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RE: Higher Education in the USA - Ripoff or Merely a Lost Cause?
Hah! Thanks for that. If Steemit had a "comment of the day" feature, I'd nominate you. Thank you. I feel much better now.
The only thing missing was a reference to chemtrails, but let's not overdo a good thing.
As a small shopkeeper, I occasionally get a front row seat to the "quality" of today's recently minted citizenry... and the experience inevitably involves head shaking. Especially when one of them comes in to inquire about a job.
True story: One 20-something came in to ask about a job; having none to offer I nonetheless took a moment to make some suggestions of places I knew had open positions. The response? "Yeah... but I am really looking for something where I don't have to DO very much..."
Oh man that makes you loses a little hope for our future of survival. Sounds like bums down here on so many street corners. Sometimes people offer them jobs and they turn them down for similar reason “would have to do work,” or it ties them into having to be a reasonable citizen like paying owed taxes and bills. Where they see themselves making less money they are now.
There are even bum community’s down here where 5 to 8 of them get together and trespass on vacant lots owned by people in other states that never come down to check on their land. They will set up camps, fires, couches peoples toss out. Usually the land they do this on had fences put up to “protect heavy wooded area” since the landowner is nowhere around. So they use that as a way to hide what they are doing from view.
We used to have a couple of fairly high profile "buskers" downtown... being a merchant, I had conversations with both of them at various points and they both admitted that a "good day" during tourist season could bring them $80-120... cash, tax free, off the books. Compared to working somewhere for minimum wage, less withholding. They'd sleep outside or at the American Legion hall when it was raining...
In ONE of their defense, he was saving up to buy a used RV so he could have a place to live and travel. But that's an exception, not the norm.