Very well said Judah! -----Original Message----- From: Judah McAuley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 4:42 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Mantra of the evil empire - If you don't have a job it's your own damn fault
I can respect your point of view but I see it differently. If you are out of work and go work your ass off to try and find a job you will (hopefully) solve the problem for yourself for an indeterminate amount of time. If you are out of work and go try to change the system, you will (hopefully) contribute to a solution to the problem for millions of people for an indeterminate amount of time. The first approach is easier in some ways, harder in others. The solution is inherently self-centered (not necessarily in a bad way, just saying that it is about you and yours). The second approach is easier in some ways and harder in others. The solution may be far more difficult to achieve but progress on it benefits much larger numbers of people and potentially for much longer periods. It is, however, also less likely to actually solve the problem for yourself, at least in the short term. In the end, I go for solution number one but I admire and respect those who go for solution number two. I think that it doesn't deserve the derision that many people (and most of the media) heap upon it and that it actually takes a hell of a lot of guts. More than I have right now. I'm all about scrapping together the pennies and eeking out the best living I can for my family. But the people who are out there trying to change a rigged system? They've got my support and I'm glad to see them challenging things that have gone unchallenged far too long. Cheers, Judah On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:45 AM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > You know what? > > If i lost my job tomorrow, i'd have two options: > > 1) Try to find another job in my field, or failing that, adapt > 2) Go sit out on Wall Street and blame someone else, all the while not > doing shit to actually help myself > > Even if I agree with the cause of protesters, I generally never agree > with protesting. Do something productive instead. Life isn't fair. Deal with it. > There will always be someone trying to screw you over. Today it might > be Wall Street bankers, but tomorrow it will be someone else. You can > spend all your time an energy bitching and moaning about everyone > trying to screw you, or you can quit your bitching and do your very > best to live in a world that just aint fair....and never will be. > > So yeah, I agree with the protester...i think these wall street > jerkoffs are assholes who've set this country back...but if i could > tell the protesters anything, it would be "shut the fuck up and get > back to work helping yourself". > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:343292 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
