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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by pan6467
That truly is commendable Cyn. But not everyone has the drive you do, so we should punish people for just being happy to have a job where they can afford to live decently?
I find the argument that "if one wants better they will strive for it" very degrading, judgemental and assuming that EVERYONE has the same oppurtunities, background etc. as the one who made it.
I don't buy that BS. Cyn you are a very intelligent man and what drives you may not drive someone else. It isn't he/she is lazy but life may have happened and he/she may have kids, made a mistake somewhere along the road (quit school, committed a crime when he was young, had a severe illness, poor credit, whatever etc.) where a decent job can't be had, and so on. Do you suggest these people get stuck in a job they cannot afford to live but cannot afford to quit either be punished with those low wages because they fucked up in their past and made a mistake and thus are not worthy to advance?
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I have had my run ins with bad luck and had my setbacks, I have lost my job several times and had to bounce back.
But again, you state "But not everyone has the drive you do, so we should punish people for just being happy to have a job where they can afford to live decently?" does that not imply then you wish for someone to have the same level as for someone else who worked hard for it? In the logic I follow from your writing it does.
As a manager of many people at one time, I had to motivate the over achiever along with the slacker. I tell you it was not fair to the achiever that the same merit increases had to be doled out to the slacker as the achiever. What would ever motivate someone then? Why should someone strive when to not strive they still get the same raise? Again, capitalism is not fair, as is life. We do not get to pick and choose what family we are born, we do not get to pick what country we are born. It is unfortunate, but that is a fact.
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