You're one of those quaint little folks who believes the amount of wealth in the world is a fixed amount and that whoever has it has to protect what they've got or someone else will steal it right?
After having gone thru such a cycle more than once I would have started my own business by now, any kind of business so as not to be in that position ever again.
So because we've done something for thousands and thousands of years we have to stay that way? So why bother with medicine or building codes? People have been dying and building shanty towns for thousands of years. TV is an ADVANCEMENT over sitting around the camp fire and waiting for the latest boring ass "oral history". If TV wasn't better than those older forms of entertainment wouldn't have died out.
Once you've seen all four seasons once, you've seen em all. Birds are the same year in year out. Neighbors are people and people are the same kids or no kids. Once you've seen a neighbor move in/out once you've seen it all. Once you've seen a unkept/kept yard you've seen em all. Real people and situations are sometimes interesting, but on television you have paid professionals dedicated to entertaining you. Either they do so or they get fired due to low ratings.
Unless you have enough clout in your own neighborhood to get everyone to break out into a jig when you clap your hands together and shout "DANCE!" then I'm afraid reality can't compare.
I find interacting with family members mind numbing and television stimulating. If all you have is network TV thats fine, but cable TV has all sorts of interesting channels and shows to watch. Really only malcontents can't find satisfaction in television. Its always the new agey folks who want to change the world and the way the world lives. Its like the homeschooling phenomenon. I don't argue that it gets better grades but man is something lost in the process. Grades aren't everything.
If you are walking down your own street you've already seen it a thousand times before. Why do you need to look at every house on your street again and again and again? How is that NOT mind numbing in opposition to television?
I spent four years at a boarding high school. There were TV's only in the common areas meaning most of the time one could not watch what you wanted to watch.
It was hell.
Fortunately it was a co-ed campus and there were a lot of classes to keep us busy.
What if you don't LIKE your family? How many teens want to sit down with their family after dinner instead of hanging out with their friends? What if your marriage isn't brilliantly stimulating? I'll garuntee you if you keep talking to your wife a lot you'll be divorced it will lead to divorce. TV has probably saved more marriages than anything else. If one person can't take the lack of attention it just proves they were incompatible. Couch patatoes should marry other couch potatoes and busy bodies should marry other busy bodies. BTW most commercial segments are a lot longer than 2.5 minutes, sometimes its as long as 5 minutes. Crossword puzzles are boring. Walking without a destination is boring. Radio talk shows are mostly boring. I hire painters I don't do that myself. Ok so you want someone to re-wicker a chair instead of watching a TV program? What have we regressed 100 years or something? When I am on my deathbed, I want my TV ON and my remote in my hands!
Thats it? Just read? How is reading for hours any different from watching TV for hours? Depending on how descriptive the author is you may actually have less to conceptualize or imagine than a TV show would require. And how does a family read TOGETHER? Do you all peer over the same book?
As for talking, you can talk during TV you know. Thats what the commercials are for. As for talking about life and your day....well aren't your lives and days pretty much the same everyday? Doesn't it get boring discussing the same thing?
Wow honestly thats the best criticism to the war on drugs I've heard in a long time. Usually the criticism comes from the druggies themselves who just want to make it legal to get high.
Why has it become popular to complain about anti-drug efforts? Is there a large contingent of people in this country who resent that the government doesn't make it easy for them and others to become loser druggies dragging down the rest of society?
People change. You dont think any one of those pricks is capable of thinking on the level that you are? Or any of the geeks you currently work with isn't capable of hitting the gym and becoming a jock?
Considering the fact that there are several lawyers and doctors playing in the NFL who still benefit from the excellent physique one gets from playing and the fame and fortune as well I'd rather be the football player.
So you are a nomad as opposed to them being tribalists and this makes you better somehow?
You are no better than them, nor they you. There's just a lot of diversity in the way humans live their lives. If everyone did what you do then there would be no communities and that would really suck.
I grew up poor. Really really dirt poor. Public housing and food stamps poor. Not the politically convienent "working class poor" that people with mortgages and cars bitch and moan about everytime election time draws near. I learned very early on that in life no one or no thing owes you jack squat. If you want something in this world the best way to get it is to work for it yourself.
Were you under some illusion that a certain class did NOT own most of the things in this country? Its always been that way and most likely always will be. Some people are more talented, luckier, harder working, better looking...etc then others and benefit from it. Thats just life. But to say some company that already compensates you for your labor still owes you something extra is ridiculous. I also never said anything about repealing any of the current labor laws. They're fine as is.
If you are working for say $15 an hour why does the company owe you anything more? Do you not understand that there's probably a dozen people willing to take your job? Such a person is in no position to make demands on management. Market forces are irresistible and undeniable. Even if whole nations seek to opt out of the globalized sytem they will simply decay in relation to the rest of the world.
"Better one's life" can mean many things but it doesn't always mean MAKE MORE MONEY or GET ANY SPECIFIC JOB.
You can pursue many careers with even just a high school diploma. You can go to university or college to make yourself into a more well educated person. But that doesn't change the fact that at the end of the day you need to demonstrate and prove your usefulness to your future employers and make sure no one else is more capable of your job than you are.
Why isn't it just as sucky that someone without a degree can't get a job? Don't we all deserve jobs? See this is where the entitlement comes in. You think just because you "put in your time" you deserve something others don't get.
The reason why the government ignores IT workers is because IT workers ignore the government. Remember IT workers are too smart, brilliant and intelligent to unionize. Only lesser beings need the protection of teamsters. Lordly computer nerds, I mean IT professionals will always be able to adapt.
You could have 10 degrees in the most hardest subjects and it still doesn't mean that you are owed anything in life.
If you think the path to success is Pre-school -> Grammar School -> Middle School -> High School -> College -> Lucrative Job then you are an idiot! Also why did you study harder than your friends? They've got the same thing you do, a degree. How many employers do you think take a look at your individual GPAs?
"I put my time in, now I want my fucking job" WAAAAA WAAA WAAAAAAAAAAAAA. You poor baby. You poor poor baby.
You are in the real world now bitch! If you don't know, you better ask somebody!
It really doesn't matter what we consider to be dysfunctional or not. Simply pondering such nonsense is a luxury. In life those who work the hardest achieve more than those who slack off. Even if that slacking off is just time spent with family and friends. While you are relaxing at home your co-worker is pumping out more widgets and proving himself more valuable to the company.
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You're one of those quaint little folks who believes the amount of wealth in the world is a fixed amount and that whoever has it has to protect what they've got or someone else will steal it right?
What are you useless fucks going to complain about when hybrid SUV's hit 50mpg?
After having gone thru such a cycle more than once I would have started my own business by now, any kind of business so as not to be in that position ever again.
So because we've done something for thousands and thousands of years we have to stay that way? So why bother with medicine or building codes? People have been dying and building shanty towns for thousands of years. TV is an ADVANCEMENT over sitting around the camp fire and waiting for the latest boring ass "oral history". If TV wasn't better than those older forms of entertainment wouldn't have died out.
Once you've seen all four seasons once, you've seen em all. Birds are the same year in year out. Neighbors are people and people are the same kids or no kids. Once you've seen a neighbor move in/out once you've seen it all. Once you've seen a unkept/kept yard you've seen em all. Real people and situations are sometimes interesting, but on television you have paid professionals dedicated to entertaining you. Either they do so or they get fired due to low ratings.
Unless you have enough clout in your own neighborhood to get everyone to break out into a jig when you clap your hands together and shout "DANCE!" then I'm afraid reality can't compare.
I find interacting with family members mind numbing and television stimulating. If all you have is network TV thats fine, but cable TV has all sorts of interesting channels and shows to watch. Really only malcontents can't find satisfaction in television. Its always the new agey folks who want to change the world and the way the world lives. Its like the homeschooling phenomenon. I don't argue that it gets better grades but man is something lost in the process. Grades aren't everything.
If you are walking down your own street you've already seen it a thousand times before. Why do you need to look at every house on your street again and again and again? How is that NOT mind numbing in opposition to television?
I spent four years at a boarding high school. There were TV's only in the common areas meaning most of the time one could not watch what you wanted to watch.
It was hell.
Fortunately it was a co-ed campus and there were a lot of classes to keep us busy.
What if you don't LIKE your family? How many teens want to sit down with their family after dinner instead of hanging out with their friends? What if your marriage isn't brilliantly stimulating? I'll garuntee you if you keep talking to your wife a lot you'll be divorced it will lead to divorce. TV has probably saved more marriages than anything else. If one person can't take the lack of attention it just proves they were incompatible. Couch patatoes should marry other couch potatoes and busy bodies should marry other busy bodies. BTW most commercial segments are a lot longer than 2.5 minutes, sometimes its as long as 5 minutes. Crossword puzzles are boring. Walking without a destination is boring. Radio talk shows are mostly boring. I hire painters I don't do that myself. Ok so you want someone to re-wicker a chair instead of watching a TV program? What have we regressed 100 years or something? When I am on my deathbed, I want my TV ON and my remote in my hands!
Thats it? Just read? How is reading for hours any different from watching TV for hours? Depending on how descriptive the author is you may actually have less to conceptualize or imagine than a TV show would require. And how does a family read TOGETHER? Do you all peer over the same book?
As for talking, you can talk during TV you know. Thats what the commercials are for. As for talking about life and your day....well aren't your lives and days pretty much the same everyday? Doesn't it get boring discussing the same thing?
So what exactly does your family do in the hours between dinner and night time at home?
Yes but would you want to socialize EVERY NIGHT?
So WTF do you do all day?
And why would we want kids to reduce or give up TV altogether in the first place?
Wow honestly thats the best criticism to the war on drugs I've heard in a long time. Usually the criticism comes from the druggies themselves who just want to make it legal to get high.
Why has it become popular to complain about anti-drug efforts? Is there a large contingent of people in this country who resent that the government doesn't make it easy for them and others to become loser druggies dragging down the rest of society?
People change. You dont think any one of those pricks is capable of thinking on the level that you are? Or any of the geeks you currently work with isn't capable of hitting the gym and becoming a jock?
Considering the fact that there are several lawyers and doctors playing in the NFL who still benefit from the excellent physique one gets from playing and the fame and fortune as well I'd rather be the football player.
They get laid more and have more fun.
So you are a nomad as opposed to them being tribalists and this makes you better somehow?
You are no better than them, nor they you. There's just a lot of diversity in the way humans live their lives. If everyone did what you do then there would be no communities and that would really suck.
Me thinks I have more to fear from Robots then workers in other countries.
You see, I am a real estate agent.
I grew up poor. Really really dirt poor. Public housing and food stamps poor. Not the politically convienent "working class poor" that people with mortgages and cars bitch and moan about everytime election time draws near. I learned very early on that in life no one or no thing owes you jack squat. If you want something in this world the best way to get it is to work for it yourself.
Were you under some illusion that a certain class did NOT own most of the things in this country? Its always been that way and most likely always will be. Some people are more talented, luckier, harder working, better looking...etc then others and benefit from it. Thats just life. But to say some company that already compensates you for your labor still owes you something extra is ridiculous. I also never said anything about repealing any of the current labor laws. They're fine as is.
If you are working for say $15 an hour why does the company owe you anything more? Do you not understand that there's probably a dozen people willing to take your job? Such a person is in no position to make demands on management. Market forces are irresistible and undeniable. Even if whole nations seek to opt out of the globalized sytem they will simply decay in relation to the rest of the world.
"Better one's life" can mean many things but it doesn't always mean MAKE MORE MONEY or GET ANY SPECIFIC JOB.
You can pursue many careers with even just a high school diploma. You can go to university or college to make yourself into a more well educated person. But that doesn't change the fact that at the end of the day you need to demonstrate and prove your usefulness to your future employers and make sure no one else is more capable of your job than you are.
Why isn't it just as sucky that someone without a degree can't get a job? Don't we all deserve jobs? See this is where the entitlement comes in. You think just because you "put in your time" you deserve something others don't get.
I'm 24, make 6 figures and disagree with you.
All a company owes you is your paycheck. Anything more and you are trying to apply socialist mores to a capitalist system.
Knock it off.
The reason why the government ignores IT workers is because IT workers ignore the government. Remember IT workers are too smart, brilliant and intelligent to unionize. Only lesser beings need the protection of teamsters. Lordly computer nerds, I mean IT professionals will always be able to adapt.
You could have 10 degrees in the most hardest subjects and it still doesn't mean that you are owed anything in life.
If you think the path to success is Pre-school -> Grammar School -> Middle School -> High School -> College -> Lucrative Job then you are an idiot! Also why did you study harder than your friends? They've got the same thing you do, a degree. How many employers do you think take a look at your individual GPAs?
"I put my time in, now I want my fucking job" WAAAAA WAAA WAAAAAAAAAAAAA. You poor baby. You poor poor baby.
You are in the real world now bitch! If you don't know, you better ask somebody!
Sucka.
It really doesn't matter what we consider to be dysfunctional or not. Simply pondering such nonsense is a luxury. In life those who work the hardest achieve more than those who slack off. Even if that slacking off is just time spent with family and friends. While you are relaxing at home your co-worker is pumping out more widgets and proving himself more valuable to the company.