Xpel installed, tweaked the look - F-Type R Coupe
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01-06-2018, 09:38 PM
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01-07-2018, 01:26 AM
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Not singling anyone out here, and don't mean to offend. It's just comments like the above get my attention.
I make my living providing low income housing. There are some generally wonderful, hard working people in my buildings that get up at 5:00 a.m., six days a week, to work for wages most of us would find ridiculous. Even with working 70 hour work weeks and living modestly, their discretionary income each month is just a few hundred $$.
If those of us who are more fortunate than the folks I am describing (through perhaps privilege of birth, luck, talent, intelligence or an even greater work ethic) could just keep some perspective, we might not have over 50% of millennials in the USA in favor of socialism.
The animosity towards the top 1, 5, and 10% is growing. Maybe one part of the solution would involve those in the upper echelons rediscovering the value of reinvesting in their fellow citizens. Perhaps something substantial like a college endowment, or smaller, like a bonus for an employee or an oversize tip for a hospitality worker serving us on a holiday, or an anonymous gift to a neighbor, etc. The possibilities are endless, and the impact on society can be equally impressive.
Not in anyway suggesting there is anything wrong with enjoying the fruits of one's labor, and I'm obviously a car fanatic and am not against enjoying a hobby. Just think like many things in life, a little balance and perspective can make all things better.
Walking away from my soap box now...
I make my living providing low income housing. There are some generally wonderful, hard working people in my buildings that get up at 5:00 a.m., six days a week, to work for wages most of us would find ridiculous. Even with working 70 hour work weeks and living modestly, their discretionary income each month is just a few hundred $$.
If those of us who are more fortunate than the folks I am describing (through perhaps privilege of birth, luck, talent, intelligence or an even greater work ethic) could just keep some perspective, we might not have over 50% of millennials in the USA in favor of socialism.
The animosity towards the top 1, 5, and 10% is growing. Maybe one part of the solution would involve those in the upper echelons rediscovering the value of reinvesting in their fellow citizens. Perhaps something substantial like a college endowment, or smaller, like a bonus for an employee or an oversize tip for a hospitality worker serving us on a holiday, or an anonymous gift to a neighbor, etc. The possibilities are endless, and the impact on society can be equally impressive.
Not in anyway suggesting there is anything wrong with enjoying the fruits of one's labor, and I'm obviously a car fanatic and am not against enjoying a hobby. Just think like many things in life, a little balance and perspective can make all things better.
Walking away from my soap box now...
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01-07-2018, 05:47 AM
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#64
01-07-2018, 07:25 AM
Not singling anyone out here, and don't mean to offend. It's just comments like the above get my attention.
I make my living providing low income housing. There are some generally wonderful, hard working people in my buildings that get up at 5:00 a.m., six days a week, to work for wages most of us would find ridiculous. Even with working 70 hour work weeks and living modestly, their discretionary income each month is just a few hundred $$.
If those of us who are more fortunate than the folks I am describing (through perhaps privilege of birth, luck, talent, intelligence or an even greater work ethic) could just keep some perspective, we might not have over 50% of millennials in the USA in favor of socialism.
The animosity towards the top 1, 5, and 10% is growing. Maybe one part of the solution would involve those in the upper echelons rediscovering the value of reinvesting in their fellow citizens. Perhaps something substantial like a college endowment, or smaller, like a bonus for an employee or an oversize tip for a hospitality worker serving us on a holiday, or an anonymous gift to a neighbor, etc. The possibilities are endless, and the impact on society can be equally impressive.
Not in anyway suggesting there is anything wrong with enjoying the fruits of one's labor, and I'm obviously a car fanatic and am not against enjoying a hobby. Just think like many things in life, a little balance and perspective can make all things better.
Walking away from my soap box now...
I make my living providing low income housing. There are some generally wonderful, hard working people in my buildings that get up at 5:00 a.m., six days a week, to work for wages most of us would find ridiculous. Even with working 70 hour work weeks and living modestly, their discretionary income each month is just a few hundred $$.
If those of us who are more fortunate than the folks I am describing (through perhaps privilege of birth, luck, talent, intelligence or an even greater work ethic) could just keep some perspective, we might not have over 50% of millennials in the USA in favor of socialism.
The animosity towards the top 1, 5, and 10% is growing. Maybe one part of the solution would involve those in the upper echelons rediscovering the value of reinvesting in their fellow citizens. Perhaps something substantial like a college endowment, or smaller, like a bonus for an employee or an oversize tip for a hospitality worker serving us on a holiday, or an anonymous gift to a neighbor, etc. The possibilities are endless, and the impact on society can be equally impressive.
Not in anyway suggesting there is anything wrong with enjoying the fruits of one's labor, and I'm obviously a car fanatic and am not against enjoying a hobby. Just think like many things in life, a little balance and perspective can make all things better.
Walking away from my soap box now...
#65
01-07-2018, 11:53 AM
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#66
01-07-2018, 03:32 PM
Not singling anyone out here, and don't mean to offend. It's just comments like the above get my attention.
I make my living providing low income housing. There are some generally wonderful, hard working people in my buildings that get up at 5:00 a.m., six days a week, to work for wages most of us would find ridiculous. Even with working 70 hour work weeks and living modestly, their discretionary income each month is just a few hundred $$.
If those of us who are more fortunate than the folks I am describing (through perhaps privilege of birth, luck, talent, intelligence or an even greater work ethic) could just keep some perspective, we might not have over 50% of millennials in the USA in favor of socialism.
The animosity towards the top 1, 5, and 10% is growing. Maybe one part of the solution would involve those in the upper echelons rediscovering the value of reinvesting in their fellow citizens. Perhaps something substantial like a college endowment, or smaller, like a bonus for an employee or an oversize tip for a hospitality worker serving us on a holiday, or an anonymous gift to a neighbor, etc. The possibilities are endless, and the impact on society can be equally impressive.
Not in anyway suggesting there is anything wrong with enjoying the fruits of one's labor, and I'm obviously a car fanatic and am not against enjoying a hobby. Just think like many things in life, a little balance and perspective can make all things better.
I make my living providing low income housing. There are some generally wonderful, hard working people in my buildings that get up at 5:00 a.m., six days a week, to work for wages most of us would find ridiculous. Even with working 70 hour work weeks and living modestly, their discretionary income each month is just a few hundred $$.
If those of us who are more fortunate than the folks I am describing (through perhaps privilege of birth, luck, talent, intelligence or an even greater work ethic) could just keep some perspective, we might not have over 50% of millennials in the USA in favor of socialism.
The animosity towards the top 1, 5, and 10% is growing. Maybe one part of the solution would involve those in the upper echelons rediscovering the value of reinvesting in their fellow citizens. Perhaps something substantial like a college endowment, or smaller, like a bonus for an employee or an oversize tip for a hospitality worker serving us on a holiday, or an anonymous gift to a neighbor, etc. The possibilities are endless, and the impact on society can be equally impressive.
Not in anyway suggesting there is anything wrong with enjoying the fruits of one's labor, and I'm obviously a car fanatic and am not against enjoying a hobby. Just think like many things in life, a little balance and perspective can make all things better.
Play me a song on the world's smallest violin...you know nothing about anyone here that they haven't told you. "Providing low income housing" is supposed to what? Make me feel like you have some unique insight? Give me a break. You act like we're all some 20 y/o trust fund babies sitting on boat having no idea what the world is like outside our little bubble.
You completely missed (or just ignored) the point of the post. Not only that, you don't have the perspective that you're advocating for in your final sentence. That's really the problem with this generation. It's their lack of real perspective of these "upper echelons" you speak of. It's easy to throw stones at the fantastically wealthy and lump in all people who have a few nice things. My statement was made vis a vis push back that spending $X on something for a car, in a car forum, was foolish. In a forum, no less, where we all own things that are above and beyond what is necessary for getting from point A to B. That's it. And you come in with this whiny virtue signaling, and start making assumptions about others and offering what we should do to 're-invest in our fellow citizens'? Lol. You dont have the first clue what anyone in here does or doesn't do for others. I can play too: You own apartments and rent to people who have to pay like anyone else. Often, the state pays some or all of it for them. Don't act like you're some charity. How's my assumption?
My issue is that animosity you speak of. Across the board. It's now that anyone who has something perceived as 'more' has some how stolen that from those with less. It's bullshit, and the "hard working people who have nothing" narrative is also bullshit. You're what? Like 50 y/o? If you're even semi-aware, and over the age of 18-19, you've met hard working people who have little. You've also met hard working people who have a lot. You also know lazy people with nothing and lazy people who scratched the lotto ticket of life. Listen, life is a bell curve and we're all on it somewhere.
So here: "FWIW the shop is a startup, owned by two brothers, either immigrants or children of immigrants (didn't ask because it doesn't matter, except in irrelevant sanctimonious threads like this one has become ) paying insane taxes in an insanely taxed state to start a business that is their passion." Do I get my Social Goodness and Citizenry badge? People saying things like that is cringey..but that they're actually serious is what's disturbing.
If you'd like some real perspective, spend some time in an inner city DV shelter, child care facility or crisis center. Or maybe go out on the street and ask the millennials to give up their financed $1200 phones, financed clothes and financed coffees and see what response you get. Maybe part of the solution is to not act like having something nice is a crime. Oh and not driving a car around people who are not 'at your level' is insulting and absurd. It's a car. It's nice. People like nice cars. If you can't share the enjoyment without without feeling like an *******, that's your issue, not theirs and certainly not mine.
It's just comments like the above get my attention.
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