Man Uses $1m Win To Finally Visit Doctor, Gets Terminal Cancer Diagnosis, Dies

[John V]

I have mostly talked religion here w/ you. The only taste of your politics I've gotten is your "Conservatives are better looking" or "Wal-Mart pays more because of tax cuts" threads, so (in my case at least) you projected that boogey man on yourself.

Fair enough. You haven't been here long. Over the years, people have posted links to quizzes that assess your politics. Lots of people here end up far left. I end up just right of center. I have a pretty strong libertarian streak.

The problem is that a lot of hard working people are treated as replaceable, and so many conservatives like to gloss over this point. They like to paint people who make low income as "a bunch of bums" when that is a gross mischaracterization.

I'd have to disagree from my personal experience. When I've had bottom-rung jobs, most of my coworkers were pretty lazy. They generally worked just hard enough to not get fired. A number of them stole from the business if they could.

The heart of the issue is this: the person stocking shelves at your local Wal-Mart is replaceable--it doesn't matter if he's hard-working or not. But without somebody doing that job, nobody could go to Wal-Mart and buy shit. People like to tout the value of job creators, but forget the fact that job creators wouldn't be able to do jack without an army of job doers. Regardless of how expendable the market regards such people, the working class offers something valuable to society, and we couldn't live without them.

Yes, the bottom-rung people are replaceable, so it's no surprise that they're treated as such. That's why the guy stocking shelves at Wal-Mart should ask about how he should advance to the next level, then the next, until he's not so easily replaceable.

Hell, my 19 year old daughter has authority over people twice her age who have been there longer than she has. It's not luck. It's not a lottery. She works hard and has a good attitude.

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Why would anyone brag about how much they worked to make someone else rich?? We as Americans work some of the longest hours in the world.  The rest of the world gets by without working so much. Last week I worked 20 hours and saved money, now I'm not going to work for a good 3-6 months.

What is it that they say about people and their death beds?

We've been through this before. I have no issues with your lifestyle. Don't know why you judge mine. I support a wife and three children, and I like vacations and nice phones and such. That means I have to work more than you. I'm neither complaining nor bragging about it. It's just how life works. You can't have it all.