No, you probably don't. This idea of self-entitlement is beyond an annoyance. Long gone are the leagues and leagues of immigrant blue collar workers with a work ethic and patriotism that was unparallelled during the high of it's glory. We will most likely never see that again, unfortunately. This pains me because I feel that things are going in the wrong direction. I understand that resources are as a general rule are finite in quantity. That is why our economy is turning into a service based economy, in addition to the fact that as a country we are technologically adequate to be figuratively "all over the world". However, by losing that blue collar work ethic we are teaching our children to feel entitled to everything, and even the young adult generation of today has echoes of this belief. Just because you have a job that you do fairly well does not mean that you deserve your paycheck. If someone can do your job just as well, if not better than you can, for less, you deserve to be fired unless you for some reason can justify that pay gap. If it's an untrained job that anyone can do at entry level, you do not deserve your job. It is a privlege to have a job, not a right. Just like driving, but everyone seems to take it for granted and complain about officers doing thier jobs. Stop forgetting that your rights and privledges are different things. You are entitled to five freedoms according to the first amendment. Those are speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition. Not driving, working, owning houses or cars, or money. Those are things you must work for, not things that you are entitled by law or otherwise. And if you cannot be responsible or tolerable those things will be revoked from you. Man up, America.
Love, Polly.
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