Alternative viewpoint: You do deserve to have things. Things like affordable higher ed, affordable healthcare, affordable housing, affordable transportation. You deserve guaranteed vacation and sick leave. You deserve paid maternity/paternity leave. You deserve a living wage. You deserve to eat, to drink, to have electricity, internet, and be able to have entertainment.
All of these things actually can be provided to you, easily, without society so much as breaking a sweat. It isn’t as difficult or expensive as any of these guys are desperately trying to make you think. Higher ed isn’t expensive once you throw out all the wasteful spending most administrations have become addicted to. Many medicines, if sold at cost, would be so cheap that most people could afford them, and if they couldn’t, society could take care of that cost and not even bat an eye. Housing is only expensive because of profiteering and market manipulation. Transportation is only expensive because we’ve designed society around the automobile, and by extension fossil fuels, and have fought tooth and nail to prevent better city designs and robust public transportation because, well, that stuff doesn’t make certain people lots of money.
How many countries fail to guarantee their workers sick leave? Maternity leave? How much vacation time is normal in other countries? What about their minimum wage? How do you think they “afford” it? Wanna know the dirty little secret?
The people there demanded it, so they got it. Because it was fair of them to ask for that much. Because it is fair to expect society to provide for society, because that’s the whole point of civilization. Because they didn’t sit there and let sad little trolls tell them that living in squalor isn’t just something that happens should not only be expected, but accepted.
I’m sorry things are harder for you than they were for guys like Prioleau. Let’s fix that for the next generations. Never forget what they took from you.
Paying rent is still stupid. My house has doubled in value since I purchased it and it’s paid off–thanks to making a payment and a half to double payments each month (pro tip kids–do NOT buy at the top of what you qualify for–then you can pay more on the rent as you’re able and will eventually pay your mortgage off sooner). It will also serve as a retirement asset for you later. Renters? They have no equity or assets if they pay rent all their working lives–it makes for an ugly retirement scenario.
I concur with most of this advice. Beyond your God given rights, you “deserve” nothing. As a business owner for 42 years now, I’ve experienced a lot of changes in employee attitudes, few of them good.
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Alternative viewpoint: You do deserve to have things. Things like affordable higher ed, affordable healthcare, affordable housing, affordable transportation. You deserve guaranteed vacation and sick leave. You deserve paid maternity/paternity leave. You deserve a living wage. You deserve to eat, to drink, to have electricity, internet, and be able to have entertainment.
All of these things actually can be provided to you, easily, without society so much as breaking a sweat. It isn’t as difficult or expensive as any of these guys are desperately trying to make you think. Higher ed isn’t expensive once you throw out all the wasteful spending most administrations have become addicted to. Many medicines, if sold at cost, would be so cheap that most people could afford them, and if they couldn’t, society could take care of that cost and not even bat an eye. Housing is only expensive because of profiteering and market manipulation. Transportation is only expensive because we’ve designed society around the automobile, and by extension fossil fuels, and have fought tooth and nail to prevent better city designs and robust public transportation because, well, that stuff doesn’t make certain people lots of money.
How many countries fail to guarantee their workers sick leave? Maternity leave? How much vacation time is normal in other countries? What about their minimum wage? How do you think they “afford” it? Wanna know the dirty little secret?
The people there demanded it, so they got it. Because it was fair of them to ask for that much. Because it is fair to expect society to provide for society, because that’s the whole point of civilization. Because they didn’t sit there and let sad little trolls tell them that living in squalor isn’t just something that happens should not only be expected, but accepted.
I’m sorry things are harder for you than they were for guys like Prioleau. Let’s fix that for the next generations. Never forget what they took from you.
Paying rent is still stupid. My house has doubled in value since I purchased it and it’s paid off–thanks to making a payment and a half to double payments each month (pro tip kids–do NOT buy at the top of what you qualify for–then you can pay more on the rent as you’re able and will eventually pay your mortgage off sooner). It will also serve as a retirement asset for you later. Renters? They have no equity or assets if they pay rent all their working lives–it makes for an ugly retirement scenario.
I concur with most of this advice. Beyond your God given rights, you “deserve” nothing. As a business owner for 42 years now, I’ve experienced a lot of changes in employee attitudes, few of them good.