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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
Why should they bother? There are endless government handouts.
It use to be shameful to not work and support yourself and/or family. Now it appears there is more shame in working at McDonalds (or other low end jobs) then sitting at home smoking, watching MTV cribs, and sitting on your fat ass.
Working those sort of jobs, in their mind, is somehow "beneath them". Yet sitting around collecting government handouts isn't.
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Where are these gouvernement hand outs ? Because I want one. The only handouts the gouverment is giving is to multi national corporations that kill jobs and export work to third world nations.
I am a grandfather and I will tell you what is behind what I said.
- 1) We do not support jobs in our own nations
All the webkiddie toys that people line up to buy.
These toys are manufactured in China and all the money that should stay in our nations goes there. End result... Go work at McDonalds
- 2) The do-it-for-you technology.
Garbage technology that gives unskilled dummies the ablity to to do the job of a tradesman.
A good example of what I am talking about is the average photographer in today's porn industry. When was the last time any of them know what an F-Stop was? Or how to turn the automatic setting off? Today's photography equipment is a billion mega pixels high tech piece of technology designed to be used by a chimpanzee
End result... A trained photographer will whore themself for pennies.
- 3) The Internet (big one here)
It kills innovation.
When the little independant inventor, film maker, musicien, etc. Can not make a dollar to pay their bills because of piracy. They give up and go get McJobs
It makes people lazy.
Even car sales are down because there are now millions of people that never leave their houses. And it is not just car sales.. It is resturants, theatres, etc.
It kills freedom of speach.
Look at yahoo as a good exemple. eg. * This comment is hidden due to low rating.* If you do not share the popular opinion you get silenced. That is what all this facebook, yahoo, etc likes and thumbs up are all about. *censorship*
Or..
Another exemples is the forums. 10 people having a conversation but some idiot that has nothing good to contribute starts complaining and find some moron that is bored. So they start to argue. Then 3 people that have no sense to ignore them also start complaining and the entire conversation gets terminated or abandoned.
Or...
There is garbage like HBGary Federal and persona management software where 1 person can appear to be a thousand. Similar software used by huge cyber firms paid by multi-national companies and gouvernements to slander, smeer and mock anyone showing any intelligence.
It makes people stupid...
Look at the occupy mouvement as an exemple. They actually believed that by just occupying a public place and facebooking or blogging they could take down a gouvernement.
It kills jobs....
Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Groupon earn more than 80 billion dollars each year. But they employ less than 18thousand people world wide. When you consider how jobs they have destroyed.
It has increased corruption..
I love this statistic. Because of the Internet, fiscal fraud has become the fith largest nation in the world.
- 4) The handheld gadgets...
Have made an entire generation illiterate idiots....
What started with computers and spell check has now finished with "texting". A dictionary will soon be needed to bridge the generation gap.
Create social morons...
I can not imagine how many times I have seen a good looking young man sitting in a park or someone place else playing with his "gadget" suring female facebook profiles while lots of attractive young ladies are nearby.
Add to the gadgets the following...
Having to be careful of bringing attention to yourself in public because some asshole with a camera will take your picture.
No one being able to read a lousy map.
Family photo memories are now on gadgets and tend to only last until the next upgrade
Am I mad ? Of course I am ! I have grand children and I would like to see them have a good future too. But the majority of the world is a bunch of dummies that just keep feeding into a system that destroys their lives instead of just abandoing it.
In the end a giant solar flare would do the world some good. Unfortunately 90% of the people living in western nations would die from hunger and exposure because they have no skills other than to push buttons.