| Mr Khan said: Larger forces are at work more often than you would assume. Take the Billy Joel song "Allentown" as an example, what of the person who, say, got married 30 years ago, got a loan and a house with kids all predicated on his steady paycheck at the steel mill, then the whole thing goes to pot and suddenly no jobs in steel exist in the USA? Oftentimes people bet on a sure thing, and suddenly conditions change in a way no-one could have foreseen. Though i'll agree with your assessment of "the other 99." There are a hell of a lot of socialist reforms that we should mandate, but relief for yuppie college kids who are too lazy to leverage their bachelor's degree into a generic middle management position (even if only as a holdover while they continue to pursue something relevant to their major) should not form the locus of social action |
I don't think anyone who has lived through globalization could fail to notice how often things seem to shift "without warning" (although there usually is plenty of warning), and I'm not saying that it's not sad if someone is counting on a pension program or whatever only to end up getting hosed (it is sad, and in more ways than one), but if you're so credulous as to believe everything you're told in spite of mountains of evidence to the contrary or you're so complacent that you don't bother to plan ahead just in case that "sure thing" doesn't pan out, then you're not exactly without fault.
