DarienA said:
That makes them no less pathetic.
Darien..
What you fail to understand is that people have this stupid idea that b/c you're a low-wage earner in the ghetto that your job is easy and want tp spire Ice Cube for where he came from. Bull-fucking-shit! Work a job in the service industry and understand just how absolutely shitty it is relying on the gratitude of total douchebags to make a living.
Yes, they spun their wheels and fucked up high school or college or whatever the fuck it was. Big, fucking deal. Education shouldn't dictate the haves and have nots. It only widens the gap, it doesn't help. I consider myself an intellectual. Did what it took to get a full ride to college, where I pretty much squandered it on drugs and alcohol. I got by on mid-class grades and now I teach. I'm happy with what I do, and my job is probably the easiest thing I could ever do. And I earn a decent salary for it. But I'm not gonna hold myself about someone at McDonalds or the janitor who cleans our bathrooms. Without these jobs, what the hell would we do? Would the brainiacs bust out the mops and start swabbing the halls? HA! Without the so-called "low-lifes" our smart-ass jobs would be torture. I'd have to deal with 30 kids in absolute squalor. I think society tries far too hard to break people down into classes with different priveleges. We should view all jobs as equal, b/c honestly, they all require a lot of effort Work is hardly ever fun, and I'd wager that service jobs are among the worst in the world.
When I look at some of my friends. Some are working tech jobs, making loot. Some are working odd jobs, just trying to get by. We're all after the same thing, a better quality of life. Considering all jobs as a whole in this social machine, I can't look at any of them as different. Pay equality. That CEO has not done a damn thing more to earn those millions. We should stop fooling ourselves into thinking they have. Most people get their jobs through connections. There's nothing in this world that says that if you work hard, you will be rewarded. It's largely the luck of the draw. Why not pay everyone fairly so there's one less thing for everyone worry about? Oh, and quit this inane balancing act we call a capitalist economy. Ooops, economy going up, gotta raise inflation. Ooops, costs too high, let's drop interest rates. Whoops, not making enough money let's fuck with people some more. *yawn* A pathetic cycle if you ask me. Just give everyone the same, flat wage. Lower prices to cost and get off this drug called growth. It's too easy for an exec to cut a bunch of jobs to hit some artificial growth figure at the end of the year. Fuck 'em. It's the socialist in me.
