I excluded people who are genuinely disabled or otherwise unable to seek work from my argument. So my numbers are wrong. It still doesn't stop me from disliking people who are allowed to live from the system just because they don't mind about lying to get it. I don't really care that it's impossible to figure out who these people are.
I don't respect problems with authority as a reason to be unemployed. Criminal records are a decision which results in consequences. Problems with authority are things that someone just needs to try hard enough to bite the bullet and overcome. Just because you don't like your boss doesn't mean that it's a good reason not to listen to them, within reason. Sure. If your boss tells you to put your hands in a fire, our you're fired, the job's not worth having. But if your boss tells you to go and get a box, you go and get the box. Similarly, problems with police is a problem with respecting the officers and the laws of society. People who don't respect the law and therefore can't get a job shouldn't be rewarded for it.
I know several people of about 40-55 who were born into very poor families who are now very wealthy. They somehow learnt that an education is important, picked up the social skills necessary to succeed and then did it. Not all of them pursued their success through academics. So if they can do it, why can't others? Their families were not atypical of poor families. So what's the catch? Education is supplied pretty thoroughly in Australia. So a lack of self-confidence is a more viable non-diagnosable reason to be unemployed, but most people lack self-confidence at some times in their lives.
I'm not saying that people don't deserve a certain standard of living, though I guess it sounds like it. I'm saying that I have little pity, tolerance or compassion for people who fail to make something of their life from choice, not those who are unable to. Just as I have little pity or compassion for people who don't look after their children, be they wealthy or no. I don't think people who have worked hard should have to pay undue amounts of tax. It's my opinion. It will probably change - most of my other opinions have, like thinking that eating meat is wrong. I now think not eating meat is retarded. But at the moment I despise people in general, and particularly people like my brother, who respect nothing and get away with far too much, because they don't care enough about anything to notice that they're doing the wrong thing and be affected by it. Wealthy people are pretty detestable in many ways as well. Greed is disgusting. But then, I'm pretty greedy about certain things. Nobody's perfect. But of course, it's difficult to see our own flaws sometimes. I'm pretty unhappy with my home life. Is it surprising that I blame other people?
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Date: 2008-01-10 04:46 am (UTC)I excluded people who are genuinely disabled or otherwise unable to seek work from my argument.
So my numbers are wrong. It still doesn't stop me from disliking people who are allowed to live from the system just because they don't mind about lying to get it. I don't really care that it's impossible to figure out who these people are.
I don't respect problems with authority as a reason to be unemployed. Criminal records are a decision which results in consequences. Problems with authority are things that someone just needs to try hard enough to bite the bullet and overcome. Just because you don't like your boss doesn't mean that it's a good reason not to listen to them, within reason. Sure. If your boss tells you to put your hands in a fire, our you're fired, the job's not worth having. But if your boss tells you to go and get a box, you go and get the box. Similarly, problems with police is a problem with respecting the officers and the laws of society. People who don't respect the law and therefore can't get a job shouldn't be rewarded for it.
I know several people of about 40-55 who were born into very poor families who are now very wealthy. They somehow learnt that an education is important, picked up the social skills necessary to succeed and then did it. Not all of them pursued their success through academics. So if they can do it, why can't others? Their families were not atypical of poor families. So what's the catch?
Education is supplied pretty thoroughly in Australia.
So a lack of self-confidence is a more viable non-diagnosable reason to be unemployed, but most people lack self-confidence at some times in their lives.
I'm not saying that people don't deserve a certain standard of living, though I guess it sounds like it. I'm saying that I have little pity, tolerance or compassion for people who fail to make something of their life from choice, not those who are unable to. Just as I have little pity or compassion for people who don't look after their children, be they wealthy or no. I don't think people who have worked hard should have to pay undue amounts of tax. It's my opinion. It will probably change - most of my other opinions have, like thinking that eating meat is wrong. I now think not eating meat is retarded. But at the moment I despise people in general, and particularly people like my brother, who respect nothing and get away with far too much, because they don't care enough about anything to notice that they're doing the wrong thing and be affected by it. Wealthy people are pretty detestable in many ways as well. Greed is disgusting. But then, I'm pretty greedy about certain things. Nobody's perfect. But of course, it's difficult to see our own flaws sometimes. I'm pretty unhappy with my home life. Is it surprising that I blame other people?