No. You know what's actually wrong with society today? Attitudes like this. I worked hard for everything I have, yes. But I want everyone else to have what I have too, and to have the chances I had. Is it so wrong for people to ask that life not be so goddamn hard all the time?
This Ancient Spartan philosophy of "you have to work until your hands bleed and sacrifice your physical and mental health to get nice things" is, first of all, total bullshit — people shouldn't have to struggle and sacrifice so much just to live their lives — but I digress. This philosophy might work in some pie-in-the-sky magic fairytale society where everyone has the same advantages and opportunities, but guess what? That mythical egalitarian utopia? It doesn't exist! Not everyone can live a safe, comfortable, fulfilling life through “hard work and sacrifice”, and thinking everybody can obtain a house and a car and a job that pays well enough to afford these things if they simply do more/harder work is, like many branches of theoretical physics, something that only works on paper.
Many people seem to think that “work” is this magical number like the high score in an old Super Mario game, and the more work you do makes the number keep going up until you can eventually get whatever you want. This is simply not true, and the notion of less-fortunate people being "lazy" is a poisonous, classist lie fed to us by selfish capitalist elites and repeated by people who've either a) had everything handed to them their whole lives, or b) have never once thought about the adversities other people face. To say nothing of disabled folks, who apparently have no place in this fuckhead's worldview, which is another disgusting and ugly side to the conceit he's putting forth here.
And as a side note, I'd love to meet all the legions of people these shit lickers keep mentioning who are allegedly out there demanding no work and free cars, because I've never met them, and frankly don't think they exist. They're mostly made up by people like this to justify not caring about the needs of others. It isn't a crime for people to want healthcare, or transportation, or housing, to be accessible to them when it very often isn't. And the only entitlement on display in this comment, is the writer feeling entitled to sit and enjoy the fruits of his labours while casting aspersions on everyone less privileged than him, and never spare them a second thought.
Friend, if you've read this far into my obscenely lengthy post, all I ask of you is that you be kind to one another, think about those whose needs and situations are different from your own, and don't write them off as "lazy" or "entitled". Something you take for granted may have never even been a part of someone else's life, or may not even be attainable for them. I encourage you to think of Charlie Chaplin's words in his 1940 film, The Great Dictator:
“We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. … And this world has room for everyone, and the good Earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful.
You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate — the unloved and the unnatural!
Let us fight for a new world — a decent world that will give men a chance to work — that will give youth a future and old age a security. …Let us all unite!”
