Guys, no fighting.

And do not derail topics, please. It is not topic about gas.

As gov subsidies fade away, the education cost is raising faster than the inflation rate.

Social security has a big issue. The inverted population pyramid.

Everyone can apply for a job, but I don't call it equal opportunity. "It's all your fault that you are poor." is not a good argument. I can see a growing gap in learning progress among 3 years old kids. It's like taking a few seconds delay at 100m running game.

Those old people getting job are smart people. Stashing more cash before sh!t starts hitting the fan. I can't blame them.

You sound like fuking sweatshop owners.

I don't endorse this at all. You're just making straw-man arguments now...

So the kid in a Watts housing project with no dad and mom on drugs has the same opportunity as a kid growing up in the Hamptons?

Well, like I said... to a degree. But there are no laws, nor anyone, saying that "hey, because you CAME from Watts... you can't be a doctor". That would be wrong in my book. I'm totally against this. But, in reality, if you go back a generation or two, you'll simply find family lines that support education, earned good jobs, and pass that along to their children... and then you'll find some that have never given a crap. There are is no grand conspiracy here, nobody really cares about background and race anymore. There are just some cultures that value education/family more than others. There is nothing wrong with this. Trust me, if the evil-greedy corporations saw the "oppressed kid" from watts as having some amazing potential to generate more income for them... they would snatch these kids up in a heart beat. Remember, all they care about is profits and money right?

I use to be believe in what you guys are talking about, that some people are purposefully downtrodden, that there are some vast conspiracies, but I've realized over the last few years that there's really no such thing. Things are pretty much exactly what they seem. The real "brain-washing" is that everyone is equally good at everything, competition is evil, and that rich people are rich because they "stole" something from everyone else. Nope. This is just propaganda that appeals to the upset masses. Things are very simple actually. Nobody gains anything from people being poor. The rich would be even richer if Watts and Harlem had amazing economies. That's probably the biggest misconception of them all... that wealth is zero-sum. It's not. It's just cognitive-dissonance as people don't really want to blame themselves for not achieving their definition of "wealth".

+1. So true. Also the baby boomers are getting old.

I don't get it. Why are old people getting jobs? Is that why I see old people working in Mcdonald's?

Male cats found out how to limit their role in that offspring-thing to the fun part, so they can enjoy their lifes while the females do the tedious evolutionary work :-)

And some cats even managed to domesticate humans which they trained to provide food and a warm place :-)

No wonder that I can't find more peers at my age at work.