12-06-2011, 10:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-06-2011, 10:25 PM by FireIceTalon.)
You can disagree all you want. But You ARE wrong, clearly in denial, and the history of our material conditions show this is self-evident. It's the same thing as the people who swear the Holocaust never happened, despite all the evidence to the contrary. There is NOT equal opportunity anywhere, I don't even see how this can be debated. Nor does hard work really mean much to be honest, it can help but it certainly isn't cracked up to what we make it to be. Lissa is right, it is all about being born from the "right" parents, who you know, being in the right place at the right time, knowing the right people, and a little bit of sheer dumb luck here and there. Statistics are not even needed here to prove it either, this is all just common sense. If we truly had equal opportunity, poverty would be nearly non-existent. Not to mention the class system would be far less pronounced. If hard work was a measuring stick of how far we go in life or how successful we become, my mom would be a billionaire easily, as would almost every starving woman or child in Africa, and all the speculators on Wall Street wouldn't be shit.
Capitalism is one big casino that chooses winners and losers at the roll of dice or flip of a coin, and for every winner there is 10's of millions of losers. It has very little, almost nothing, to do with merit or talent. The American Dream is a sham. Sure, you have someone once in a while that rises up and makes it through the various barriers, but this is the great exception, and not the rule.
Capitalism is one big casino that chooses winners and losers at the roll of dice or flip of a coin, and for every winner there is 10's of millions of losers. It has very little, almost nothing, to do with merit or talent. The American Dream is a sham. Sure, you have someone once in a while that rises up and makes it through the various barriers, but this is the great exception, and not the rule.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)