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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
What do people need to taught? No one knows to get up, go to work an strive for something more as well as self improvement?
This is what bothers me about today's society. Your response (though more reasonable) like others is predicated on the idea of "it's not your fault" and that's where our economic problems start and end. Success used to be the goal. Now the successful are vilified. They are the enemy. So where do you go from there? No where. You raise taxes until you've drove the economy into the ground an blame the so-called "haves" for causing "have nots" and call it a day. California is a great example of this.
Losers don't want others to be successful. Losers hate success in others because it also shames them. We are creating a nation of selfish, self centered, narcissistic losers who's never going to think "I need to rise up", "I need to do better", "I need to better myself" Those thoughts never enter the narcissistic mind. Only blame does.
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I agree, but I don't know what the solution is... I'm not sure if there is any specific skill or idea that needs to be taught... but we need to strive towards less government subsidies, not more... we need to let people understand that government is not a cow that we can milk, that people need to be self-sufficient... we need to stop vilification of success, and start praising it instead... let people value success, and strive towards it, etc...
how to accomplish that is not clear... but good start is probably to move towards eliminating various subsidies, forcing people to become self sufficient....
I know... it all sounds like a pipe dream, realistically we are fucked, "loser-ness" is so ingrained into our society now, that any politician trying to make any positive change will surely fail...