Tempy wrote:The whole luck aspect has always discouraged me greatly, also a lack of self worth I guess. There is a lass in my lit class who wants to write for Q in the future, she's a terrible sodding writer but she genuinely beleives she can get into Q so she's much more likely to than say, I, as i'm not confident i'm all that good (even though I know i'm better than her) and would never try, also fuck Q etc. This isn't the point of the original discussion but I like Panty's tangent.
Brooks wrote:I am very glad my mettle is very rarely tested.
MattyJ wrote:Tempy wrote:The whole luck aspect has always discouraged me greatly, also a lack of self worth I guess. There is a lass in my lit class who wants to write for Q in the future, she's a terrible sodding writer but she genuinely beleives she can get into Q so she's much more likely to than say, I, as i'm not confident i'm all that good (even though I know i'm better than her) and would never try, also fuck Q etc. This isn't the point of the original discussion but I like Panty's tangent.
I get that there may be something stopping you, but why not try? If you wanted to write for Q, at least get into touch with them and submit something.
Fentonizer wrote:I just can't stand this attitude of looking down on people, usually lower class, as if they chose to be poor and living in shitty council provided accommodation and are just too lazy to get a job and "sort their lives out."
The current Tory manifesto of scroungers and strivers is disgusting.
Sadly, what has happened in Western capitalism in the last two decades is that the money has not been particularly well redistributed – the wages of the poorest have not kept pace with the increases in profits and the result has been a widening in the gap between the richest and poorest, and subsequently a massive increase in personal debt as the poorest have taken out loans to supplement their disposable income. By failing to increase wages, we have also reached a tipping point where it has become too expensive for many people to take up jobs, mainly because of the crippling cost of housing and childcare – this isn’t a crime by those who have realised that it is easier to stay on benefits, this is a natural and understandable desire not to place their families into a position of poverty.
mistercrayon wrote:Also I disllike the idea that successful people did so entirely on own merit and that everyone else is just not as hard working enough.
mistercrayon wrote:I don't like that people "own" land then pinch earths resources and sell for profit. Its the most ridiculous extension of property that someone can own and sell stuff extracted from the earth.
The most marginalised group around, where's my leg up, my positive discrimination everyone else is handed it in a plate and I have to work for it.Fentonizer wrote:I do alright, and I'm a white, heterosexual, healthy male brought up with a mother and father with a modest income near a decent school.
If I can do it, anyone can.
mk64 wrote:Just don't be so defeatist.
I've often wondered about the source of that myopia. I should really read that Corey Robin book.It's typical conservative get-on-your-bike nonsense that refuses to take a look at anything larger than the individual
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