The life of avarage person: Dreams lot of things in his/her childhood but achives little to nothing in his/her life
The playing field is not equal so it isn't reasonable to hold people to the same standard of making an impact.
Atleast they're not achieving a net negative impact which is lot more than most billionaires can say
Incredibly wrong take
And no one is helping you... all telling you to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.
Then we try to help ourselves
Mutual aid!
exactly! the one thing we're stuck with is each other. it's all we're guaranteed to have. no one can escape the effects of others anymore.
That's socialism/communism! /s
Agreed! Get your volunteer on
Remember when you were young?
You shone like the sun
Shine on, you crazy diamond
And the reason people stop shining like the sun is because they're ticking away the moments that make up the dull day. Frittering and wasting the hours in an offhand way. Kicking around on a piece of ground in their hometown. Waiting for someone or something to show them the way.
Quiet desperation is the English way...
Help yourself (to a rich person's property)
teach children the horrors of capitalism, now they understand school is the same as work except slightly better.
Totally agree, except for school being better. Fuck school, from the bottom of my heart. Now I at least have the freedom to allocate some free time for my self and work on 1 thing that I understand. Not do homework for a million unrelated classes until my teachers stops bullying me or I kick the bucket.
Summer break, winter break, free transportation, free healthcare, cheap food, school is fewer hours than work, you don't get expelled from school for bad grades...
Curious where you live, because non of those were a thing where I live.
Free transportation? You mean like your parents pay for it? Cus otherwise I'm confused.
Cheap food exists outside school too. Be it canteens or homemade food.
I'd argue that homework with parents more than kills any "free time" I had. Or rather I was the only kid that had free time, because I refused to do homework, ofc that meant getting yelled at by like every adult, but even slight freedom was worth it to me, even if it was lonely.
And especially bad grades do indeed mean expulsion. It also means what school you're allowed to go to, and in places like Germany even the level of education you're allowed to reach and thus dictating your fate at such a young age. As for me, I happened to always be in the good enough range of grades, because my parents kept forcing me. If it wasn't for their intervention, I'd have a complete fucking shit life now, just like all the kids with parents that didn't care. It's pure bullshit.
School is hell. Words can't expres how glad I am to have it behind me and I dread the day I'll have a kid and I'll have to see the system all over again.
US, school bus. Public schools and school buses are funded through a small percentage of property taxes.
Curious, wouldn't expect that from the US. Something to actually make life for people easier.
Tho idk, wouldn't really call that "free transportation". Like I guess technically it is... Idk, I'm just used to buying a year ticket for public transit for like 120 bucks and using it to get literally anywhere, so it's a little underwhelming to call it a bonus of school for me.
summer break and winter break i guess
Idk, I decided to not work on Fridays (a 20% pay reduction, but I personally feel it's worth it) and there are like 50 weeks in a year, coupled with 5 weeks of payed vacation, since I only work 4 days that's 50+5*4=70, which is over 2 months. And since I have no homework I can actually fucking enjoy my vacation and long weekends too!
It just dawned on me I'm assuming you have the same work benefits as in Europe... If you live in a country that's not blue than YIKES! I feel sorry for ya.
"Minimum mandatory" is doing some distortion here. There are countries where the vacation days can only be reduced with extra payments.
I believe a much larger share of the world will fall into the last category if you focus on "number of vacation a person can expect to have at no cost if they want it". The 30 days is kinda of a standard.
Estonia.
US is generally 2wk(10 business days)allowed. 0 mandatory. There is state to state variation.
So sad, :)
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