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Originally Posted by RANDY P
I believe the situation for being poor will only get worse- there's no stigma or penalty anymore for being poor. They are also comfortable with fortunes changing week to week.
Life's comfortable enough when you have wal-mart, easy finance, endless cheap chain restaurants, weed and video games to placate you.
It seems to be more the norm than it used to be.
Disclosure: most of my cousins on my Mom's side are exactly this way- they always ask how I get to doing what I do and when I describe
1)- focus on work
2)-education
3)-try to earn more, money isn't everything but it's close.
-they tune out. The ghetto mentality is ingrained and those three things I mentioned are strictly taboo. I straight up told 'em all they're a drain on my aunts and uncles, and they need to get their $**t together. I then told my aunts I tried- so cut them all off. My cousin's endless refusal to support themselves and grow will bankrupt my aunts eventually..
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Yep, people use to be embarrassed to have food stamps and government assistance, now it is a goal. It is very clear that people's standards have tremendously dropped.
Now people are being brainwashed that they "
deserve " X amount of money no matter what the job. Minimum wage was never meant to be anything but a starting point, from there you work your way up. I remember as a kid, Mr Fetzer, who owned Lake Shore Schwinn (family still owns it, but no longer Schwinn) when I started working, I earned $3.35 an hour. Now I was only at that rate a short time as I was motivated. I remember asking Mr Fetzer what it would take to earn more money, his answer was very simple [QUOTE]
make yourself worth more money[/QUOTE]
So I went from fixing flats, to repairing to building new bikes, when the new product lines would come out, I would educate myself so I could work on the sales floor, ect. I learned a lot from him, and not just about bikes, but business and ethics and more.
His words are just as true today as they were in the early 80s.