to a certain extent, though there is a high percentage of nepotism involved in those high ranking positions. Upward mobility for those who weren't birthed into those types of inheritance only takes you so far up, then the elevator is halted.
You've previously acknowledged that some people have to work harder to overcome disadvantageous beginnings. What measure were you using?
That's true, each company has their own set of goals. I certainly see what you mean with taking your service elsewhere to the highest bidder.
I see your point. I was looking at it more from the angle of competition taken too far. In sports, there has to be a loser. Life overall should be win-win.
Yeah, the last part is the limit to the nature metaphor.
Saying what you'd do in someone else's shoes from the perspective of still being who you are is a bit tone deaf. If you were black, you could refuse to accept limitations based on skin color, but where those obstacles are real, the solution is identifying them and eradicating them, not ignoring them. A lot of what people call "excuses" is actually identifying legit systemic problems. Calling those "excuses" is basically just saying you don't want to hear about it.
Privilege doesn't exist, remember? That's a myth created by the MSM..Winking
If you can’t survive on minimum wage jobs, why not try to do something to get yourself out of those low paying jobs? Instead of working nine jobs, why not try and increase your skills to get a job that pays more?
Tell that to the people living in the West End where there are no jobs, nor opportunity for higher education. The more you know.
Then they can go somewhere else. It’s not like they’re unable to ever leave. The more you try or the harder you work.
Dude, not everyone has a means of transportation to get across town where jobs are present. That's my whole point on systemic racism, keep black people in an area of town with no bus systems that run anywhere near the other side of town where jobs are attainable. That's just an example of Louisville's West End. You don't believe me, next time i'm in town i'll show you around if you live in a close by city.
I think he means there's nothing keeping them from moving away from there. There are places all over the country where there's opportunity available for people with different kinds of backgrounds. Like where I live, it's kind of an anomaly but you can come out to West Texas having never finished 10th grade and make close to 100K a year with little to no experience right now. AND your company will pay for your housing. AND they'll pay for your food. And in booms like now, they're always hiring.
So, how would they go about getting different hypothetical job to in turn get a new place in a new part of town or different city, when said hypothetical job isn't on a bus line? Should they cab it, or spend 30$ on an uber everyday in hopes to eventually leave the West End?
What’s keeping them in those dead end areas? They’re not required by law to stay there. They can move out of those areas if there aren’t any jobs. If they can’t even do that, then I would likely question decisions they made when they were younger regarding education and things like that.
Sometimes it’s gonna be hard. Sacrifices will
Yes, they are. Like I said, I will show you around and point out the non-existent bus lines that don't commute to parts of town in which jobs are being offered let alone available.
Sorry, don’t buy it. Nobody is stuck. Sometimes it’s just harder to get out for some than others. Again, if people live in a place with no bus lines, no car, no job prospects, I question decisions they made in their lives that got them there. Sorry I don’t want to pay more of my hard earned money to help deadbeats who don’t want to help themselves.
