sorry if this winds up being a double post - there seems to be a glitch somewhere here (not to mention everywhere else)
"If they got their girlfriend pregnant, then they got a job driving a forklift (or similar), bought a house, and eventually taught their kids the right way of living."
nice to see that you are concerned, and if you are interested you might like to dig a little deeper.
is "driving a forklift" really the "right thing" or is it essentially an internal condtradiction in your argument.
think about this before reading on.
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who owns the forklift? is the company based on capitalism? does capitalism favour rat races and people stomping on others to get to the "top"? does capitalism favour yes men (and women) that are willing to sell their souls? do corporations shirk responsibility and hide behind laws designed to protect those that wish to accumulate weatlh at the expense of other beings on this planet? how much power do well funded lobbists have in supporting "employers rights"? surely govt doesn't fund, or obtain funding, from any companies that are implicated in making the world a more miserable and selfish place. (sarcasm implied) do these companies deal in wares? do they have warehouses? do they have forklifts? is a large percentage of profit, unpaid wages? is there any expliotation? can diving a forklift in anyway contribute to the gap between the wealthy and the desperate. would you be doing the right thing to be driving a forklift for an arms warehouse, monsanto, or some company that imports products from china that are implicated in deplorable non-human animal abuse?
just finished watching a south park vid called smug alert. the ending of the vid was that people couldn't see that hybrid cars didn't cause smugness this is a comical, but excellent, reflection on the state of the human arena in general. we may laugh at the ignorance of adults on south park, while failing to realise that we are looking in the mirror at ourselves.
no offence intened, but why do we persit in beating around the bush instead of getting straight to the point? (not a question)
