The rich do work for their money. You must not know many rich people. I know plenty. All of them work very hard. To say that they do not earn it is insane.
Also, profiting from the labor of others is called running a business. The business owner owns the means of production. They are entitled to profits earned from those means of production. That's capitalism 101.
If workers don't like their wages, they can quit. They agreed to work for that little. That's not exploitation. They're willingly deciding to work.
I don't care if you need help. Help yourself, just like everyone else has to.
The issue is that for millions of people they are born into a situation that they had no control over. There aint no way you can slice it that could possibly blame a baby for getting born into a shitty situation that wouldnt take your arguement into the side of silly-ass shit.
It is funny to me the hundreds of 20-something kids on here who went to economics class and walk around spoutin the glory of capitalism , it dont make me mad, but it does make me laugh. The viewpoint of the "fuck all yall, Ima take care of NUMBER ONE! I dont owe yall shit! Free market baby! Survivial of the fittest, yeaaa!" gets repeated on here all the time and 99 times out of 100 its the mark of some young-ass college student whose dick is hard for ayn rand.
Its a fuckin immature viewpoint, and I aint no goddamn hippy but i can tell you this. You do fuckin owe others. You got a responsibility to give half a shit as a human here on earth. I didnt learn that from nothin but my own experience in the years i been here and it proved it self well to me, trust that.
You spend long enough on this earth and you gonna eventually go thru some hard times. And you will realize that it might not be MONEY, it might not be public aid. But you do owe somethin to others, we all do. That fuck the world, Im the important one attitude sucks. And it aint cuz im a communist or some shit, cuz I aint. its just basic fucking human kindness, and I dont admire the folks who play that young-n-tough make-money capitalist shit--I just pity them, becuz its gonna really fuckin suck for yall when you realize that other ppls lives DO affect you, and that down the road you cant keep livin that way without negative consequences sometime. Whether you realize it now or later is the difference. also when some tragedy comes up on you and you end up really needin somebodys help and realize how foolish and short sighted all the shit u used to say is.
I been on the street, I been without a place to stay, I been hungry as a child, as a adolecent, as a teen ager, all thru growing up and not becuz my mother was irresponsible or my pops was no good becuz they worked hard and STILL COULD NOT MAKE ENDS MEET, cuz sometimes life SUCKS and is OUT OF YOUR CONTROL. Sometimes your house fuckin floods over and over and over several times a year and you cant get no insurance for it and cant afford to move and you gotta just keep gettin FUCKED and watchin your house get ruined. Sometimes your cars just keep breakin the fuck down every time you fix them, and its just one thing after the fuckin nother everydamnday. Sometimes you get hit by a driver who was not lookin at the road and slams into you at 55 mph and almost kills you, destroys ur car and u cant get no damn money becuz the insurance companies are cocksuckers and wont pay out even tho you got a police report sayin the other driver was 100% at fault, and you could not afford a luxury policy so you are injured and aint got a car, too hurt to work, and losin money. And I am suppose to believe that somehow, in that situation my family should not get a fuckin PENNY of state aid when we end up fuckin starvin our asses off in the cold, becuz WE PUR OURSELVES THERE???
As a kid it was not a un common thing to flip the light switch and get nothin. How was that my fault? How can you tell me that as a little ass kid that I didnt deserve to have fuckin, LIGHT, a WORKIN REFRIGERATOR becuz it was something *I* failed to do tha tput me there? My bad, as a 5 yr old should i have went and made up a great cover letter with my resume with all my activities from college and sent it to a local company and just been persistent till I got the job?
Growin up and even STILL, after i left home and then had to come back to my folks house when i could not afford to be out there no more, even still THIS WINTER I been livin with the heat turned off, no hot water, every couple days all winter long for as long as i can remember its like that. And I aint sayin that cuz u shoudl feel sorry, cuz u shouldnt and I know you dont have no relationship to me or know me and why would you feel sorry. That aint my point the point is that maybe if you had experienced some of these situations that YOU KNOW you didnt cause, you would not be so damn judgemental about how YOU PERSONALLY
BELIEVE that some people get there. (Which is pretty different from how they actually got there 90% of the time. sure there is the assholes and waste of life low life scum bags who just suck at life and totally deserve the life they got, but that is FARRRR from bein the majority. Its mostly ppl that COULD be YOU, but they had a couple different cards in their hand than you did and ended up somwhere worse.)
Anyways, enough about me, my point was to show how weak the arguement of "free market you get wat u deserve and u are responsible for where u at". you can come on BL and say shit like we should not have a single public assistance program becuz u clearly dont understand or choose to ignore or fuck if i know how it dont get into your equation,that removin all those programs creates huge issues with more homelessness, crime, drugs, etc. that you STILL END UP PAYING FOR ANYWAYS WITH YOUR TAXES thru incarceration, etc.
The part that should be attatched to the end of the "I believe in a capitalist country and thats how it works and you deserve to be responsible for yourself" is "I agree with this because I WAS BORN INTO A BETTER POSITION! I went to college, i had a up bringing in a well off family, and had all the advantages of the upper middle class american, but I TOTALLY DID ALL THAT MYSELF! It was my hard work that got me into college. It was my hard work that got me a good job. It didnt have a damn thing to do with the fact that the place i STARTED OUT AT, was 10 times higher than the place in life that millions of people will never even reach by the end of their life no matter how hard they try. And ME, gettin born into a good family and ending up where Im at in life--that was all me. I did that. Even tho if i had not started out where i did, it wouldnt be so likely, but i still take all the credit for my parents bank account balances when they fucked and had me."