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Life should be easy like it is on tv.
Life should be easy like it is on tv."
Wanting businesses and institutions to be more fair doesn't mean you want a handout. If you are born into a family with money your life is easier. You can't claim to have won the race if you were born on the finish line.
...back in XVIII century one of the not so founding, but fathers wrote three basic rules why humans organize and elect governing bodies:
- protection from external enemies
- protection of the feeble
- upbringing of the youth to propagate said society
nothing else, if government neglects one of its obligations country/nation state/ society cease to exist and will be either dissolved or transformed. Particular organization of the state is irrelevant - slavery, feudalism, capitalism, national socialism or anything else is governed by those three principles, regardless of you accepting denying or being ignorant about it existence.
Should I be able to live from the job I have? No, get a second one. Should I be save from getting shot? No, the arms factories need your money. Should I help the poor and oppressed to get their right? No, that's communism.
Most of you aren't rich. Most of you work in shitty jobs. Most of you can lose everything when you lose your job or become seriously ill. And you think that's the way it should be.
if I can't use my old Noki e73, because provider refuse to provide service to the device, if iPhones more than two generation old being deliberately throttled, if Microsoft cese supporting windows 7 machines, if clothing lasts few washer cycles, if shoes don't last more than couple of months we don't have a choice but to succumb to the demands of monopolies and TNCs. Rest of your examples is peer pressure and vanity which also contributed to you being accepted or refused by your peers, so yes people are forced to conform to norms and morals of their environment or ousted, segregated declared commi, leftist, liberal, freak pick your own...