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The United States is a cruel place to live if you’re poor. Businesses think they are entitled to desperate labor at rock bottom prices, and a large part of the
by ChrisLTD 5y ago
The United States is a cruel place to live if you’re poor. Businesses think they are entitled to desperate labor at rock bottom prices, and a large part of the country’s leadership is happy to help.
- drstewart 5y agoSo cruel that 1.8m are living off government payments for a year while being able to turn down offers of work.
- imtringued 5y agoYeah those employers managed to pull wages down so much they cant even compete with unemployment benefits.
- drstewart 5y agoGovernment benefits are so good they're better than working for a living
- merpnderp 5y agoAnd yet university enrollment is down 25% at my local uni. If you’re poor and have nothing to do for months and aren’t making your labor worth more by gaining skills, why should people have sympathy. Are people born entitled to live off society without contributing if they can?
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- jtbayly 5y agoPerhaps because the cost/benefit analysis of universities continues to go in the wrong direction?
- imtringued 5y ago>Are people born entitled to live off society without contributing if they can? If that is what the current state of society demands. Yes, absolutely. We could change it but there is a reason why things are the way they are and they have absolutely nothing to do with calm and rational thinking.
- sofixa 5y ago> And yet university enrollment is down 25% at my local uni. If you’re poor and have nothing to do for months and aren’t making your labor worth more by gaining skills, why should people have sympathy Doesn't that mean taking on serious debt? Maybe people are reluctant to do that in a difficult economic situation. Not to mention there are other ways to gain skills other than going to a university.