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Additionally, and this is something I rarely mention, as it can be unwise to reveal too much about oneself, but I was once homeless. Like real, living out of a backpack, by hook or by crook homeless. It was mostly my doing. Not drugs, but the why and how of how I became homeless is less important than the fact that I worked my bubblegum off to not be homeless any longer. I didn't wait for a handout, I didn't rely on others to undig my hole. I did it. And I am very proud of what little I have. The thing that frustrates me the most is that I have family members who will look at that and say things like "well, if we had a universal income, you would have never been homeless". Maybe. But, even so, I would have never gained in character, or skill, or tenacity. I would not have learned what it's like to need, as opposed to just "not having". I would never have been forced to look at myself and change the necessary things that I needed to be where I am now.Similar but different. I agree that the way we were raised had something to do with it. I grew up in the woods, in an area that has been evacuated due to wildfire three times in 30 years. Needless to say, work became a friend early, as the near constant cutting of brush likely saved my mother's home on at least one of those occasions.
If you learn early that you have to earn the results you want in life, you become a hard worker and stay that way. If you learn that you can be complacent and still be kinda comfortable, you stay that way. Too many people's kids learned the latter.
I am not trying to be an example as much as I am using my experience to illustrate why these socialist programs are not a good idea, at least in my opinion. I hope that at some point, people younger than myself and some others here learn that through hard work and adversity, you build the person you are supposed to become.