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Jonatello
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Everything you said to frame your “jealousy” slant is mythological though. The facts don’t support any of these unfair claims about OWS or struggling people.jonatello, I appreciate you being honest enough to tell me you didn’t bother reading. I respectfully disagree, though. like I pointed out before, it’s a completely different ideology. a completely different worldview. some people think the government exists to save them from themselves and refuse to take control of their lives. no job? get unemployment. don’t save during the working years? get social security. and when the money isn’t enough to live at whatever standard they’ve set for themselves, they complain that they deserve more, that there are people with more money who should be paying more taxes in order to fund the programs they rely on. keeping people dependent on the government was the best thing the democrat party could ever have done to keep their voter base constant. why bother working hard and sacrificing and accepting that sometimes life sucks when the government hands money out like there’s no tomorrow?
maybe some people don’t realize it’s jealousy, but that’s exactly what it is. they don’t see their life as a result of the choices they’ve made, but as a result of what others have done to them. by constantly playing victim they absolve themselves of the need to better themselves by their own power. their situation is, and always will be, someone else’s fault, and therefore it’s only fair that the government punish the people they perceive as the oppressors (in this case by higher taxes). it’s basic human nature to make excuses for oneself, but that doesn’t make it right.
If I can find time later, I’ll elaborate, but unfortunately with this one, it’s going to require an answer for virtually every sentence you’ve written lol
all day because he didn’t want to make pizza, I don’t care how hungry he is. and john shouldn’t come by and force rob or paul to share. if he has a legit excuse (he had to use the pizza money for bus fare to visit his mother in the hospital), rob and paul will share because they’re decent guys. if he used the money for a beer on the way home from work, rob and paul might share, maybe in exchange for marcus washing all the dishes instead of just his own. but if it’s been a month straight of pizza-money-for-post-work-beer, they’re well within their right to let him go hungry because it’s clear he values his beer more than his part in contributing to the pizza. john will want to redistribute the pizza, but his method of doing so would be to toss it across the room, where it has a very high chance of landing on the floor, so he’d have to take more from rob and paul to make up for the wasted pieces. in conclusion: if you don’t help make pizza you don’t deserve any, if you have an excuse, how much pizza you get needs to be determined on a case by case basis, and if john gets involved much pizza will be wasted.
last week the priest was like, “nope, let’s try again…” several times. despite there being sheets to follow along with. 