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10-25-2021, 06:36 PM #451
Pretty much. Weve been in an aristocracy for a while now
I ski 135 degree chutes switch to the road.
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10-25-2021, 06:38 PM #452
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10-25-2021, 06:50 PM #453
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10-25-2021, 06:51 PM #454
The tyranny of work: jobs have become, for so many, a relentless, unsatisfying toil. Now is the time to challenge the traditional work ethic.
https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-work-...-for-good-jobs
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10-25-2021, 06:56 PM #455
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10-25-2021, 07:05 PM #456
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10-25-2021, 07:14 PM #457
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10-26-2021, 09:09 AM #458
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10-26-2021, 09:13 AM #459Registered User
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10-26-2021, 09:20 AM #460
But but but...that's communism!
Or called social democracy over here. Though implementing it after decades of neo liberal indoctrination is not easy as well.
Edit:And I'd really enjoy a panel discussion on life's mysteries with dunfree, benny, glademaster and buttahflake.It's a war of the mind and we're armed to the teeth.
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10-26-2021, 09:26 AM #461
1988()!!!
Nothing to do, nothing to pay
Nothing but snobbery and decay
Land of the free
How can you tell?
The bigger they come the harder they sell
Here’s to you
Here’s to me
A future aristocracy
Property, poverty
An unstable economy
And decay
And decay
Snobbery and decay
Snobbery and decay
Come tomorrow, the dream might blow away
Guilt and sorrow, the price you have to pay
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10-26-2021, 09:29 AM #462
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10-26-2021, 09:54 AM #463
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10-26-2021, 10:27 AM #464Registered User
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10-26-2021, 10:38 AM #465
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10-26-2021, 11:03 AM #466
If corporations are people, why not hippos?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...ppos-colombia/
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10-26-2021, 11:07 AM #467
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10-26-2021, 11:13 AM #468
It's very difficult to become a REALLY good skier without the family financial resources to ski 50-100+ days a season for several seasons. If your folks had money to cover that you also had money to at least get in to college and finish if you didn't fuck it up.. Even if you did there were probably resources to still get a good job or take over the family business or start your own business. Not many folks here who truly grew up "poor".
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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10-26-2021, 01:18 PM #469
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10-26-2021, 01:47 PM #470
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10-26-2021, 01:47 PM #471Registered User
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Also a fair amount of people here who were gifted nothing more than an upbringing that instilled good values, ambition, work ethic and a foundation to build on in adulthood.
I know its not your intention but nothing gets my hackles up like discounting the good decision making, sacrifices, hard work and natural talent that got many of us into the position we are today. I was gifted quite a lot by my folks and upbringing, but it was mostly values, priorities and examples (which i realize is invaluable and lacking in poorer communities)... not finances, connections, material resources etc. I have trouble empathizing with many "woe is me" stories from people that don't work/hustle hard- i do feel for the folks that work their ass off and still cannot seem to stay above water.
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10-26-2021, 02:04 PM #472
It's not the same thing to have found that fortune in your 30s. If you truly earned it through hard work you didn't have time to ski 100 day seasons in your teens or early 20s. But, ya, nothing wrong with folks like my wife who left home at age 18 with NOTHING and found a way to get college grants and worked three part time jobs taking 7 years to complete a 4 year degree 100% on her own. That's why she's NOT a fantastic skier though... To be that you really need a lot of free time and a good financial situation in your teens and early 20s.. Ya, you can get out a few weeks a year and get "pretty good" with a great situation later in life, but at your best, you wouldn't have beaten me down a bump run when I was 20..
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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10-26-2021, 02:11 PM #473
It's hard to explain born on second base to a lot of people.
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10-26-2021, 02:19 PM #474
Good one. I'll use that.
A few people feel the rain. Most people just get wet.
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10-26-2021, 02:22 PM #475Registered User
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