Current Events — HabitableZone

Current Events » in reply to You never answered any of my questions.

Quiet desperation
TB — (archived)

But working class is when you don't own a business, or manage an operation, when you're not self-employed, when you never went to college or owned a house, and where work is not something you choose to do because it is an opportunity, or a stopgap, or training for when you grow up, or a means of self-actualization and career development.

One out of eight people in this country live below the poverty level. That means seven out of eight do not. And the living standards of the "poverty level" in this country would make most of the world weep with envy.

27 percent of the population over twenty-five have at least a bachelor's degree or higher. Another 17 percent have at least attended college.

Two thirds of householders own their own homes.

The unemployment rate in America is five percent

Wake up. It isn't 1930 any more, no matter how much drama you inject into it. I don't ride buses much any more, but when I do, a lot of the workers on board are laughing and joking, and talking about where they're going after work. Sure as hell it isn't quiet.

I don't know where you live, or what neighborhoods you frequent, but maybe, just maybe, it doesn't represent the vast majority of this country. Then again, I'm not pretending my neighborhood does either.

Log in or register to post.

The whole thread (65 posts)