Helping the common people

[Natural Citizen]

A good all around education, Trade and business education plus access to capital will help out common folks the best.

Yeah. But you have to be about it, rather than just talking about it. This is, of course, a choice on the part of a given Individual. Unfortunately, not so many are so motivated in this age of entitlement.

Add good all around health both physical,mental and spritual.

Yeah. That, too. It's probably why government goes so far out of its way to try as hard as it can to make the lives of productive people so miserable.

Government isn't interested in you being physically, mentally or spiritually sound. It's antithetical to its very forceful, antagonistic nature. It wants you in a constant state of fear, panic and a manufactured sense of dependence on it.

 

[TruthNotBS]

Most people would not work if we provided them everything you people think should be Human Rights. I, myself, would've spent my life playing RPG games had my Student Loan and Grants not run out. I find my next job because I am terrified of being homeless, and later in life because I was terrified of not supporting my family.

Most people aren't satisfied with the barebones minimum, apparently you are. Most people want to make something of themselves, and that doesn't necessarily imply that they want to become billionaires or multimillionaires. There are members of our military that make peanuts compared to what they could make in the private sector and yet they dedicate their lives to serving our country. When I was in the US Army, I was making peanuts, but I was a soldier, serving my country, and that made all of the work and sacrifices, worth it.

It's not all about the money. Most people want to imbue their lives with a purpose, and meaning. They want to have an important mission, something productive and significant to do. Possessing that is often more valuable than "the money". That in and of itself can constitute a person's wealth. Living life with a purpose and doing something important.

Every American should be born with inherent rights, and to suggest that you can be truly "free" to actualize your fullest potential while being impoverished, living in scarcity, without access to basic resources, is just stupid. If you want to EXCLUSIVELY spend your life playing Everquest or EVE ONLINE, well go right ahead. Every society has its dingleberries, it's worthless, lazy imbeciles, but in general, most people aren't like that. They're going to take the resources that society provides them with (public infrastructure, education, healthcare, basic housing if they need it), as a launching pad to propel themselves to a higher place and vantage point. They will make good use of the blessings, resources, and powers invested in them by their parents, their community, and their country, to grow and improve their state in life.

Unfortunately, you're not like that, but most people raised correctly, who had decent parents who inculcated a basic sense of ethics, healthy discipline, and responsibility into their children, are that way. The fact that your community or country wants to invest in you, certain rights and resources, doesn't in any way suggest, much less does it ensure that you're going to opt to spend your valuable life, playing video games in your parent's basement. Every society has its bad apples, but most people aren't that stupid. They don't want to just play video games, they're more ambitious than that. They want to be more than a hermit playing video games.

 

[Slyhunter]

Most people aren't satisfied with the barebones minimum, apparently you are. Most people want to make something of themselves, and that doesn't necessarily imply that they want to become billionaires or multimillionaires. There are members of our military that make peanuts compared to what they could make in the private sector and yet they dedicate their lives to serving our country. When I was in the US Army, I was making peanuts, but I was a soldier, serving my country, and that made all of the work and sacrifices, worth it.

It's not all about the money. Most people want to imbue their lives with a purpose, and meaning. They want to have an important mission, something productive and significant to do. Possessing that is often more valuable than "the money". That in and of itself can constitute a person's wealth. Living life with a purpose and doing something important.

Every American should be born with inherent rights, and to suggest that you can be truly "free" to actualize your fullest potential while being impoverished, living in scarcity, without access to basic resources, is just stupid. If you want to EXCLUSIVELY spend your life playing Everquest or EVE ONLINE, well go right ahead. Every society has its dingleberries, it's worthless, lazy imbeciles, but in general, most people aren't like that. They're going to take the resources that society provides them with (public infrastructure, education, healthcare, basic housing if they need it), as a launching pad to propel themselves to a higher place and vantage point. They will make good use of the blessings, resources, and powers invested in them by their parents, their community, and their country, to grow and improve their state in life.

Unfortunately, you're not like that, but most people raised correctly, who had decent parents who inculcated a basic sense of ethics, healthy discipline, and responsibility into their children, are that way. The fact that your community or country wants to invest in you, certain rights and resources, doesn't in any way suggest, much less does it ensure that you're going to opt to spend your valuable life, playing video games in your parent's basement. Every society has its bad apples, but most people aren't that stupid. They don't want to just play video games, they're more ambitious than that. They want to be more than a hermit playing video games.

Some feel they can never amount to much and quit trying.

 

[fncceo]

There's an old country song that goes like this in part," When politicians do what they say they going to do we will all be drinking that free bubble lug and eating that rainbow stew". The song in part makes fun of politicians promises and there is a certain amount of truth to it. Campaign after campaign Democrats promised to do this and do that and usually do nothing. If they really were interested in helping the common people, the working poor, they could do two things. The two biggest concerns of Lower income people are transportation and housing.

Making automobiles more affordable to maintain could be done by standardizing parts, in other words the government could mandate any car manufactured in the United States or imported would to have auto parts of about four different sizes. No matter what the brand of the car was it would fall into one of 4 sizes based on the engine size ranging from sizes like 1200 CC, 1600 CC, 2400 CC, and 4800 CC. Any part from any manufacturer would fit any other manufacturer's vehicle in the same size category; this would standardize parts and make them cheaper by taking advantage of economy of scale. An engine piston taken from any car would fit any engine of a car in that same size. The same would be true for things like tires. There would be exemption for super luxury cars like Rolls Royce.

Don't tell me that this legally can't be done the federal government can do anything that's not specifically prohibited by the constitution. The reason it most likely won't be done is because making cars more affordable would take some money out of the pockets of some individuals.

I’d rather not live in your beehive.

 

[fncceo]

Some feel they can never amount to much and quit trying.

In most cases, they’re probably right to do so.

 

[TruthNotBS]

Some feel they can never amount to much and quit trying.

Especially in our country now, but that's not the fault of socialism, but of a society ruled by profit-pursuing corporations, that lead us to war, not having affordable housing, education, healthcare, and a purpose in life other than chasing after money. We need to overhaul our economy and culture, to survive what's coming. Under the current system, we won't make it. much less thrive due to advanced automation and AI. Human wage labor is being replaced with this:

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All of the experts with few exceptions see the writing on the wall for human wage-labor. Capitalism relies on wages. Without that, there's no market or paying consumer, hence the supposed need for a "UBI":

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There's no need for a UBI, or for the government to hand everyone a monthly check. What we need is to own the means of production, together. Everyone owns the mines, factories, smart robots, AI, quantum supercomputers, nanotechnology. It all becomes our commonwealth, hence we are equal before the means of production. We're not equal in other ways, but as far as who owns the facilities and machinery of mass production, we are all together owners of those resources, hence no one can exploit or consign us to the compost heap. Without that common, collective, communal ownership of the assets of mass production we're reduced to worthless consumer serfs living off of a government check. That's what the big money capitalists want for you and me.

They want to reduce us to paying consumers who rely on a government handout, in order to maintain their wealth and power. It's their riches and control over resources that in their eyes takes precedence over you and me. It's to the detriment of 94% of the population. The working class comprises the vast majority of people, and we shouldn't allow capitalists, to reduce us to worthless consumer serfs, under techno-feudalism. If you have to choose between feudalism or democratic socialism, choose democratic socialism, where everyone owns the means of production, collectively. We all own it together.

 

[climate chang]

Employers are not masters. MAsters by definition OWN people

Employees and employers have a voluuntary agreement.

You are the brainwashed idiot, the average emoloyee is not.

I always laugh when people say we are "slaves."

 

[Slyhunter]

I always laugh when people say we are "slaves."

People think having to work for a living when all they want to do is lie around and play games is akin to slavery.

 

[longly]

;Anyway. Here's a question for the group. Who here has ever had to fabricate their own unobtanium parts? I've had to do it at least a few times.

I did it in Iceland; I had to make my own clutch cable since it wasn't available in the country.

 

[longly]

I once had to make gaskets for my carb and headers on a ford f100.

I've done that also. I use the cardboard from old cereal boxes, saturated the paper with heavy oil grease and remove the excess lubricants.