I used to think this and obviously I think every citizen should engage in productive labor...but the American Dream as sold to generations past is largely a myth at this point. What used to be "stair step" jobs to better jobs really are just truly dead-end now. Go take a look at real earnings over the past few decades and you will see that there has been a real stagnation for the rising class.

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Posted by Y.A. Tittle

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Posted on 11/18/14 at 1:27 pm to Big Scrub TX

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I used to think this and obviously I think every citizen should engage in productive labor...but the American Dream as sold to generations past is largely a myth at this point. What used to be "stair step" jobs to better jobs really are just truly dead-end now.

Show me someone who's doing ANY job exceptionally for 5 years or more and not getting other opportunities.

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Posted by SlowFlowPro

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Posted on 11/18/14 at 1:30 pm to Big Scrub TX

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but the American Dream as sold to generations past is largely a myth at this point. What used to be "stair step" jobs to better jobs really are just truly dead-end now.

that's called the progress of an advancing society, which i posted about earlier in this thread

to put it harshly: adapt or die

the rejection of education (again, across many races) is going to just further accelerate the lower classes slide to irrelevance in society (outside of their dependency on government and crime)

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Go take a look at real earnings over the past few decades and you will see that there has been a real stagnation for the rising class.

because, as i posted earlier in this thread, primary and secondary industries are becoming much more efficient

this makes simple things like education magnitudes more important, and the costs of rejecting education are worse today

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