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I'm not totally unsympathetic, either. I want everyone to live well. I just think it has to be earned and not handed to you. What's the point of doing well in school if you can just go to the local fast food joint and live the rest of your life in comfort? I just know a lot of people in my town that work in my local McDonald's and aside from the high school kids and a couple of older people (at least two of which I know did drugs), the employees are dropouts and ex-cons. My cousin used to work at that same McDonald's years ago and he'd tell me how hard he worked, mopping floor and cleaning bathrooms while most of the employees did the bare minimum. One of his classmates is STILL there, a decade later. Meanwhile, my cousin makes a good living as the maintenance man of his upscale apartment complex. He went to school, learned a trade, and now he's doing better for himself because he put that effort in.