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Originally Posted by woob
Agreed. Love how the protesters are classified as just hippies, or unemployed bums and that because they don't have outlined objectives and demands, the whole movement it moot. If they dressed in suits and ties, then would they be worthy? If they handed out pamphlets stating each one of their objectives in point form with reasons and explanations for each one, then would they be worthy?
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Part of the belief in the American Dream comes with the idea that you deserve the place you have in society, therefore everyone else deserves their's. It's a wildly inaccurate notion, but it soothes people.
Even if capitalism was completely fair and everyone got an equal shot in a society, the people of that society would still be propped up by its stable and fair government. A advantage no impoverished nation can afford. Look at all of us scummy first world people, leeching off a functioning government. We could never make it on our own in a real world of anarchy.
Reality is you are always going to depend on other people. You are always going to have to depend on the government. This whole culture of extreme self reliance is absurd and as idealistic as any Maoist in the 60s. We need each other, we need understanding, and we need to help those who fail. Not try to use their failure as some ego boost for those that didn't.