Working Class Jobs
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Topic: Working Class Jobs
Posted By: Parnell
Subject: Working Class Jobs
Date Posted: 17-Oct-2008 at 16:45
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http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_promises_to_stop_americas - http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_promises_to_stop_americas Caution: Swearing. We must keep these jobs in America! |
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Posted By: Dolphin
Date Posted: 20-Oct-2008 at 11:51
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What the f are you advertising?
And no, I didn't bother to watch the video either. ------------- |
Posted By: Reginmund
Date Posted: 20-Oct-2008 at 11:54
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Isn't it worksafe or something? I'm at work.
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Posted By: Styrbiorn
Date Posted: 20-Oct-2008 at 12:52
 Dolphin: read up on The Onion.
Well, there's no nudity, but it's a video and I doubt your boss would like you to watch that during working hours. My efforts aren't appreciated by their Swedish teachers though. |
Posted By: Reginmund
Date Posted: 20-Oct-2008 at 15:28
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Work ethics are for the gullible.
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Posted By: JanusRook
Date Posted: 20-Oct-2008 at 17:05
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I know this is parody and all but still some people actually do have this attitude. I mean seriously it's such a liberal attitude that American's can and will always get to the top. Yes it's unfortunate that you don't get to become a star athlete or a corporate CEO or president of the United States but there are only so many of those jobs that can go around. So while we glorify these positions, we completely ignore or even worse look down on hard-working people who have committed themselves to work in more mundane jobs. All jobs need to be done, or else every one suffers. Even if you make millions a year you still need cars that you drive to be built, you still need tomatoes that go in your food picked and you still need coal that powers your house to be mined. Every single one of those people is more important in the grand scheme of things than every single CEO, politician or athlete, and it sickens me that more people don't realize this. Bravo to the onion though for bringing an important issue up in a humorous manner. ------------- Economic Communist, Political Progressive, Social Conservative. Unless otherwise noted source is wiki. |
Posted By: Parnell
Date Posted: 20-Oct-2008 at 17:22
Name me one person/group who actually thinks like this. You shouldn't assume so much from peoples attitudes. ------------- |
Posted By: Reginmund
Date Posted: 20-Oct-2008 at 17:26
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We live to compete and we measure our worth by how much we can elevate ourselves above the rest. In the end only those who finish last wish for equality.
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Posted By: JanusRook
Date Posted: 20-Oct-2008 at 17:57
Easy take away for instance all the coal miners who supply power to the power plant. Then see if the CEO, politician and athlete all function without power. That's the type of scenario I was getting at you can't get to the top without standing on the people with shit jobs. And the higher up you are the harder you fall if the people you're standing on disappear. And technically I could argue that most Christian churches have this view of thinking. Something about the meek shall inherit the earth or something like that. 
Social darwinism is so droll. ------------- Economic Communist, Political Progressive, Social Conservative. Unless otherwise noted source is wiki. |
Posted By: Reginmund
Date Posted: 20-Oct-2008 at 22:00
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I was thinking more in terms of how we relate to this psychologically, in order to explain the somewhat illogical but oh so common attitudes you described.
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Posted By: JanusRook
Date Posted: 21-Oct-2008 at 03:49
I didn't realize that altruism is an illogical attitude. ------------- Economic Communist, Political Progressive, Social Conservative. Unless otherwise noted source is wiki. |
Posted By: Reginmund
Date Posted: 21-Oct-2008 at 07:50
I have become convinced it is. ------------- |
Posted By: gcle2003
Date Posted: 21-Oct-2008 at 14:00
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Altruism is an illogical attitude. So is selfishness, so is greed.
You can construct a logical chain in which any of them is a logical conclusion, but it depends on the premises you choose. And the choice of premises is inherently not logical.
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Posted By: Reginmund
Date Posted: 21-Oct-2008 at 18:35
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Quite. That's settled then.
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Posted By: JanusRook
Date Posted: 22-Oct-2008 at 03:21
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Agreed gcle is wise indeed.
------------- Economic Communist, Political Progressive, Social Conservative. Unless otherwise noted source is wiki. |
Posted By: Balaam
Date Posted: 23-Oct-2008 at 11:04
One thing I don't like about that video is it showing the meat industry as a "shitty" job 
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Posted By: Reginmund
Date Posted: 23-Oct-2008 at 11:24
Well maybe it MEATS the requirements, Balaam. 
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Posted By: Balaam
Date Posted: 23-Oct-2008 at 11:59
Maybe it does lol. You know the scene in it where it shows the pile of pigs, well is that a common sight in US abattoirs? Like I'm not even supposed to let the pigs touch at all when putting them away in the chillers let alone in a big pile like that. Such an unclean thing to do =/ ------------- |