I’m making good money, my obligatory expenses are less than half my salary, and I’m only working about 30-35 hours a week - plenty of time and resources to live comfortably. Still, I realize that though I may in a good spot, there are a shit ton of people that aren’t, for no legitimate reason. I also realize that I didn’t get where I’m at all on my own. None of us ever do. The fact that today’s individualists/conservatives ignore that is the biggest thing that irks me about that mindset. Yes, it takes initiative, talent, and motivation to get places, but nobody does it without the support network around them. Hell, even the support network you’re born and grow up with changes how you turn out in the long run. I’m pissed because “fuck you, I got mine” has turned into not just policy, not just acceptable social behavior, but some sort of virtue. Sociopathy is not the path to a stable, prosperous society.
— Seen on a reddit thread discussing the Occupy Wall Street movement. The original post makes reference to the fact that most of the demonstrators aren’t young pot-smoking hippies, which is how the media usually portrays them as being, but rather regular middle class people.
