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Fnord
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25 Feb 2013, 8:40 pm

I've noticed a trend here ... those of us who do not see work as tyranny have actually made something of ourselves in the corporate / working environment, while those who do see work as tyranny seems to have difficulty in even getting a job, and much more difficulty keeping a job. For those of you who are physically unable to work for a living, this post is not for you.

Those who win the prize qualify to compete, show up at post time, set off at a run, keep faithfully to the course, and finish the race.

Some folks seem to want to win a prize for just sitting on their butts in the bleachers. :roll:



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25 Feb 2013, 8:48 pm

Fnord wrote:
The fact that Paul wrote these words does not make them any less true.

If you want to eat, you work.

People in this country wouldn't starve if rulers stopped dictating our life's. Half of the food produced in our country gets thrown away.



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25 Feb 2013, 9:06 pm

Fnord wrote:
I've noticed a trend here ... those of us who do not see work as tyranny have actually made something of ourselves in the corporate / working environment, while those who do see work as tyranny seems to have difficulty in even getting a job, and much more difficulty keeping a job. For those of you who are physically unable to work for a living, this post is not for you.

Those who win the prize qualify to compete, show up at post time, set off at a run, keep faithfully to the course, and finish the race.

Some folks seem to want to win a prize for just sitting on their butts in the bleachers. :roll:

Yeah, i'm a horrible person for not racing for masters. I'm a bad person for not letting capitalists sit on my back while waving a carrots in front of my face.



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25 Feb 2013, 11:47 pm

I didn't watch the video, but no, work is not tyranny.


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26 Feb 2013, 12:09 am

ruveyn wrote:
They who do not work, neither shall they eat -- Paul of Tarsus


Ah, now you're quoting Paul all of a sudden. :lol:



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26 Feb 2013, 8:07 am

Probably a quote from Genesis is more apt

Genesis 3 wrote:
And he said to the woman, “I will increase your trouble in pregnancy and your pain in giving birth. In spite of this, you will still have desire for your husband, yet you will be subject to him.”

And he said to the man, “You listened to your wife and ate the fruit which I told you not to eat. Because of what you have done, the ground will be under a curse. You will have to work hard all your life to make it produce enough food for you. It will produce weeds and thorns, and you will have to eat wild plants. You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made from soil, and you will become soil again.


Work could be regarded as divine punishment.



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26 Feb 2013, 8:11 am

Actually, the Biblical plan has been circumvented with Roundup and Roundup-resistant crops, thanks to Monsanto.

And, a lot of women get epidurals to ease the pain of pregnancy. Plus, more men are actually subject to their wives these days.



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26 Feb 2013, 10:53 am

MCalavera wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
They who do not work, neither shall they eat -- Paul of Tarsus
Ah, now you're quoting Paul all of a sudden. :lol:

Why not? Paul was a lawyer and a teacher of laws, and very effective at both.



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26 Feb 2013, 10:59 am

Meh, those who actually do an honest day's work for an honest day's pay get nowhere in life.

The ones who get ahead are the scammers and the ones who know how to play the system to their own advantage. At the low end: car dealerships, auto mechanics, realtors, and low-level managers. At the high end: people like George Soros and Mitt Romney.



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26 Feb 2013, 11:02 am

MCalavera wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
They who do not work, neither shall they eat -- Paul of Tarsus


Ah, now you're quoting Paul all of a sudden. :lol:


Even a broken fracked up self hating Jew can tell the right time twice a day.

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26 Feb 2013, 11:04 am

ArrantPariah wrote:
Meh, those who actually do an honest day's work for an honest day's pay get nowhere in life.

They get homes, food on their tables, clothes on their backs, and maybe a wife or a husband to make it all worthwhile.

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The ones who get ahead are the scammers and the ones who know how to play the system to their own advantage. At the low end: car dealerships, auto mechanics, realtors, and low-level managers. At the high end: people like George Soros and Mitt Romney.

And in the middle, we have ordinary, law-abiding citizens who present themselves well at job interviews, get hired, do what they're supposed to do when they're supposed to do it, and get along well with their co-workers.

That's why we're called the "Middle Class".



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26 Feb 2013, 11:05 am

^The "Middle Class" is facing extinction.



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26 Feb 2013, 11:08 am

So Fnord, anyone who cannot get through a job interview should starve to death? I knew you were callous and selfish, but I didn't realise to what degree.

(I am in full time education and hold down two jobs)



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26 Feb 2013, 11:09 am

ArrantPariah wrote:
^The "Middle Class" is facing extinction.


Yup. They are being squeezed like a zit.

Once the middle class is gone there will be a low temp civil war going one between the many have nots and the few haves. It will be like Athens. Everything thirty years or so a putsch by the oligarchy which is then undone by a riot of the underclasses. Social stability will surely suffer.

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26 Feb 2013, 11:10 am

MCalavera wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
They who do not work, neither shall they eat -- Paul of Tarsus


Ah, now you're quoting Paul all of a sudden. :lol:
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Also Vladimir Lenin



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26 Feb 2013, 11:35 am

Most people work to support themselves but at the same time are supporting a minority who do not do any work and only take business lunches and scheme over drinks. So in that sense tyranny is at play.