MIT Technology Review's “Inequality”
seems to have built a house of straw on a footing of sand. It's an
airish construct with two instinct-drawn human emotions propping it
up, envy and resentment. My observation is that certain principles of
mathematics and economics are frightfully missing from this MTR
advocacy essay. There are baseless assumptions upon which in fact, a
regressive look at most recent poverty/inequality articles say to the
serious psychologist that there's an epidemic of J-type neurosis
threatening members of MIT's Advocacy Authors' Club. Missing is a
basis for the author's assumption that $16 per hour is insufficient
to support a family. At first, I thought the author might be assuming
the Federal Government's definition of “poverty level” ($12,500
per year for an individual and $24,850 for a family of four), but
then he added Santa Clara County's higher cost of living, implying
that there's a higher threshold of the poverty level in the Silicon
Valley.
Had this inequality thinker looked into
the mirror on a blustery Monday, he could have noticed the storm
clouds and the mouth wrinkles around his logic deprived lips, and
then he could have predicted a lesson from my sixth grade neighbor
about manning up for a serious game of personal responsibility on
Tuesday. The higher cost of living in Santa Clara County has no trump
card in this social philosopher's bid to convince responsibility
thinkers there's a sterling conclusion here. The lite-pursed citizens
of Santa Clara County are luckily endowed with the freedom to bag up
and bug out.
Don't presume to auto pilot the idea
that three hundred thousand citizens in Los Angeles County don't live
in two stall homes where cars used to sleep. Don't discount the
utility and the ingenuity of our modern pioneers who find a way to
have their home grown vegetables and fresh laid eggs and eat them,
too. Don't sail too far west so that you can no longer imagine which
way survival's compass bears, because one direct route is right here
just a few feet from the benchmark forged by people who cared.
If your obsession is to judge others
lest they figure you out first, judge this: It is the simple motive
of the men and women who died for you. They gave every ounce on your
behalf. Consider how you could earn each ounce. Pull off your mask of
twisted disgust for the message of responsibility and step back out
of the haunted house where your make believe rant against inequality
is threatening, because the chain saw has no blade. The revving
screech I hear is your First Amendment larceny attempt to fill a
cerebral chink where envy has volunteered to grow inside your mind.
The respectors of freedom made their
sacrifices for you. Have the decency to try to earn their gifts.
Analyze what their sacrifices must have meant to the millions of
other Americans at home who shrank at the sight of the one bicycled
Western Union messenger and who then had to open the telegram.
Shame on you hiding under that sour mow
crying “inequality”. Now, crawl out of there. Shake off your envy
and resentment. Shoulder your share of the load so your loved ones
know you're on the job...show them your love. The mask is off.
6 comments:
Excellent!
But I fear those who engage in class envy and inequality-obsession are too deaf, blind and closed minded to recognize logic and common sense. They are too busy relishing in victimization since that is easier than taking responsibility.
And besides, they have allies in a president and half the elected government who both share their worldview as well as enjoy the political power that results from wealth redistribution getting out the vote.
Lifestyle. Gotta talk about lifestyle. If you cannot re-engineer your lifestyle to fit within your income, you're not remembering what you found out in middle school. It's never too late to learn. Apparently Rotman and MIT Tech Review ought to re-do the eighth grade.
This is a good guess. I could have used stuff like this as a sharp stick in interviews with the one-eyed fool economists who were on the Jones for notoriety (and Nobel medals).
Whew! This left me hyperventilating. GVD
Exhausting me.
Occupy this...it's churning up a lot of resentment when you say it's envy. I am me. Judging me is the poison that will take you down. What you said is evil.
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