Baltimore Riots/Freddie Gray (13 Viewers)
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Admittedly though, I had to say something as I too only speak two languages 
Yup, it pretty much is all about incentives. Not many people can afford to learn languages just for the sake of it, if they don't actually intend to use it for something practical. I had to learn English because the medium of instruction in higher education here is mostly English, it's the language of business too. I also was fortunate enough to have lived in Scotland for the first 7 years of my life, so that definitely helped.
I can relate to this thought. A year or so there was a big media fuss about "lazy robert" in Denmark. He was on social help and accomodated his life to that amount of money simply because he didnt want to work. He spent his time at a local pub and made it look like he was having a good time doing so.
I landed on the conclusion that if you want to have a working sociaæ safety net you have to accept a lazy robert or two and focus on the people in need of said help. There will always be, regardless of how you rig the system, people who will take advantage of it - on both sides of the scale. What is hurting society more, the idiots on welfare who accomodate their living standards to it or the people at the very top who arent paying taxes in the country and who spend money buying political influence to stack more cheese?
I landed on the conclusion that if you want to have a working sociaæ safety net you have to accept a lazy robert or two and focus on the people in need of said help. There will always be, regardless of how you rig the system, people who will take advantage of it - on both sides of the scale. What is hurting society more, the idiots on welfare who accomodate their living standards to it or the people at the very top who arent paying taxes in the country and who spend money buying political influence to stack more cheese?
That is no way a lie, I know many people who have left europe with little to no money and come here and worked their ass off to achieve a good life! The mentality of those people was never give up and sacrifice what is needed to get to that point. Unfortunately in some communities in the USA this mentality doesn't exist. They rather play the victim and make fast money, by selling drugs or living off welfare. Why put in the hard work when someone else will pay it or you can make triple what you make working with drugs. We can have all the dialogue we want, but unless they stop living by the 10 crack commandements and refocus on family and hard work it will not change in those areas. There are cities all over the US with this epidemic, Detroit, oakland. camden, chicago. These cities have gotten progressively worse since the civil rights movement not better
Yes, I understand that many Americans have been completely brainwashed to believe that this is so. But fact is, a lot of things in life depend on sheer luck. Rags to riches stories are few and far between and even those that made it are still insanely lucky.
Look at Floyd Mayweather Jr. True rags to riches story right? Awful childhood, poor upbringing, now a billionaire boxer. Then again his father was a professional boxer too. So maybe, just maybe, Floyd was kind of lucky with his genes and maybe, just maybe he knew what he had to do to become great. It's not some random fat kid going pro. It's the highly talented son of a pro going pro.
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You fucking cunt.
You underestimate how delusional a lot of Americans are about their own country. Don't get me wrong, I love the USA. But Americans seem to equate freedom with their own country and close their eyes for the lack of it.
Look at Floyd Mayweather Jr. True rags to riches story right? Awful childhood, poor upbringing, now a billionaire boxer. Then again his father was a professional boxer too. So maybe, just maybe, Floyd was kind of lucky with his genes and maybe, just maybe he knew what he had to do to become great. It's not some random fat kid going pro. It's the highly talented son of a pro going pro.
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You fucking cunt.
I'm delusional about Denmark, too. But the least any person pretending to be intelligent can do is try to view the situation from a different perspective than exclusively your own.
The guy highlighted that the only positive thing about all this was the mother wooping her son who was out demonstrating/looting. Kind of sums up his approach to correcting behaviour. Once they're already a product of their circumstances it's crucial to start hitting them in order to make them understand.
The guy highlighted that the only positive thing about all this was the mother wooping her son who was out demonstrating/looting. Kind of sums up his approach to correcting behaviour. Once they're already a product of their circumstances it's crucial to start hitting them in order to make them understand.
you're comparing holocaust survivors to african americans ?? What in the hell man! Slavery was over 200 years ago, the civil rights movement 40-50 years ago! Every single person involved in those riots and that are struggling in these cities has nothing at all to do with slavery and has no residual effect from it and there are a minimal amount of people who are connected to the civil rights movement involved in these scenarios. This a systemic situation where the victim mentality is handed down by generations and the people almost become defeatist by nature. When does it become time to man up, take responsibility for not only you own actions, but your communities. When do communities decide, no more gangs, no more stupidity. That lady who slapped her son around, she gets it. The black men who lined up between the cops and the rioters they get it. Shit other communities like Harlem, NY got it and they changed from within the community to change the whole mindset and mentality. Now harlem is in resurgence.
Work is constructive and grows an ethic of responsibility and worth it something that a majority of the people in this area do not have
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you're statement is so ignorant it hurts! Parents need to discipline their children and if more did that in these scenarios, and more children where afraid of their parents, they wouldn't think that this rioting, looting, gang banging is an option
Work is constructive and grows an ethic of responsibility and worth it something that a majority of the people in this area do not have
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you're statement is so ignorant it hurts! Parents need to discipline their children and if more did that in these scenarios, and more children where afraid of their parents, they wouldn't think that this rioting, looting, gang banging is an option
I'm not comparing anything. I'm saying the American Dream is a lie, because more work does not equal better pay or better results. If it did, the guy who trained most would win the Olympic title. Yes, Usain Bolt trains hard. So do millions of others and they don't get the same results. For every hugely succesful software developer out there, there is someone who tried just as hard but didn't get the results. Hard work simply does not always pay off.
I'm glad that you see how work grows and ethic of responsibility. The Nazis would agree.
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See? All this hard work and you still suck at spelling.
I'm glad that you see how work grows and ethic of responsibility. The Nazis would agree.
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See? All this hard work and you still suck at spelling.
Excellent article.
Shit like this is why it's only in the best interest of everyone in society to have low inequality and a functioning social security system. It's also not primarily not about the question of who's to blame, but what can be done to improve the situation, and if you don't change anything the next generations growing up in Baltimore, Compton, Ferguson, Detroit or whatever will only get worse.
Shit like this is why it's only in the best interest of everyone in society to have low inequality and a functioning social security system. It's also not primarily not about the question of who's to blame, but what can be done to improve the situation, and if you don't change anything the next generations growing up in Baltimore, Compton, Ferguson, Detroit or whatever will only get worse.
Btw, have you ever heard of the concepts of "deliberate practice" and the "10 thousand hour rule"? If you have, what do you think about them?
While I don't necessarily agree with your bolded statement, as hard work alone is definitely not enough, but it seems to me that you're implying that genes and innate ability are what differentiate standout performers like Usain Bolt, and that's what I disagree with.
While I don't necessarily agree with your bolded statement, as hard work alone is definitely not enough, but it seems to me that you're implying that genes and innate ability are what differentiate standout performers like Usain Bolt, and that's what I disagree with.
I think that if you put 10 000 hours into something, you'll be very good at it. But not necessarily world class. If Bolt and I had the exact same training throughout our lives, he'd still beat me by a very long margin. He's simply better built than I am to be a sprinter.
American society has us believe that all you need is hard work. And the downside of that is that if you are poor, you have yourself to blame. I'm saying that's not always the case.
American society has us believe that all you need is hard work. And the downside of that is that if you are poor, you have yourself to blame. I'm saying that's not always the case.