South americas meltdown
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@taniwharugby said in South americas meltdown:
@nta I was discussing the generational welfare with a client on Monday, as my old neighbours were starting a legacy...
Mother and father on the benefit, teenagers (both sexes) not working, popping out sprogs (or g/f pregnant) living at home with parents not working...
Grow up seeing your parents never working, must be quite easy to slide on into that same life.
Intergenerational ferality is hard to combat , my mate employs a few Ferals and they get stuck with being “ the responsible “ one in the family and tapped for loans etc which makes them wonder if it’s worth the effort.
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@bones said in South americas meltdown:
@jegga he's doomed. I left school and pumped gas. I mean...petroleum transfer technician.
Oh well .
The careers people shouted my boy fish and chips for lunch and a brand new pair of work boots when he told them . Things have obviously changed a lot since I was at school .
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@taniwharugby you went on the dole even earlier than I did then.
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@bones yep...I thought I may as well get some of that welfare money now and I'd pay it back later in life...
As to the golf, I worked out pretty quickly I couldnt stand being out on the driving range for hours on end practicing, I much preferred actually playing golf, so worked in the pro-shop to top up my dole until I decided to get a fulltime job...
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@taniwharugby should have gone to university eh.
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@bones said in South americas meltdown:
@nta yeah going straight from school to work is a shit idea eh...
I never said that. But it didn't stop you getting the shits about the possibility of an implication, eh?
My point was that he couldn't understand that there was more than one way to skin that particular cat. His Dad was forestry, so that was good enough for him. Didn't consider further education - he wasn't much of a student - but the thought of anything else e.g. A trade, simply didn't enter his head.
It's like that for kids in certain socio economic brackets: while the option to try something different is there, rarely does it happen because they're simply not aware of how to get there, or supported by the people around them.
Last I heard he was working the mines so he obviously did alright out of it all.
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@nta said in South americas meltdown:
@bones said in South americas meltdown:
@nta yeah going straight from school to work is a shit idea eh...
Last I heard he was working the mines so he obviously did alright out of it all.
A mate of mine who managed a major subcontractor for BMA told me this story which sums a lot of them up:
Due to uneven shifts, they got paid weekly but one was a long week and the other a short week. This was a constant source of tension with workers wanting their pay averaged over a fortnight. One particular miner who would have earned well north of a million dollars over the previous decade as an effectively unskilled worker rang to say he couldn't get to work following a short week because he didn't have enough cash to fill the car with petrol.
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@jegga said in South americas meltdown:
Venezuela is almost a failed state now, who could have seen that coming?
Oil prices are on the rise but Venezuela’s crude is one of the hardest to refine and Chávez fucked the industry over years ago so even that can’t help them .The deflection on display from those who until very recently held up Venezuela as proof of a socialist utopia is something to behold. They won't admit mistakes or errors, just pretend Venezuela no longer exists.
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So how about Brazil's 'Trump'? Naturally msm are portraying him as far-right where as his opposition are just 'left wing workers party'...I mean have we ever had issues with a Socialist workers party in history?
He narrowly missed out on winning election outright and now goes in for a 2nd vote in a couple weeks time.
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