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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 664118" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>I felt horror, Cedar, reading this. And when I read it a second time. The same horror. I think I read it with middle-class eyes.</p><p></p><p>Many people think that in this country working for a living in a conventional job is a fools game.</p><p></p><p>They point to the benefits available to the poor or the near poor *which I support. Medical. Educational.</p><p></p><p>They see trading one's life energy to work so hard, to be a mistake. To be so sad and stressed at work, and to buy in to the idea of a retirement 40 years distant, or to goals that glitter like fools gold, that promise happiness and contentment and do not often give either.</p><p></p><p>In my son's case which I see first hand I see only degradation and humiliation as the results of living this so-called free, live in the present lifestyle.</p><p></p><p>But there must be a group of people that think differently than do I. In my state in the past 20 years the prison population as averaged well above 150,000. Racism, mental illness and poverty accounts for a large part of it. But not all.</p><p>I believe there is. Based upon my experience working with prisoners, I cannot remember that many regretted their lifestyle. They regretted consequences. They may have regretted their crimes. From a changed moral stance, they may have renounced their old one. But lifestyle, they liked. (Although, not the addiction that accompanied it.)</p><p></p><p>They talked about: Freedom. Code of honor. Fraternity. Code of loyalty. Wildness. Out of the rat race. Not tied in. Individualism. The rewards. For many, success. No limits. Living in the here and now. Excitement. Dancing to their own drum.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 664118, member: 18958"] I felt horror, Cedar, reading this. And when I read it a second time. The same horror. I think I read it with middle-class eyes. Many people think that in this country working for a living in a conventional job is a fools game. They point to the benefits available to the poor or the near poor *which I support. Medical. Educational. They see trading one's life energy to work so hard, to be a mistake. To be so sad and stressed at work, and to buy in to the idea of a retirement 40 years distant, or to goals that glitter like fools gold, that promise happiness and contentment and do not often give either. In my son's case which I see first hand I see only degradation and humiliation as the results of living this so-called free, live in the present lifestyle. But there must be a group of people that think differently than do I. In my state in the past 20 years the prison population as averaged well above 150,000. Racism, mental illness and poverty accounts for a large part of it. But not all. I believe there is. Based upon my experience working with prisoners, I cannot remember that many regretted their lifestyle. They regretted consequences. They may have regretted their crimes. From a changed moral stance, they may have renounced their old one. But lifestyle, they liked. (Although, not the addiction that accompanied it.) They talked about: Freedom. Code of honor. Fraternity. Code of loyalty. Wildness. Out of the rat race. Not tied in. Individualism. The rewards. For many, success. No limits. Living in the here and now. Excitement. Dancing to their own drum. [/QUOTE]
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