bucs90
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Not sure. I know some will say "We'll do whatever we did before we had all these handouts." And in theory, thats a good point. But..the world has changed. So have people. People are fucking crazier than they used to be. I partially blame prescription meds. We were never meant to have these blends of chemicals morphing in our blood stream with unknown side effects.
Anyway....I've always argued that the handouts are meant to simply keep the lower class under some sort of civil control. Just GIVE them enough to stay fed, housed and mostly sustained to the point they aren't excessively violent (i.e. raiding the suburbs to loot and steal). Take that away...and we will have masses of hungry, violent, uneducated and undisciplined people without direction. Thats true...because if they were educated and disciplined, they probably wouldn't have ended up on handouts.
I agree somewhat. There needs to be a culture change, one that won't be coming anytime soon. We are a generation growing comfortable and entitled to instantaneous gratification. Drugs, sex, fast food. It's all cheap and all available. I'm not against any of them, just in excess. I feel like, when people have the choice between working harder to provide and finding a quick fix, more often than not it's the latter.
Absolutely right. We've basically come to live such a comfortable life...I think we forgot what hardship is!!! Thats a good thing, but like the Roman Empire, we've become so soft and spoiled, the mere idea of having to WORK HARD...for our whole lives...seems cruel to some. I've seen this in some recent college grads. 24 years old with a 4 year degree in something worthless, and they want an 80K a year job with a 3 bedroom house instantly. Tell them "Hey, you may not own a house until your late 30's, even 40's" and they go crazy. They have never lived hard.