Name: Anonymous 2007-10-27 9:38
I don't like when someone who was handed everything in life for free says "You gotta work for the things you want". The people who say that are usually people who got lucky and instead of correctly attributing their wealth and socio-economic status to luck, they incorrectly attribute it to some kind of skill or hard-working spirit that they believe themselves to possess. Another group of people I can't stand are people pretending to have disabilities instead of working so they get free money from the government through Social Security and Supplemental Security Income disability programs. I have nothing against people with real disabilities, so if you have a real disability do not get mad at this post. I just find it strange when an overweight man in an electric wheelchair is going on about "Survival of the fittest".
Talent has little to do with wealth and socio-economic status in Capitalism in my opinion, unless it's talent at lying, cheating, and stealing or talent at luck if that's even possible. The usual comeback to that statement is "You're just jealous because you don't have money and they're smarter and more hard-working than you". I'd be saying the same thing even if I was a billionaire. I wouldn't be a billionaire for long though, because I'd give all my money away to people who truly need it except for maybe $1,000,000 for myself.
Talent has little to do with wealth and socio-economic status in Capitalism in my opinion, unless it's talent at lying, cheating, and stealing or talent at luck if that's even possible. The usual comeback to that statement is "You're just jealous because you don't have money and they're smarter and more hard-working than you". I'd be saying the same thing even if I was a billionaire. I wouldn't be a billionaire for long though, because I'd give all my money away to people who truly need it except for maybe $1,000,000 for myself.