There is a very real idea in the heart of all the Lefties and such that "being poor doesn't mean you can't have nice things or happiness."
Which on its head is true. If you spend every moment "on the grind" you will end up breaking down entirely, and it will all be for naught. The little self spending goes a long way in burning away stress and keeping focused for when it really counts.
The problem being, like most Leftist beliefs, they don't know what reasonable exceptions are. They think that idea means "buy whatever you want when you want, and its someone else's fault that doesn't leave you with bill money." No different than when they think the only two options are "no sex until marriage" or "fuck literally every person you find kinda attractive" and suddenly end up with the consequences of that too.
I think also a lot of young people see older people with houses and cars and assets and they simply don't make a connection that it took years to acquire that stuff.
Oh, a lot of it too is that they can't correlate the right traits to get the stuff too. I remember seeing a recent study where state lotteries are seeing record participation, with the average new york household spending $10 a month on it. These people are so conditioned to everything in life being "luck" and not "skill" based that they think the only way you can even get to be middle-class is through a one in a million chance.
In most cases it takes time and money to get more of it later on. For most people they want to skip out on the former and just assume that the latter can fix all problems.
All of that is true, but God also gave us free will to be able to strive past our circumstances, and most people don't use it and default to the deterministic forces in their life. That doesn't mean any kindergartener can grow up to be an astronaut (hereditary personality traits alone eliminate 90% of them from even wanting to be one), but exercise of free will, achieving incremental and occasionally drastic improvement, is how families and civilizations improve generationally.
The major goal to flip to the next chapter is "having nice things and happiness is a human right." Then once that is exploited to being about global communism, such nonsense will be forgotten as, once again as the only possible natural reality, "only those who work shall eat."
There is a very real idea in the heart of all the Lefties and such that "being poor doesn't mean you can't have nice things or happiness."
Which on its head is true. If you spend every moment "on the grind" you will end up breaking down entirely, and it will all be for naught. The little self spending goes a long way in burning away stress and keeping focused for when it really counts.
The problem being, like most Leftist beliefs, they don't know what reasonable exceptions are. They think that idea means "buy whatever you want when you want, and its someone else's fault that doesn't leave you with bill money." No different than when they think the only two options are "no sex until marriage" or "fuck literally every person you find kinda attractive" and suddenly end up with the consequences of that too.
I think also a lot of young people see older people with houses and cars and assets and they simply don't make a connection that it took years to acquire that stuff.
Oh, a lot of it too is that they can't correlate the right traits to get the stuff too. I remember seeing a recent study where state lotteries are seeing record participation, with the average new york household spending $10 a month on it. These people are so conditioned to everything in life being "luck" and not "skill" based that they think the only way you can even get to be middle-class is through a one in a million chance.
In most cases it takes time and money to get more of it later on. For most people they want to skip out on the former and just assume that the latter can fix all problems.
All of that is true, but God also gave us free will to be able to strive past our circumstances, and most people don't use it and default to the deterministic forces in their life. That doesn't mean any kindergartener can grow up to be an astronaut (hereditary personality traits alone eliminate 90% of them from even wanting to be one), but exercise of free will, achieving incremental and occasionally drastic improvement, is how families and civilizations improve generationally.
The major goal to flip to the next chapter is "having nice things and happiness is a human right." Then once that is exploited to being about global communism, such nonsense will be forgotten as, once again as the only possible natural reality, "only those who work shall eat."