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You chose the wrong profession if you wanted to make money. It was something to do with landscaping right? You probably chose it because you love it. But if not struggling and not being poor was your goal, you would have chosen a better profession. You are very smart and very pretty, a very good combination to have. I know you could easily make money if that's what you wanted!
Um. Well, I appreciate the compliment, but you basically just told me I could manipulate people by using my looks. Why is that better than making less money in an honest way? Is it just about making what you can, regardless? Most Americans in my generation started out by being told they could be whatever they want, and that they should go for it. I like landscaping, but I have to now - I was on the other side of many school loans before I realized that it wasn't a magical world of wonders just because I had a degree. Again, I am NOT saying that people should never make changes or should never try something else - I'm just saying that you don't know how or why things happen, and there isn't some express ticket out - like being a pretty girl.
Honest way? Really? What's the difference between using a genetic gift of intelligence vs a genetic gift of beauty? Are you implying that you are superior for using your gift of intelligence over people using their looks?
View original postMaybe you should read the plethora of studies that show attractive people get paid more and get more promotions. Go on, I'll wait.
Those people are probably willing to wiggle the bootie and/or throw around the smiles a little more often. I am not. In fact, I am the opposite. If I make something of myself, it is going to be by my talent.
View original postYes, actually, I do want a cookie. I'm on a diet and I've been jonesing for a cookie. People on foodstamps have made poor choices in life or they wouldn't be on foodstamps. The path to success begins with making smart choices. You have no room to complain if your choices led you to where you are. I would work 3 jobs before getting on fucking foodstamps.
You can work 3 jobs, presumably. What about the mother of three kids whose husband left her for the "pretty girl?" Does she deserve no help if she hits bottom and goes looking for it? Do her children deserve to suffer because of those "poor choices?" And again, is this rare?
Don't get me started on stay-at-home moms. What stupidity. Why on earth would any sane woman base their entire livelihood on one person? What if he does leave you? Or dies? Sheer stupidity, I just don't understand it. The times when a woman could stay at home are loooong gone. And it's totally unfair to make the man be the sole breadwinner.
View original postPeople take care of their children all the time, where did they get the money for that? And I have absolutely no sympathy for homeless people. They can't be redeemed. Ther are a blight on society.
And some people can take care of their kids by buying ramen noodles and clothes from walmart. Others have tens of thousands of dollars in hospital bills because of the handicapped individual they have given up their job to protect.
~Sigh~ You have no idea why any given individual is homeless. If we ... what? Started killing off people with mental illness, we'd be short a lot of people who turned out to be geniuses.
No, not killing. We just have to get use to the uneasy feeling we get when we pull up to a stoplight right next to a homeless bum. Eventually the situation will take care of itself.
That is not true. Why did you try so hard? Why did I? What were we thinking about the safety net at that point?
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