When I was living in my car during college I met a girl who had a full ride from her parents and she un-ironically said “why don’t you just get your parents to give you an apartment?”. She couldn’t fathom that one, I have a single parent, not parents, and two, that parent didn’t have any money either. Her parents paid for a bad-ass apartment for her, paid her college tuition, gave her a BMW, and a credit card with an unlimited budget. By contrast, I was living in my car, working all night for my money, and going to school during the day, trying my damnedest to improve my situation in life.
Edit: on one hand I kind of agree with what that other guy said. There are plenty of people who never bothered fighting through the type of situation I outlined above, never built any job skills, and never pursued a career. They go to their minimum wage job, clock in, clock out, and don’t concern themselves with anything beyond that. But on the other hand I recognize that there are tons of people whose opportunities have been limited due to their position in life, and despite fighting through adversity to build a better life, life kicked them around enough that they never succeeded in fighting their way out. That second group is what those who are more fortunate don’t want to acknowledge, since it means they need to acknowledge that they aren’t in their awesome situation purely through their own awesomeness.
Replying to your edit, even those people who don’t want more deserve to live a happy life with their basic needs met and the other dude just doesn’t seem to think so. Not all of us can be doctors and lawyers earning the big bucks. Some need to do the ‘lesser’ jobs that the rest of us enjoy. We need baristas, grocers, teachers assistants, daycare workers, garbage men (I know they can make decent money in some parts), fast food employees etc. We can’t leave some of those jobs to teens, and even for the ones we can our human growth won’t be enough to keep this house of cards going.
When I was living in my car during college I met a girl who had a full ride from her parents and she un-ironically said “why don’t you just get your parents to give you an apartment?”. She couldn’t fathom that one, I have a single parent, not parents, and two, that parent didn’t have any money either. Her parents paid for a bad-ass apartment for her, paid her college tuition, gave her a BMW, and a credit card with an unlimited budget. By contrast, I was living in my car, working all night for my money, and going to school during the day, trying my damnedest to improve my situation in life.
Edit: on one hand I kind of agree with what that other guy said. There are plenty of people who never bothered fighting through the type of situation I outlined above, never built any job skills, and never pursued a career. They go to their minimum wage job, clock in, clock out, and don’t concern themselves with anything beyond that. But on the other hand I recognize that there are tons of people whose opportunities have been limited due to their position in life, and despite fighting through adversity to build a better life, life kicked them around enough that they never succeeded in fighting their way out. That second group is what those who are more fortunate don’t want to acknowledge, since it means they need to acknowledge that they aren’t in their awesome situation purely through their own awesomeness.
Replying to your edit, even those people who don’t want more deserve to live a happy life with their basic needs met and the other dude just doesn’t seem to think so. Not all of us can be doctors and lawyers earning the big bucks. Some need to do the ‘lesser’ jobs that the rest of us enjoy. We need baristas, grocers, teachers assistants, daycare workers, garbage men (I know they can make decent money in some parts), fast food employees etc. We can’t leave some of those jobs to teens, and even for the ones we can our human growth won’t be enough to keep this house of cards going.
I agree with you.