Aethrwolf
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Posted - 2009.06.23 19:00:00 -
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Big part of America's problems stem from our (great)grandparents working themselves to death to make life "better" for their children/grandchildren, and mistaking easier for better. Easier can be the most insidious form of corruption in a society.
Not working in factories is easier, therefor must be better. With our manufacturing base going away, our economy has become more centered towards intangibles. Young ppl see their parents working in fields that dont require much in the way of physical labor and assume that working should be easy, when they get into the workforce and realize the nonphysical stress they find ways to avoid it, since their parents never took the time to explain the realities to them. So each generation finds more and more ways to avoid stress/responsibility.
Credit is easier (and faster) than saving for things, and therefor must be better. We see now how well that has really worked. And we have economists now saying that the credit markets MUST be revitalized or we face collapse, so ppl must be encouraged to use credit. My opinion there is "let us ****ing fall" we made the bed now let us sleep in it. Credit led to this on a large part, I say credit needs to be tightly enforced across the board with all types of credit subject to the same rules. (did you know that in the US, mortgage companies are the ONLY lenders that can totally refuse/return a partial payment? If any other type of credit company tries that you can sue them and have the debt wiped out?) Forcing companies to make credit available to everyone just exacerbates the issue. Allowing credit scores to affect interest instead of just availability works to trap those with poor credit into a loop of higher interest/miseed payment/higher interest. Allowing employers to check applicants credit scores in the hiring process and use the scores as a reason not to hire them (and yes, this DOES happen) makes the cycle even worse.
We've gotten to a stage that most of US society believes that easier=better. I honestly believe its become so ingrained that it will most likely take a complete collapse for that to change.
I dont feel a sense of entitlement, what I feel is a sense of outrage that people who make mistakes early in life have almost no chance to redeem themselves anymore in terms of economics and employment. What really ****es me off is that the US medical costs are so bad that employers actively search for legal reasons to get rid of or not to hire people with any medical issues. Japanese owned companies being the worst, theres a lot of japanese plants in this area and contrary to what one poster has stated, employees aren't highly motivated, they aare mostly FEAR motivated to be productive. Most of the plants in the area are in court with former employees constantly. I could rant more on this but I wont for now.
Part of the issues we face, not the worst but worth mentioning, is immigrants coming here with a desire for advancement that they couldn't get in their home countries but no desire to adopt any parts of the culture that allowed that to happen, I try to respect peoples' beliefs, but a lot of newcomers have no respect for ours. Our legal systems tend to treat them with kid gloves sometimes, too. After all its their "cultural heritage" and we must make allowances, even when some of those acts are blatantly illegal here. The US was supposed to be a "melting pot".. apparently we forgot that when melting different things together, you need to STIR.
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