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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (216689)	2/11/2013 1:56:58 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) of 541777

There is nothing like a concrete wall or other aspect of reality to test various beliefs <I especially liked the scene where the nihilists were wailing "It's not fair"> People don't have to believe they are not worth anything and are just a burden. < we don't all have to rise to the top but if you're living in an economy that no longer needs your skill set and you are a member of a society that sees you as a burden, that's a far different thing. > The economies do need the skill sets, it's just that unemployment payments and minimum wages were invented and those are an insult to people - saying "You are no better than a pet dog. You mean so little to us that we will give you free board and lodgings and we will boss you around like a pet dog as long as you wag your tail properly for us and sit when we tell you to sit." It makes the dog trainers feel important. The dog trainers should be fired and join the rest of the unemployed in finding their true value. Both the trainer and dog will find that there are useful things they can do. The unemployed are fooling themselves by voting for such a way of life. Rather than begging from dog trainers, they would be better off working for somebody who earned their money honestly.it At the Auckland Sheltered Workshops [for physically and mentally disabled] there were people who were far below the minimum wage in value, but they still had useful things to do, though a few could not do anything except sit in their wheelchair and sort of moan. It was a fun place to work - normal performance standards did not apply. People just did what they could do. They didn't just sit home watching tv, moping on the dole, probably feeling lonely and pointless. Mqurice

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