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Kasz216 on 06 October 2011
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Mr Khan said:
badgenome said:
richardhutnik said:

Remember, the premise is, "if you aren't rich, it is your fault".  So, the ONLY reason why someone isn't rich, is because of government?

Is some fleetingly small, basically negligible percentage of the population in dire straits despite having made all the right decisions because of sheer bad luck? Sure, maybe 0.001% of people are. But unless you're actively being held down by an unjust system as Luther Cain was, then yeah, if you want to see who's to blame for your failed life, odds are pretty good that you can catch a glimspe of the bastard in a mirror.

And even if we do pretend that people don't ultimately make the decisions that govern their own lives and give a pass to every inner city child of a broken home who's mired in a culture of failure and victimhood, the overeducated Wall-nuts banging on about the student loan debts that they agreed to assume are deserving of not one bit of sympathy or any other emotion, save contempt.

 Oftentimes people bet on a sure thing, and suddenly conditions change in a way no-one could have foreseen.

I wouldn't say "no one" people have predicted everything, even the most ridiculious stuff....

even so, I don't see how that's not someones fault.

You thought something was a sure bet, you bet on it... it wasn't.

Maybe the problem just comes from a disconnect on how people are raised.  

Me, I was always taught that when something bad happens as a choice of your actions, you were wrong.  Any justification as to why you weren't wrong, is just an excuse, and the only thing to do is admit your fault and not make the same mistake twice.

 

Shit though, even among the "sure thing" goes wrong, there are people who succeed and who don't.  For example, when GM suddenly took a huge hit to their benefits and pensions... there were suddenly a lot of people who were scerwed... beause they planned on their pension. 

Then there were other people who weren't scrwed, and while they planned on their pensions, they saved a little on the side as well... and they're doing fine.

Really, seems more like people focusing too much on consumption and not enough on practicality in cases like Allentown.  30 Years working at the same job and they didn't have a "rainy day" fund?  I mean if there is one thing you should take with you in life, it's that there is no thing as a 100% sure thing.