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Old 03-11-2014, 06:03 PM
 
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Anyone care to share what they mean when they say or hear the phrases, "No one owes you anything.", and "No one owes you a job."?

 
Old 03-11-2014, 06:09 PM
 
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Anyone care to share what they mean when they say or hear the phrases, "No one owes you anything.", and "No one owes you a job."?
It means that they are:

1. employed
2. believe that they themselves are entitled, but shutter at the "audacity" of someone else believing they should be given a right to work or want to work
3. they will probably be crying a river when they, themselves, find themselves in the job hunting war
 
Old 03-11-2014, 06:11 PM
 
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It seems fairly straightforward and unambiguous. What do you think it means?
 
Old 03-11-2014, 06:14 PM
 
Location: RI, MA, VT, WI, IL, CA, IN (that one sucked), KY
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Get rid of your sense of entitlement.
 
Old 03-11-2014, 06:15 PM
 
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It means that they are:

1. employed
2. believe that they themselves are entitled, but shutter at the "audacity" of someone else believing they should be given a right to work or want to work
3. they will probably be crying a river when they, themselves, find themselves in the job hunting war
Correct.
 
Old 03-11-2014, 06:15 PM
 
Location: southern california
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Its a reality attempt which most entitlement people will deny
Life is rough no guarantees Obama lied
You rent yourself out as a servant until u get old if u did a good job of that and did not give all the wages away to your ungrateful family u will be fine
But more than likely after u have paid for their college and fed them most of your life when u stop bringing home the bacon u become bacon
 
Old 03-11-2014, 06:17 PM
 
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What do you think it means?
"I don't give a damn about my fellow man/woman."

"I got mine. Sucks for you."

"Me, me, me, me... "

"I lack decency."

"I lack empathy."

"I worry about me and my family and everything else I can put the word 'my' in front of. Who gives a damn if someone else is sh1t out of luck."
 
Old 03-11-2014, 06:18 PM
 
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When I hear this lines, it amazes me how we reached or can sustain a higher civilization with such crass beliefs.
 
Old 03-11-2014, 06:19 PM
 
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Its a reality attempt which most entitlement people will deny
Life is rough no guarantees Obama lied
You rent yourself out as a servant until u get old if u did a good job of that and did not give all the wages away to your ungrateful family u will be fine
But more than likely after u have paid for their college and fed them most of your life when u stop bringing home the bacon u become bacon
Great post--thoughtful, lucid, and well written!
 
Old 03-11-2014, 06:19 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Anyone care to share what they mean when they say or hear the phrases, "No one owes you anything.", and "No one owes you a job."?
There's a popular conservative/libertarian narrative that holds that the job market is a meritocracy, so that anyone who can't get a job must not deserve one. People who complain about their job prospects are therefore nothing but a bunch of whiners. People who go around saying these things are basically Social Darwinists who have no empathy for others and no understanding of how the job market actually works.
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