What have I done that is unfair?Seriously? That is your answer? Ok, I'll play along.I saw how my way, where my father made a good living working for a union company, produced a middle class the world has never seen before.You still didn't answer the question. Why isn't it right or fair? What is wrong about competition? Isn't that how it works in the natural world?It's why people first moved to America. To escape that kind of society. Your way would produce a small rich class, small merchant class and large poor class called the rabble.Why isn't it right or fair?
Today we do things more your way. How is it working out?
71 percent of Americans aren’t saving enough for retirement
And you want to cut social security by 30%.
How do you think our economy will be when 70% of our seniors are broke? Maybe if they made more or had pensions the future wouldn't look so bleak to me.
Its simple. I see your way doesn't work. And for a million reasons it's also not fair. For one thing, you and I made it in a different system. Who knows how you would have turned out if you grew up in an every man for himself society where school was unaffordable? Or who knows how your dad would have made it and then that would have impacted you. Or maybe you don't see that.
What exactly does that prove? Because I believe it means that we had better values back then than we do now. Values like virtue and accountability. Was your father an accountable man or did he blame things on others as you do? was your father a virtuous man? Or did he cheat, steal and lie?I saw how my way, where my father made a good living working for a union company, produced a middle class the world has never seen before.
You mean like being accountable and virtuous? I don't cheat, steal or lie. I treat others with respect. I am compassionate , caring and giving. I don't blame others for my failures. I am accountable and learn from my mistakes. I don't rationalize my sins. Yes, that is working out very well for me. I have several million in the bank and have no debt. I have reaped what I have sown.Today we do things more your way. How is it working out?
I actually love my job and going to work. I could retire tomorrow if I wanted to but prefer to keep working. I have reaped what I have sown.71 percent of Americans aren’t saving enough for retirement
How do you think our economy will be when 70% of our seniors are broke? Maybe if they made more or had pensions the future wouldn't look so bleak to me.
Not all behaviors lead to equal outcomes. Why is it so hard for you to understand this? Is it really a surprise that someone who works harder and saves his money is better prepared than someone who does not? Do you really believe people who succeed are lucky or cheated? Is that what your father did? Is that what your brother did? You have a serious external locus of control to believe as you do. Adapt, improvise overcome. Stop waiting for your government to save you. They won't.
Its simple. I see your way doesn't work. And for a million reasons it's also not fair. For one thing, you and I made it in a different system. Who knows how you would have turned out if you grew up in an every man for himself society where school was unaffordable? Or who knows how your dad would have made it and then that would have impacted you. Or maybe you don't see that.
My way does work. It is your way that doesn't work. How is it not fair to reap what you sow?
Don't expect us non millionaires to want to go along with what you millionaires think is fair. You don't even have a clue as to how you grew up in a society that allowed you to become a millionaire, and now you want to make it harder for the people today.
Millionaires think they were born in the house they built with their own two hands.