Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer in response to aptly named BigStupid’s belief that the ‘haves’ have an obligation to provide money to the ‘have-nots’ as a necessary consequence of living in a society.
And I see it exactly the opposite. Now you understand why some people think there is no fix for the current problem. My oldest son is exceptionally bright, well spoken, respectful, and on and on and on. I hear it from strangers, I’ve seen it myself his whole life long. Yesterday he came in after working a 10 hour day so filthy from his labor he looked like a coal miner. He was smiling, and he was happy about his productivity, what he’d accomplished, how he felt about himself and how he had improved the world.
He won’t be going to college in the Fall with the rest of his peers because a) he doesn’t want to incur debt b) he does not possess certain racial/socio-economic traits that would provide him with a scholarship despite his grades. In some ways the bigger loss is the society at large that will never be able to capitalize on the intelligence, drive and decency of this young man because they deliberately pass him over in order to promote someone who is less qualified.
On the flip side he has been earning his own income for several years now, maintains an investment portfolio and earns more than most college graduates. He has zero debt. That people like Big Stupid and the Government in general believes that an individual like my son has an obligation to people like the Baltimore drug dealer simply for the benefit of living in a society that actively works against his interests is patently absurd. I am lucky to have raised children that can see this for themselves and who do everything in their power to disengage from such a maladjusted and morally bankrupt system.
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