[G. Adams]

</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Waychel,)
Why is it constantly brought up that the poor are starving in debates like these? People on welfare eat better than I am right now. -_- They're far from starving.

The rich got where they were by hard work - education and dedication. These days there's no excuse for someone to be working jobs at Sears in the long-term unless they had kids early on or dropped/flunked out of highschool for their own reasons.

I just have very little sympathy because there are so many opportunities here in the US to get ahead. Other countries though are a whole other issue of course.

Still, I'd have to say it is the difference in quality of lifestyle that causes the poor to hate the rich. The middle class are owned by the rich just the same, but they do not hate them nearly as much. Someone will always be working under/for somebody else no matter how rich. What matters to people is how well that payment from their employer will sustain them.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>

There are people living beyond the borders of your country you know? Its not a giant wasteland. Its were your Nikes and your GAP jeans were made, by people who do up to 36 hour shifts. They are the ones dying of malnutrition. And don't just complain that they live outside your country, they have nothing to do with you, because those same *hard working* CEO's who most usually do live in your country are the ones paying them those shitty wages.

And in those countries its not whether those wages will sustain, any wages are better than no wages whether or not they sustain you.