Red herring, don’t change the topic, were talking about USA.
Fine, we’ll stick with the USA, although the same concept applies all over the West, although not all Western countries are equal in what they’ve done.
So all of our great inventors, thinkers, innovators, and industrialists, who made things that you gladly use and institutions that provide you education, well-being, and protection, and then some, were all slave drivers.
Can you explain this?
Were Henry Ford, William Shockley, Walt Disney, and so on, slave drivers? @tlgains
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I mean…I’m working at a job of my choosing right now getting paid money that I can spend however I please, so…
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Who’s supplying the job though and your paycheck?
What does that have to do with it? I could get a different job tomorrow and say the same thing. Either way, it’s my choice. If I want to start my own business, I can do that too. If I want to find a job that pays under the table (lots of farming, labor types of places to do this) and keep all my money to myself, I can do this. If I want to save up for a while and then not work for a month, I can do this.
The point is, a slave has no option. No choices, no autonomy, no freedom. Their entire existence is led by the whims of their owner.
There are things to be fixed in today’s society but to equate the average American’s position in life to that of a slave is insulting to what slaves did (and still do) go through.
Yeah, I wonder if slaves get to be paid for playing hooky with sick-day benefits, have vacation time, flexible-spending accounts, and 401k’s.
Very true.
But if between your ears you believe that you are enslaved, you are.
Your belief can enslave you. But if you believe there is hope, you will find it.
We talk about white privilege, and it has existed. But the Asians don’t buy into it. Today we see the results of yellow privilege. They thrive in the USA.
don’t worry guys, @tlgains is just trolling again.
That or a new level of ignorant, but I’m choosing to believe he’s being intentionally ignorant - not unwittingly.
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First off, you are trolling again.
You don’t know what a ghetto is, it isn’t your word so I wouldn’t expect you to know. You have no knowledge of the history of ghettos and you never lived in one.
You are also trolling.
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Using his reasoning, there is no other option besides slavery. Every form of government brings some form of slavery.
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Right.
I have over a decade of working in towns that people refer to as ghettoes (and I didn’t hunker down in my office on lunch breaks and not walk or shop around the town) and my father owned two stores in one (on Jamaica Avenue, the avenue referred to in Run DMC’s “The Avenue”), adding to my time spent in them when I was a teenager.
I have worked in Jamaica, the Bronx, and Bushwick (plenty of info online about these places, or one can just tune into some rap songs about them.) At 14 years old, in the 90s I used to walk considerable distances on that Avenue, sometimes alone, and now that I think of it, was unwise.
I believe much is lost on people who have not spent time or lived in such places. And I don’t mean time here and there driving through or making a short stop in one.
Businesses may leave ghettos but they were already ghettos at that point. A business that is successful doesn’t just shut down.
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That’s cute, you must think you’re right all the time.
I’ve got an infuriatingly good track record of this (so I’ve been told).
The cure to communal/cultural/individual failure is personal accountability. I’d recommend reading “Extreme Accountability” or watching some of Jocko Willink’s YT stuff.
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I never denied a culture problem dude.
Never said you did. I only called you on outsourcing the blame on everyone else.
I’m not outsourcing the blame, I’m just not allowing you say it’s JUST a culture problem.
That’s false and racist.
As someone who understands what real culture is, it’s more a case of anticulture.
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Ever hear the phrase “be the change you want to see”?
Culture has no color. Insinuating that I’m racist because I blame culture is misplaced and not appreciated.
“We do not have knowledge of a thing until we have grasped its why, that is to say, its cause."
-Aristotle