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"although we always had plenty to eat"
A: Have you ever sat around all day waiting for a phone call that may never come?
B: Have you ever lived in a very rural area with no means of public transport, few jobs, but rely on family? Was your family dysfunctional?
C: Did you have a mom AND a dad growing up.
D: Have you ever gone without food for a day at 10 YO because daddy is in jail and because mommy is out slutting around?
Sir, not everyone has the same kind of opportunities we as Americans do. Tell some Nigerian kid to start his own business, tell some Ugandan kid how you too are poor and tell him about your negative cash flow and your Chapter 11 Bankruptcy proceedings.
If you are born without a dad or a mom, that's one disadvantage right there. Before you even can walk, disadvantage
Are you white or black? If White, you enjoy the benefits of not being insulted based on your appearance, you have the benefit of not being called a racial slur every time you try to do something in life. It also helps that White names will look good on resumes and not getting shot in the leg (based on your skin color) will be good for your future book that you will write.
Did you or your family have LAND growing up? They did?, that's an advantage right there.
Did your parents think of college and such for you? They did. Another advantage. You probably had college tuition already made right there by the time you turn 18.
Was your first job out of high school a family owned business? It was? ANOTHER ADVANTAGE.
Did Nepotism and daddy's business connections land you employment?
Success is based mostly on luck, don't kid yourself.
If you have the advantages I spoke of, you have, a right but not an obligation, to speak on soul crushing poverty. Where kids have to go to school with a pistol in their trousers, where they have to fight someone every time they turn around, where they have to side with Gang A or Gang B because, if not, both gangs will hunt them down. You have no real room to talk about hard work and how no one (especially not your parents) owes you a thing.
Did your parentS help you get your first car? Another advantage
Did you live at home past 18 (probably not as you were likely born in a generation which had the creme de le crop of everything financial related, but for us, this is a reality)? Did you pay rent or bills? Advantage.
Did mommy and daddy buy you clothes, toys and so forth growing up? They did. Advantage.
Some people are not born with land already carved out for them. I do! Why should I be seen as higher than someone else without land for no other reason that "I was born to the right parents"? You Republicans would herald my father and me for working hard, not being NEETs and so on but you would bash the poor.
This is the issue I have.
My dad got us land because he had FULL TIME WORK when he was my age (18).
There is little full time work for people @ 18 now.
Let's say automation takes 90% of the jobs, and you say "what is up here peeps. How will we feed our kids?" I will say "Shut up dude, no one owes you anything. Your ribs are showing? Work harder. No one owes you a thing"
"It's the workers choice to stay, after all."
If I put a gun to your head and tell you give me oral, and you do. That's your choice. Right? You made a choice to go through with it.
It's not a choice if the choices are either life or death. Either stay and get paid peanuts or leave and watch as your kids go hungry.. not much of a choice is it?
> People are full of excuses, they don't want to move
Okay genius, let's say you weren't born with advantages. You are 18, have $150 in your bank account. No car. No help. HOW DO YOU MOVE? Rent, transportation, food.
> That's the only viable solution -- find a better way.
Every time someone proposes a better way, you (I think it was you, i'm too triggered now to check xD) just passively aggressive tell them to work harder, stop being lazy and how they did it. So you can too!.
Holy cow dude, I have the perfect opportunity for you. Find a publisher for your book "A Thousand and One Excuses". It'll be a runaway hit.