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It all about accountability.....obviously some people understand what it means and some people dont.
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You'd say I don't understand accountability.
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accountability
n : responsibility to someone or for some activity [syn: answerability, answerableness]
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I disagree: I believe by working according to this system's ethic I can be held accountable for supporting this system. "All evil requires is that good men do nothing" and all.
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Its the people that dont that my tax dollars (here in the US) pay for when they go on welfare cause they dont "feel" like working.
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I've been on the dole (UK unemployment benefits) and hated it. Not because I was living off the charity of the government, cause I felt I was getting all that money I was taxed on my fags back. I hated it because they never gave enough to exist. Seriously, you try living off £55* a week. Just because you are unable to find work doesn't mean you should starve (yup, couldn't afford to buy decent food), or be cold (yup, couldn't afford to have the heating on), or have a shitty time. It forces those on the dole, who have genuine difficulty finding work**, into a situation were they have even less chance of finding work. In my case, I didn't have the cash to get some decent threads for an interview, which really helps with getting a job.
But I'm not the people you're talking about. I didn't go on benefits 'cause I felt like it. You can see my sorry story below.
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It really infuriates me that someone thinks their job needs to be more understanding because they want to stay home and "play games" thats what earned vacation days are for.
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Doesn't it seem odd to you that you have to work forty-odd weeks to get four off? Would you say that four weeks of free time was worth the forty-odd weeks working?Doesn't it seem weird that our society is geared to making sure people spend the majority of their lives making the rich richer? I'm of a very different mindset to you, my belief is that humanity's purpose is to have a good time. We are here to party. If there are people who's environment prevents them from partying, it should be changed. That is the work I am prepared to do.
As a reference, care to put your age in a bracket? Nothing too specific, just the decade you were born in. Where's Ga, btw?
* About $105.
** Personal experience. I lost a job because of a whacky rape allegation. Their fucking reason for firing me: "You're a temp, and you'll need time off for court. Time we're not prepared to give you. Bye." So, I lose my job because of this, a massive blow to the confidence. Then the dole office can't understand why I don't really feel motivated into getting a job. Bear in mind that most job applications ask about criminal convictions, so an honest mofo like myself is going to ask whether being arrested and waiting for the damn thing to come down needs to be noted. Imagine how many jobs that lost me, before I had to compromise and lie. You can understand when my liberty is threatened, my social life destroyed and my honour besmirched, I'm not going to consider cleaning toilets. Life's bad enough, you know?