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Originally Posted by willravel
But there were tribes as large as thousands of people, and in Central America there were cities of tens to possibly hundreds of thousands of people. I'm not Cherokee, but I love the history of Native Americans.
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Then you'd know that these larger tribes broke themselves up in to....cells, for lack of a better term. Smaller populations are built for a 'group' effort.
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Originally Posted by willravel
That's not how it works. I suppose you're one of those people who thinks that everyone who makes minimum wage is lazy. You assume that a good worker won't get laid off. You assume that the harder you work, the more you make. That's the failing of the capitalist mindset. It exists in a vacuum.
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You assume way too much. minimum wage earning doesn't mean one is lazy. There are many reasons why someone may be earning minimum wage, but I include laziness as one of them. I'm a damn good worker, I've been laid off. It happens when you work for someone else. Working for someone else puts you at THEIR discretion of whether or not they want you to work for them anymore. Just like you have the right to decide who you let in your house or not, a company owner has the right to decide who works for him or not.
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Originally Posted by willravel
You're okay with people starving or not being able to afford a home? You're okay with the 45,000,000 Americans without health insurance?
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I'm not ok with the government taking 18% of my money to help someone else, who makes less than I do, pay rent, get medical/dental insurance, pay for higher education, and/or get free groceries when I haven't had medical insurance for 13 years, my wife needs a heart transplant, the only working 4 wheeled vehicle I have has no AC, I can't afford my own fricking home, and I eat ramen noodles and hot dogs for lunch at work because it's cheaper than mcdonalds.
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Originally Posted by willravel
Wow, that's quite a non-answer.
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it's the most appropriate answer anyone else has ever given in this thread.