Quote Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger View Post
Certainly. The underclass will always envy what the creative class has built. History has shown that the higher the level of perceived economic inequality, the greater the level of social disharmony. This thread is a perfect example. People are railing against Wall Street and unnamed 'speculators' without taking any personal responsibility for their own economic conditions. It is easier to play victim than acknowledge poor choices. Wall Street is powerful in the country because the underclasses willfully hand over their money to the speculators. Everyone was perfectly happy entrusting their financial future to the street until they weren't.

None of that means that I must accept the premise that you and I are inherently equal in our ability to create value or that we should, in fact, enjoy rough economic parity. The differences in our intelligence, work ethic, upbringing and several dozen other individual factors determine our relative success.



Yes, because you changed the sentence. I chose my words very carefully.
Everything you just said is rubbish. Own failings? Why is youth unemployment so high in my country then? We had a generational believing we all needed degrees and a high standard of education and we did, for the most part, as we were told. There's no jobs for us though. As in literally none exist. Tell me why no one will give us jobs. I've worked months on end for companies for free all so I could add "job experience". There still isn't a job for me. I was encouraged to go back and do some more work for free. You know someone of my skill working at my last unpaid job at a company would have saved the company something like £5000 for that period? We're all stupid enough to do it though because we'd happily stab our brethren in the back and push them under the tracks for a chance to have a job.

You equate the broken system with jealousy. I really hope you wake up one day to having no future like the mass majority of young people I know. I hope you look out onto the world and see every door closed because the guy who got the job knew someone who worked there. That you too post applications for jobs you're too qualified for only to be told yup, you are too qualified we'd much prefer the guy who will stick with us and be happy to take our crap for the rest of his life. And finally that everything you were told since the age of 15 about how the world works and how the best way to better yourself was all one big lie. It remains it isn't what you know but who you know. A generation of our most talented young people continue to go to waste because of nepotism. This said nepotism I feel is an integral part of the broken world we live in.

You cannot perceived these things though can you? Why, because you're part of the selfish generation. Your one of the guys that left all this mess for my generation to clear up. You were happy for governments to spend, the rich to get richer and for taxes to remain low whilst everything around you slowly but surely fell apart. Then when you got the chance, your "deficit cutting programs" and "debt reduction schemes" were to be paid off by guess who? That's right, people my age. You simultaneously took advantage of big government spending, low taxes, get quick rich schemes and, even a big welfare state. Now you vote to takeaway the same things for my generation. It's like you all had one big party and ran up a huge bar tab then on your way out left the receipt for the quiet guy minding his own business at the end of the bar to pay.

You embody this nature in the tone of your above post. And for that, I ask you this. Has a single generation in modern history ever been as selfish as yours? You systematically expected certain things and fed the corporate pig and now you vote to take away the few perks it gave us in favor of more government full of rich kids and more power to the guys who shoveled most of this misery on us in the first place. You say I'm envious but you seem to grasp I just despise being in a hopeless situation whereas the guys who caused all this continue to drink champagne to my misfortune.