Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
A friend posted this on Facebook.
It's a good thought. Especially for people on welfare who have all those things for no effort other than to go to the store and spend the food stamps.
But, we should also keep in mind that if in the last two hundred years, all of the people had been content with what they had, such as forty acres to grow food on, a well to draw water out of, and a pot bellied stove to heat it on, when they're not cooking potatoes, they would not have had the motivation to innovate, nor the entrepreneurial spirit that spurred the Industrial Revolution, which gave us all luxuries that allow us to live better than the kings did before the IR.
That kid who is supported by taxpayers and raised by a mom who complains that "it ain't enough," the official motto of welfare dolees may have been the next Henry Ford, or Thomas Edison. But nearly all the great innovators started by working as children. We are killing this younger generation's spirit. COVID interrupted their educations, and allowed them to watch their parents sit at home all day as if everyone were on welfare.
The work will still be done and the innovations will continue, but by a shrinking percent of the population who will rule over their ignorant and lazy peers. Maybe the die was cast for that to eventually happen when the Industrial Revolution happened.
It's a good thought. Especially for people on welfare who have all those things for no effort other than to go to the store and spend the food stamps.
But, we should also keep in mind that if in the last two hundred years, all of the people had been content with what they had, such as forty acres to grow food on, a well to draw water out of, and a pot bellied stove to heat it on, when they're not cooking potatoes, they would not have had the motivation to innovate, nor the entrepreneurial spirit that spurred the Industrial Revolution, which gave us all luxuries that allow us to live better than the kings did before the IR.
That kid who is supported by taxpayers and raised by a mom who complains that "it ain't enough," the official motto of welfare dolees may have been the next Henry Ford, or Thomas Edison. But nearly all the great innovators started by working as children. We are killing this younger generation's spirit. COVID interrupted their educations, and allowed them to watch their parents sit at home all day as if everyone were on welfare.
The work will still be done and the innovations will continue, but by a shrinking percent of the population who will rule over their ignorant and lazy peers. Maybe the die was cast for that to eventually happen when the Industrial Revolution happened.
