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lookout, thank you for explaing your position better to me. I respect what you've done with your life, and you know, after you have all the money you need you could still teach.
I agree and understand that people make choices. The problem I have is that, as the gap grows and grows, and the people at the top make more and more, it leaves less for the average worker, and it makes it a lot more difficult for people who might want to achieve a comfortable living in the middle class but aren't really interested in working all the time and sacrificing other aspects of their life. It used to be a great life, being middle class. You didn't have to slave away for 80 hours a week and sacrifice having a family or a life. (yes, I know you can have a family and still work 80 hours a week, but what kind of family life is that?) You could work a normal 40 hours a week, have plenty of time to spend with your family (or doing other things if you didn't want a family), you could afford really good health care, afford to put some money away in a savings account, and it was available to both blue collar and white collar workers. That has slowly disappeared, and it makes me sad and it pisses me off, the way workers are treated.
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