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Who's fault is it that you have a job you don't like? What your idea of "living comfortably" might not be an accurate description. Why not go hit up some 60-year old Russians, and ask them how "comfortable" they lived in the USSR?
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It's the systems fault man!! LOL
No, it really is. A little story:
I've always wanted to be a gravedigger (morbid i know). I'm comfortable around the dead, I'm very respectful and i love digging holes (don't ask why, i just do). It's my dream job. Now i understand there just aren't many vacancies at the moment but what pisses me off is that so many people hate therre jobs (and i can't s wee grave digging being a exception). Why do people get stuck in roles they hate when there are always people who would envy their job? I can't be a gravedigger because the vacancies are taken by people who need the money, not because they want to do it.
If we could all just do what we enjoyed, instead of being forced into roles then not only would people be happier but it'd be so much more efficient because people would actually want to work.
And i'm not calling for the USSR. No-one but the CP on the left had supported the USSR for along time.
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What you propose here is anarchy. Again...did Mr. 60-year old Russian have that kind of freedom to change his government?
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To right it is. My ideology is a mesh of Marxism and anarchy. Equality and freedom go hand in hand.
You'll find, if you talk to a socialist, that most call for power to be devolved to lowest level. A bottom up approach.
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But what if everyone around you is repulsed by watching you toke hippie lettuce, naked in the park? Is your right to do it more important than their right to have to watch some naked pothead in public? Socialism dictates you stomping that "J" out, and putting on some clothes. Majority rules, my friend. You know..."the Common Good," and all that B.S.
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I'm repulsed by attractive women wearing clothes. What about my right not to be offended?
Not to sound patronizing but i know the socialist ways a bit better than you and it certainly isn't majority rules, case closed. As you like bringing up the USSR so much, then take this example from when USSR was vaguely socialist: Legalization of homosexuality, way before western countries. Gay people? A minority, and certain people argue being gay is against the 'common good' but at the end of the day, they were protected and given rights (till Stalin came along of course).
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Whether you like it, or accept it, or not...."rich people" make the world go 'round. You might have "Jeremiah-like" hate for Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but I'm betting one of them owns that software that's running your computer. I'll bet some "rich" guy had the ambition to start the company that built your car (but then again...you're a pothead...you might not own one). Face it...rich folks will ALWAYS be more important than the dregs. Otherwise, your country's economy would collapse because everyone would be laying out naked in the park, getting baked.
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Do you know how many people can, could and have written windows like programs? But they don't get anywhere regardless of how good it is, was, could be. Microsoft has a monopoly on it and isn't going to let anyone else challenge it. Why should they? That isn't good for humanity, hell maybe even political forum would load at a decent rate if things were different.
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a) None of the lowly factory workers have enough ambition to enjoy the same rights as those who have far more responsibility. They're "rich" because they're rewarded for accepting the responsibility.
b) If everyone had an equal share, then who will rise above the dregs, to run the factory? Certainly not anyone who gets paid the same as they do. In exchange for being the "leader," and accepting heightened responsibility, they are rewarded with higher pay and perks.
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There's probably a fair few 'lowly' factory workers who would like to be manager and would be good at it. But if everyone was a manager then the factory wouldn't make anything would it? That what annoys me. There's not infinite space at the top. Not everyone can be rich. No matter how they hard they work some people aren't going to make it. And some will make it just cos they've got a rich dad. That's not fair and needs to be changed.
As for B) some people like to manage some people don't. There's many a person who would love the chance to tell people what needs to be done. Even if there no pay raise.
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Let me get back to you with this one...I don't speak "Queen's English slang."
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To be skint is to have no money.
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Chances are...you're probably getting the fair share of the fruits of your labor.
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Or maybe not. I make something and it's worth a few quid but for my boss to make a profit he's going have to have to take a share of that few quid. I'm not getting back what i'm worth. Now i could live with that, after all his job maybe necessary. I just don't get why he gets a bigger slice than me.
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I get it now. You DON'T want to be a manager...just get all their benefits. That's (ahem) bollocks. Get some freakin' ambition, put away your hippie lettuce, adopt some good work skills, and maybe you'll start seeing those benefits roll in. EARN what you want. Don't STEAL them away from those who probably are working harder than you.
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I get it now, you want money, but you don't want to have to actually work, you just want to sit in a swivel chair all day. Go get a real job and be useful.
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...and before you start defending your "lifestyle," I must say that I am 100% for the legalization of hippie lettuce. However, I also view those who use it to be unmotivated, and usually "poor" by their own devices (namely, blowing all their money by being a pothead). So maybe, once again, you're getting your fair share of the fruits of your labor.
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Yep poor people are poor because there lazy. It's perfectly possible to climb the ladder. That's why so many African plantation workers end up being CEO's
