[ejacob3]

It is interesting to speak with people about just living sometimes. It seems to me that everyone has a sense of entitlement or a right to something due to their accomplishments.

Example, if I went to college, do I have an entitlement to a job with a pension?

If I live in America, do I have the natural born right to home and car ownership?

The scary thing is that the last few generations blindly believe in entitlement rights. It seems to me that their thinking is completely tunnel vision and they cannot think of any other type of existence.

Funny to think that most Americans have no clue as to how the rest of the world lives. I didn't get my first eye opener until I went to Africa for an extended holiday with the Marines in the early nineties.

Since then my thinking has expanded to not only the living of the out of sight and out of mind but the unborn. Stop and think about future generations and what they're entitlements are. Are we justified in our wants and needs and entitlements or are we hypocrites preaching do unto others if they are looking and screw them if they are not.

End Rant

[sdcoyote]

While those individuals who think the world owes them a living bother me...what bothers me even more is corporations who harbor this sense of entitlement bother me even more.

WalMart just moved to our town. The received tax breaks, road construction (stop lights, etc) and all manner of "entitlements" so they would come here to do business.

Folks give wealthy, corporate NFL owners all kinds of goodies to bring in a team.

The sense of entitlement you are talking about really travels all the way up the food chain.

[Eli]

ejac

I am right there with you. Anyone born after the great depression does not know what life can be like.

I think this true in Europe and the US.

My grandfather stole milk off of front porches to feed his starving little brother. They used the top of Crisco cans for plates and used tin cans for cups and at one point were forced to eat Opossum just to survive.

The problem is that if you asked people about the great depression many would have no idea what you were talking about. The ones that did know would have no concept of how bad the depression actually was and think that it can never happen again.

We are all in for a very rude awakening and it is long over due.

[frankthetank]

I've noticed that a lot of the high school aged kids i come in contact with think that they will live the same way there parents do. Go to college, find a good paying job, big house, suv.

I think a lot of them don't realize the amt of debt that the parents have.

To assume the world owes you something is a mistake. Mother nature doesn't care who you are, where you come from...she'll spit you out just like the next guy.

In the long run, humans are really screwed.

[Snowrunner]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('frankthetank', 'I')n the long run, humans are really screwed.

[hull3551]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('frankthetank', 'I')'ve noticed that a lot of the high school aged kids i come in contact with think that they will live the same way there parents do. Go to college, find a good paying job, big house, suv....

[DesertBear2]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hull3551', '
')I am amazed at my contemporaries that work sixty+ hour work weeks. I guess it's a trade off, but I don't really mind driving a '98 VW and having tons of free time. Suckers.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hull3551', '
')
I am amazed at my contemporaries that work sixty+ hour work weeks.

[frankthetank]

I work between 35-40hrs...a pay period...

ha...

I get so much crap for it...that there have been a few times where i wanted to tell people to lick my stinky "10+mile road bike ballz"...

I figure i probably will be working the fields someday, might as well enjoy it while i can. No way i'm diving into a new housing unit at this time. Will probably just run into the wilderness or head west and relocate when the neighbors start to act up...wait...before they act up!

[Snowrunner]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('frankthetank', 'I') work between 35-40hrs...a pay period...

ha...

I get so much crap for it...that there have been a few times where i wanted to tell people to lick my stinky "10+mile road bike ballz"...

I figure i probably will be working the fields someday, might as well enjoy it while i can. No way i'm diving into a new housing unit at this time. Will probably just run into the wilderness or head west and relocate when the neighbors start to act up...wait...before they act up!

[hull3551]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '
')I'm completely baffled by people who do this just so they can have a lot of "stuff."

[ejacob3]

I think that I have finally found a group of slacker heretics that think like me.

I personally idolize the African Bushman way of life. They are true nomatic land romers whom all over our DNA can be traced back to.

I think I will have to be more of a Mad Max pycopath in order to survive though. It is a completely crass way to think but the survial will depend on a brute force with no mercy.

[strider3700]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hull3551', '
')My view: Never live a lifestyle based on more than ten bucks an hour. Anything more is gravy.

[Snowrunner]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('strider3700', 'H')ow the world lives with something like debt hanging over their heads I don't know. My mortgage is tiny compaired to many and it keeps me up at times.

[cube]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ejacob3', 'I')t is interesting to speak with people about just living sometimes. It seems to me that everyone has a sense of entitlement or a right to something due to their accomplishments.
...........

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ejacob3', '
')
I think I will have to be more of a Mad Max pycopath in order to survive though. It is a completely crass way to think but the survial will depend on a brute force with no mercy.

[I_Like_Plants]

I dunno, I grew up in the 1970s, not the Great Depression but pretty godamned close. Hunger, walking everywhere, no money, cleaning a yard or anything I could do so the family could eat thanks to my 14-year old self, etc. I didn't get a drivers license until I was 30, although I did have a motorcycle and license for that when I was 22 or 23 I forget. Much cheaper vehicle.

There are a whole lot of us who are hard as nails, have slept on the floor because we could not afford a bed, scrounged dumpsters, worked 60 hours at a job that used to be considered skilled work and still is but is paid shit, and learned early and were reminded often that if you're white, everything you do is considered a crime and everything you have is considered stolen from those of more "worthy" skin colors.

We will be the shock troops of the future!

[pilferage]

OP, you are human. You are entitled to one thing. Death.

[GoIllini]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'I') dunno, I grew up in the 1970s, not the Great Depression but pretty godamned close. Hunger, walking everywhere, no money, cleaning a yard or anything I could do so the family could eat thanks to my 14-year old self, etc. I didn't get a drivers license until I was 30, although I did have a motorcycle and license for that when I was 22 or 23 I forget. Much cheaper vehicle.

There are a whole lot of us who are hard as nails, have slept on the floor because we could not afford a bed, scrounged dumpsters, worked 60 hours at a job that used to be considered skilled work and still is but is paid shit, and learned early and were reminded often that if you're white, everything you do is considered a crime and everything you have is considered stolen from those of more "worthy" skin colors.

We will be the shock troops of the future!

[medicvet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 't')here have been a few times where i wanted to tell people to lick my stinky "10+mile road bike ballz"...