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i seen this in the stratbook

GET IN YOUR FUCKING RUBBER ROOM

We have, for years, multiple times. EDIT: If you think i haven't argued with every single person in this thread for hours over the state of SG and where to go next you my friend, are not sadly mistaken, but ignorantly mistaken.

Except it's coming from people who have all put more than their fair share of time and effort into the place.

+1, I also agree with SpiritWind. Dom you know 100% what electric said was completely factual. I don't even need to argue with you about it. Anyone who's been promoted to BD and does what everyone who gets promoted to BD does, knows he's right. Most of us took part in it as well so we aren't clean, but don't sit there and act like what electric said was just complete bullshit and he's a pussy for using a VPN. Your just doing yourself a disservice.

They did

Thanks jazzy

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It sounds good and I'd be all for it if our country was filled with ethically and morally sound individuals. But we live in a society where it's common for people to pop out as many kids as they can, kick out the dad, for that sweet government paper. The more you give the more the shitty ones will take and in a population of 300 million+, maybe I'm just a pessimist, I'd say the majority of low wage workers would jump at the opportunity to do less and get more. Maybe controversial but, I'd rather them continue to lower their own quality of life and those they are responsible for, than lower mine and everyone elses in the form of being a drain on the system that they could otherwise not be if they had self motivation. I'll also provide this point which I had a discussion with someone, if you increase the minimum wage to your definition of "liveable" (not sure what you would set that as feel free to let me know as I'd say defining what liveable is in this case is something we should have done on page one), what happens if low skill workers are replaced by kiosks/computers. I'm not talking people who are already established in a career and their company swaps them out for a computer, they'll be fine, they've built a resume up. I'm talking about the cashier at mcdonalds who's worked 40 hours a week for the last 6 years while not learning any skills to improve their life, and they suddenly get replaced by a computer? We know it's just a matter of time anyway but increasing the minimum wage would seriously speed up this transition. We all know companies will increase their profits wherever feasible, why then would they not replace their cashiers at every location with the hot new system, retain maybe 5% just to have 1-2 people at each location in case something goes wrong? What happens to all those people who have spent the last few years doing nothing with their lives and making crap money at mcdonalds? They make slightly better money for 1-2 years and then can't get a job? They go get another low skilled minimum wage job? I would be curious to see what you define as a "liveable" wage, and what living conditions should be the "standard" that a "liveable" wage could fund.

I just don't understand what the problem is with taking accountability of your life and working towards it's betterment regardless of where you start. People have become successful with no help from all walks of life. People who aren't born here and grew up having less than everyone on this website are more successful than you are right now. How is that not your own fault?

I’m not reading all this

I can agree with the this first part to an extent. Sure where you come from effects how you view the world. However you need to think for yourself and look at the big picture in the world. You just said you could have had a better life but instead you had no discipline and chased hedonism and “your passion” and now you live life thinking it’s everyone else’s fault except your own. I was in a shitty situation, I enjoyed the people I worked with and believe me the mechanic and owners of that amusement park worked harder than all of your fast food workers. Unless you think tearing down a roller coaster and maintaining 15 other rides is easier than fast food service. point is you can chase your passion but if your passion doesn’t pay shit whose fault is it? Did you not research average salaries and upward movement in your job sector? I agree on a societal level you need idiots, however on an individual level you don’t have to be that idiot. Not all homeless people are the same, some have phones paid for by the government that they only use to jerk off on the side walk while your kids walk by, you want to save those? Lots have just straight given up and find it easier to be homeless, this is not debatable it’s a fact. The ones that don’t want to be where they are will put the effort in to get out of that situation and I agree they deserve some help, but I’d bet my bank account al of the people who recognize where they are and deserve that helping hand will recognize where they went wrong. Sometimes life hands you a bad set of cards and things happen outside of your control but if you look close enough you did something somewhere. If you can’t relate to that kind of attitude towards ultimate responsibility over your life and the decisions you made throughout life then we are fundamentally different and it would be pointless to keep going. I think your conclusion is noble and I’m willing to believe you want the best for people down on their luck but we live in a country filled with people waiting to take advantage of any help offered and be further of a drain on the system lowering everyone else’s quality of life as they have to pay more and more to subsidize shit decisions and lack of accountability by others. That’s too ingrained and in our society and it’s not going to change. If you want to keep fighting against the reality of where you live then it’s time to accept where you are based on your decisions or move to Germany. I would also say that the general longevity of happiness of people who think and live as you do is lower than that of people who think like me. When something goes wrong I blame me inspect what happen and find out where I went wrong and what I could have done to avoid that. People who think like you throw their hands up and say da gubbament!!