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Originally Posted by waste gate
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Originally Posted by Skybird
... but not every simplicity is true.
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The reality in your country prooves you wrong, somehow. It is no truth, but selective perception, I think. Not that I want to see my criticism being undestood as valid for the US exclusively. It is by tendency true for Europe and Germany as well. But I find your explanations why it all is okay basing on too much simplifying, and also a very unjust attitude towards many, many people who are sitting on the loosing side of it all. I heared it so often that it is being said by those living in prosperity and with a safe job, that those that do not get a job or are poor must accept responsebility for that alone. Maybe I had more contacts to people who prooves this mean self-righteous hard-heartedness wrong so that I know it better, than you, I don'T know. But so damn often those bastards that are living like parasites from wellfare and would not help themselves, although there may be chances opening to them, are the excuse for consevatoive hardloiners to say that all poor and wellfare-dependant people are like that. And this is simply not true. I was confronted with the tough, and often very desperate reality of those sitting on the looser's side of life. And that was heart-braking, often, for many of them try bitterly hard, but do not get a chance, and even accept themselves getting exploited in their weakness and that others make maxiumum financial use of their vulnerability and the circumstance that they cannot defend.
Leave behind those that are lazy to help themselves although they could, and think the community is responsible to pay for them, okay. But don'T dare to declare this kind of people the majority. That is nothing else than character assassination (Rufmord), and displays an extreme level of cynism and hard-heartedness.
And sinc ethis seem to be an argument here, I have no debts, too, and do not live beyond that level that I can afford by my own ressources available to me. But what does this proove? that all could live like I do? I had a whiole damn lot of luck in my life. and I know too many peoppe who had to try much much harder than I had to - and nevertheless lost ground under their feet, without their mistake. The old saying "everybody is the creator of his own fortune" may be motivating to foster a creative attitude - but in no way it describes a reality that is valid for everybody. Not even for a majority. For most people, it remains to be a myth, forever. And for everybody who makes it from dish-washer to millionaire, there are maybe a hundred who do not even try, and a thousand who try as hard as they can and even beyond braking point - and don't get a chance to make progress or see any fair reward. They may work in four jobs per week, and 16, sometimes 18 hours a day, for a cynically low wage (always take care of that inflation!) that leaves them in need to take up debts nevertheless. And then they are told " try harder", "you got what you deserve", "get a school course"...? That is mean, and cynical. The misery goes as far that the crash of the parent's lifes also already cripple the chances of their offsprings, it limits their intellectual developement, emotio9nal developement , it creates behavioral symptoms, all tbhis lowers their chances even more, even deseases and decreasing life expectancy is a factor. Poverty makes sick both body and soul.