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Originally Posted by InformedConsent
That means they should be working more to ensure their survival.
And, yes, bad things happen to good people (and actually all forms of life), and they don't survive. And that's unfortunate, but it's just all part of the natural selection and evolutionary process. It does no good to weaken the future of mankind and our society by interfering in the process of natural selection. That's just the hallmark of a society in decline. Is that the direction in which we wish our society to be going? We need to choose: Decline? Or evolutionary adaptation and progress?
This post reminds me of some one that lived in that other country from the 30s ... oh, what was his name? He was great leader, you'd think I'd remember.
In roughly 2001 - 2003 unemployment was on the rise. I was unemployed and I was not alone in my boat as employment benefits had been given an extension not just to me but for a lot of people across the U.S.
Charities were reporting a decline in contributions, because people who can't work, don't have anything left over at the end of the day, to contribute. One evening on the news I heard them say that the city food bank had one can of beans left on their shelf. Makes a person wonder what is wrong with people who will not allow their tax dollars to help, even them, in a time of need.
They say that a wake up call comes after a person has lost everything. Perhaps that is what it will take is another Great Depression and Great Loss, for the citizens in the U.S. to get their wake up call.
That's why one doesn't let oneself get caught unprepared. There's no way so many people should be living paycheck to paycheck. They should have savings for exactly such events. If they don't, they've been living beyond their means. No one's fault but their own.
Did you miss that part where the man, lost his job?
Let me say this again, until it sinks in... That's why one doesn't let oneself get caught unprepared. There's no way so many people should be living paycheck to paycheck. They should have savings for exactly such events. If they don't, they've been living beyond their means. No one's fault but their own.
No need to be humanitarian here ... it's just survival of the fittest, natures law. It brings out the true animal in all of us.
Being humanitarian is fine if the desired goal is to interfere with the natural selection process of evolution, thereby devolving humankind and society to the point of extinction. Just be sure that's what you want: an exponentially increasing downward spiral.
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That's why one doesn't let oneself get caught unprepared. There's no way so many people should be living paycheck to paycheck. They should have savings for exactly such events. If they don't, they've been living beyond their means. No one's fault but their own.
Most people have to live beyond their means, with housing costs and wages where they are, unless you expect people who make less than $50k/yr to either be homeless or live with Mom&Dad, people making $50k-$100k to share a one bedroom apartment, and people making $100k-$200k to live in a one bedroom or share a two bedroom
Most people have to live beyond their means, with housing costs and wages where they are, unless you expect people who make less than $50k/yr to either be homeless or live with Mom&Dad, people making $50k-$100k to share a one bedroom apartment, and people making $100k-$200k to live in a one bedroom or share a two bedroom
No, they don't. There's no reason to whatsoever, unless they have unrealistic lifestyle expectations.
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