Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-26005008-20160407215658/@comment-3547390-20160409015549

The electoral system is the way it is to confuse the general public into believing their opinion matters. The founding fathers believed there would be total anarchy and disaster if we were allowed to pick, the common man is quite uncivilized to the elite class. So, yeah, it basically is just a tradition to make us feel more free when we aren't that free at all, instead just relying on our politicians to make the right choices. As you see, it works, people get rabid when talking about politics and who they want in office.

Meh, I just am taking a break from it before making the final descent. After a rest I think I can get through it fine, I just am tired of 100 page sessions wearing me out.

I guess it is funny because we like to see others in misery, others dealing what we had to go through. We had to work to where we got, so it is hilarious when others finally smell the coffee and realize they have to work as well. To be honest, I find it depressing, it just points back to the fact that pretty much from the age of Kindergarden to retirement we are basically devoting hours to barely pay for some basic luxuries such as internet and a computer. We get little time to relax and enjoy life, simply because we wish for basic things that require us to devote most of our life towards so we are unable to use said luxuries.

It gets really silly when focusing on minimum wage, basically what you will be getting if you don't go to college. To go to college you need to pay a lot of money or take out a loan. The former is very rare, most often do the latter, then find that because the job market is so over-saturated that they can't exactly get into a high paying job to get rid of the loan, which of course is increasing in cost with interest. It is a system to tear down the poor, to keep the poor in poverty, since you need college to get anything over minimum wage but need a good deal of money to get there. By the way, minimum wage is nearly impossible to live on without some sort of support from someone else.

All this means that if you want to be able to get basic luxuries, say a simple house with all the basic amenities with a computer, there is really only one way to do this if you do not have anyone else helping you (say your family can't finance it, you have problems with your family, or they just don't want to finance it). You need to take out a loan and live in debt the rest of your life. That is how much freedom we have. We aren't talking about a massive house filled with things such as surround sound and widescreen TVs, I am talking about a 2 room house (or say a low-rent apartment) with the bare essentials to live and a computer. With the bare essentials including food, water (job won't hire a slob), gas (some have tried to go without this, they have died from hypothermia), phone (since your job will want to communicate with you and will fire you if you don't have one), car insurance/gas (or whatever sort of transport you have, know that often the job is not within walking distance), electricity, internet (how else will you get those important e-mails your job expects you to read), and rent/mortgage. This is without even going into detail about things falling into disrepair, as they often do, which results in the need to purchase a replacement immediately to continue living or doing your job. Most have to live by cutting corners, others have to debate which of those necessities they can survive a month without (maybe I won't die from hypothermia this month). Needless to say, to survive with a basic house instead of being a nomad without access of any of societies functions, you need to pay for a lot of services. Minimum wage doesn't even allow you to afford such services, yet unless you go to college you will be unable to get anything more, which to get to college requires a lot of money you don't have or a loan you probably will be totally unable to pay off with your minimum wage job. Plus with both things going, now you suddenly have to worry about matching times up so you don't get fired or flunk. In essence, the basic person in society has to deal with a lot of stress, which is extremely illogical. It makes sense that the amenities are not free, but it feels like we waste too much of our lives either just making enough or struggling from day to day. It makes one wonder what the point of living is if it is just to deal with such stress until we are deemed too useless for our jobs, collect retirement that often will be a small percentage of our paycheck which in turn means we are unable to afford what we were prior to be deemed "too old", and expected to die since we don't contribute to society anymore. Life is terrible, the only reason to do it is because it is better than being dead due to the brief periods of relaxation we can have.