QUOTE(Uronacid @ Mar 27 2009, 12:42 PM)
In capitalism you're given the opportunity to make the best of your life or waste it
uhm. no. you're a dumb ignorant f*ck.
if you weren't born in your safe-white-suburban home, of course you wouldn't be saying anything like that.
the ghetto is a real & geographically divining power. if you are born into poverty, it is tremendously unlikely that you can rise out of destitution by mere will-power alone (that's given that "will-power to achieve" has been taught to you in the first place). you see, as white kids... we learned @ an early age the importance of education, office jobs, & rock & roll music. a lot of kids don't have that luxury (& yes, that is a luxury). try "learning yourself" when your school is pencil-less, your mother is sick (& can't afford health insurance) & can't work, so you have to pick up an after-school job that, eventually, turns into an other-than-school job, just so that you can feed yourself & your dying mother. where the f*ck is the time for "succeeding" in avoiding the drugs that are all around you, the violence outside your window (caused by class divide, & poverty), trying to get by, & not being able to attend a school (that is underfunded & sucks ass anyways)? like, don't you understand that poverty & failure is geographic & wealth & success is hereditary?
QUOTE(Uronacid @ Mar 27 2009, 12:42 PM)
I don't feel that society should have to pay for this.
pay for what? the violence, crime, sickness, & social ills caused by a class struggle - caused by a government that doesn't provide the necessities of life for its people? a society is better if its parts (the people that make up a society) are happy & healthy. there is a reason people rob one another & fight & die... & it's not because they have everything they need & feel safe. maslow's hierarchy (of needs) much?
QUOTE(Uronacid @ Mar 27 2009, 01:27 PM)
I have never seen anyone who's single, has a stable job, works every day, yet cannot get by.
then you a metric-f*ck-ton whiter than i could have ever imagined. not to mention stupid as f*ck... way to "educate yourself," dummy.
read "nickle & dimed" by barbara ehrenreich
QUOTE(Uronacid @ Mar 27 2009, 01:54 PM)
They still have the option to educate themselves.
QUOTE(Uronacid @ Mar 27 2009, 04:41 PM)
Education is a necessity. If you don't educate yourself then you will fail at life.
you realize someone needs to grow up in an environment that teaches that in order for it to actually happen? kids don't just succeed in school because they try their hardest & provide for themselves all of the proper equipment & motivation (needed) to succeed. they have to be taught by their environment to be good @ school, & be good @ being autodidactic. if you live in destitution, this sort of attitude (achievement oriented) is going to be very rare.
not to mention, no one gives a f*ck if you can do this or that... or know this or that... without a reputation & without a piece of paper (diploma) to demonstrate your aptitude, f*ck all to trying to get a job. & diplomas aren't f*cking cheap.
even if you can miraculously educate yourself... that doesn't mean you can do shit without a piece of paper that says you can "do shit."
QUOTE(PrinceGonnaChokeaBEECH @ Mar 28 2009, 04:07 PM)
URONACID... sounn lyke nosex n james..
dam REDNECK..
what the f*ck?! you're such a stupid mother f*cker. get the f*ck out.
p.s. did you two even read the first post of this thread? way to f*ck up!