Compromised said:
Quite full of yourself, are you not? You don't think that people on this board work? You think that you are the only person that has to study hard, work hard etc? So what if you have been working since you were 5, that does not mean that you are somehow magically endowed with the ability to reason better than others, or that you are somehow in a position to better understand the reality of the world.
As for your assertation that everything is luck, I find that those that trust to luck end up at the bottom of the heap. As Stephen Leacock said "I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
I am sure most here work hard, and pay their taxes. What I am talking about is workers need to support each other. You seem to think that the working poor get what they deserve, even though some of those jobs are actually harder than alot of higher paying jobs. Most people will work hard if given the chance. That is what people need is the chance.
I would like to take luck out of it. When I helped get the Wet/Dry progam in my city going the wages were very low, it attracted alot of desperate people. Too a couple this job got them off the streets and into a place to live. It was a very low paying job. They are some of the hardest workers I have ever seen. I would put them right up with the miners I worked with. Every single one of these sorter had a hard luck tale that would make you cry.
In any situation if you listen to people you will hear a few hard luck tales. For everyone who made it big you will hear of the person who helped them, or people, or of that one moment when something great happened. They walked in the right door.
You tell me that a person who comes from an abusive family situation has the same opportunity as someone who comes from a loving wealthy situation. Alot of people in prison would of made great business men, just they delt in the wrong business, the easiest business the could find. Drugs prostitution.
Look at what you have and think where did it come from? How did I get this? Think of the people who helped you on the way, the situations that you were able to take advantage of. Then think what would of happened if you did not get these. If you were born to a different family, had to quit school in grade 10. Maybe what would of happened if you spent your childhood years fighting a disease, or ended up in a wheel chair.
Where would all the great hockey players be if people before them had not created the game. Where would Bill Gates be if he was born before the computer.
The country, the time we are born, our parents and even our DNA are things we have no control over, yet all of these are what makes us. All we can do is the best we can with what we have, and try to make things better for others.
