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Originally Posted by Robbie
So what's keeping that guy from working online? This is the information age...and we are moving into an information economy.
I'm sitting in a chair typing shit on a keyboard and making money. Your friend can too.
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Both of them are bi-polar.
Charlie, the drunk is a former construction tradesman who is too old to work physically -- useless drunk and computer illiterate. Lives in a marginally employed guy's basement -- literally. He only wants to make beer money doing side jobs helping a bi-polar prescription drug addicted early retiree from GM. Charlie gets $260 EBT + Medicaid.
The other, Bill, can program HTML, PHP, MySQL and does do that work for cash on the side along with his trailer concession revenue. He just wants to game the system I guess. $400 disability SSI +Medicare+$260 EBT/mo and what he can earn on the side.
I don't get it either why anyone would want to live that way -- I guess they are just nuts
I spent over 10 years hiring construction laborers -- they are not exactly creme of the crop society. If you had 5 laborers 4 might show up to work. The 5th guy was too hungover, in jail for child support, yada yada ...