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I risked everything
originally posted by: Sremmos80
It is sad that we let made up money in the game of wall street dictate what we should do by if it goes up or down.
Talk about being in complete control and having people by the balls...
originally posted by: introvert
a reply to: Metallicus
I risked everything
Many, many people do the same and that risk does not pay off. Some people are not in a position to risk anything because they have other people to care for.
It is much more complicated than how you are presenting it and that is where you are wrong. Plain and simple.
originally posted by: Metallicus
originally posted by: introvert
a reply to: Metallicus
I risked everything
Many, many people do the same and that risk does not pay off. Some people are not in a position to risk anything because they have other people to care for.
It is much more complicated than how you are presenting it and that is where you are wrong. Plain and simple.
No, it isn't. If I can do it anyone can.
originally posted by: onequestion
They shouldn't be in business if they can't survive without slaves.
originally posted by: Sremmos80
a reply to: corvuscorrax
It is the damn Ayn Rand fantasy.
I got mine so screw you get yours.
originally posted by: onequestion
They shouldn't be in business if they can't survive without slaves.
The "Horatio Alger myth" is the "classic" American success story and character arc, the trajectory from "rags to riches". It comes from the novels of Horatio Alger, Jr., which were wildly popular after the Civil War in the United States.
Alger wrote over 120 books for young working-class males, a well-known early example of which is Ragged Dick, which was published in 1867. His books have been described as rags to riches stories, although often "rags to upper-middle class respectability" might be more accurate.[1] "By leading exemplary lives, struggling valiantly against poverty and adversity", Alger's protagonists gain both wealth and honor, ultimately realizing the American Dream.[2] The characters in Alger's stories sometimes improved their social position through the aid of an older, kindly, wealthy helping person.
The just-world hypothesis or just-world fallacy is the cognitive bias (or assumption) that a person's actions are inherently inclined to bring morally fair and fitting consequences to that person, to the end of all noble actions being eventually rewarded and all evil actions eventually punished. In other words, the just-world hypothesis is the tendency to attribute consequences to—or expect consequences as the result of—a universal force that restores moral balance.
originally posted by: corvuscorrax
a reply to: ketsuko
So who do we the people blame more for the predicament we're in?
The poor or the government?
Doesn't seem like anyone is doing anything about it.
originally posted by: ketsuko
originally posted by: onequestion
They shouldn't be in business if they can't survive without slaves.
Someone who applies and works there voluntarily is not a slave.
originally posted by: ketsuko
originally posted by: corvuscorrax
a reply to: ketsuko
So who do we the people blame more for the predicament we're in?
The poor or the government?
Doesn't seem like anyone is doing anything about it.
It's government and labor policy that has shaped our present economy where most manufacturing has been shipped overseas to escape labor union and regulatory measures combined with tax policy.
Business will do what it must to survive and make a profit. That is its only reason to exist. Contrary to what most left leaning people seem to think, it is not to provide you with a living.