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Originally Posted by George W. Bush
This is what I was talking to Repug about: You may be "working your ass off." But you aren't working your ass off at getting better at your job, better at getting a better job, or better at knowing about better jobs. You can "work" your entire life without improving yourself even the least bit. Also we need incentives to bring more value to society.
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This is a good point, and I agree with it, but still, I think you're operating under the assumption that everyone starts out on equal ground. The system is inherently tilted in some people's favor based on race, gender, history, etc... Now, I'm not advocating socialism. Clearly I don't think that's the way to go, since I am a libertarian, but even so, the compassionate side of me has a difficult time with our system sometimes. Some people aren't educated enough to work "smart", because they aren't smart enough. It's easy for us, a bunch of middle class to upper middle class white kids, to preach this kind of stuff, but do you honestly think if you were a Mexican living in the inner city you'd have as much of a chance? This whole romanticized idea about the American dream is a lie, or at the very least it's much more unattainable now than it was 30 years ago.
It's like George Carlin said, they call it the American dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.