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[pentane]

I post this because the kid probably agrees with it:

http://matociquala.livejournal.com/1925769.html

7 days and counting.

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[pentane]

Yea, I don't want to start on how her ideas about how life should be lived are compatable with someone with... a pretty well paying job.

I think once she actually sees the money (and costs) be laid out and I relate them to actual work, she might have an epiphany.

That's my hope anyway.

[confusiontempst]

I'm constantly curious as to where this "it tastes better" bullshit comes from. I mean, I just don't get the same warm fuzzy everything tastes nicer from organics other people seem to. I guess I feel like i'm missing out on an important part of the feedback loop or something.

As someone who is currently unemployed and living on the benefit in my country, I can say that I think that providing people who can't find work (there's no work to be found) with a minimal ammount to cover rent (which I don't entirely believe in, but understand the necessity of under our present system), food (which is essential, people without food riot, or steal things), and enough money to engage in some leisure activities (video games, they're surprisingly affordable, and keep me from going loco) is probably a good step for society.
It's not like there are jobs desperately needing to be filled here.

[pentane]

Yea, we really need to come to terms with the fact that we don't need everyone to work.

[confusiontempst]

It's the most painful part of the rhetoric from the neo-con party line for me. That the unemployed are shiftless and lazy. Sure, the unemployed are shiftless, but there's often nowhere for them to work, so what else are they suppsoed to do? At elast if you provide bread and circuses then the mob stays in line, and commits less in the way of crimes of desperation.

[pentane]

You may find this interesting:

http://www.pimco.com/Pages/AllentownDecember2010.aspx