Let's talk about income inequality

[SunsetBengal]

(05-24-2015, 01:40 AM)fredtoast Wrote: You could not make close to enough to pay your bills because you burned through all your savings in just two years.

So that proves my point that there are not enough good paying jobs for people that need them.  What if that same thing had happened when you were younger and had not built up a savings?  What if that happened to someone who did not have the help that you did to return to school.  Young people without savings and a family to help them can't just decide to go to school.

I guess you probably did work hard to get back on your feet, but you were lucky and had resources that some other people don't have.  Just because you were able to do it does not mean everyone can.  Plus I'll bet there were not enough jobs for all the people that you went to school with.  Even you did not have the luxury of picking and choosing from a list of employers waitiung to hirev you because there are more jobs than there are people to fill them.

I never implied that there wasn't a degree of hunger and tenacity required, in order for people to take advantage of upward mobility, only that it is entirely possible. I also never suggested that opportunities would seek people out, people must want to better themselves, in order to do so. Contrary to the old saying, opportunity does not always knock on your door, sometimes you have to go looking for it. I did my research, checked around, asked people working in the field about the volume of opportunities in the area I was interested in studying.