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Populist_Prole

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20. Crazy how so many accept this as normal

Tue Sep 16, 2014, 02:18 PM

Sep 2014

It's gotten so out of hand that anymore many equate the desire to get even adequate rest as laziness. It's terrible enough when the working poor have to burn the candle at both ends just to survive; but so many do this by choice too. "Sleep is overrated", "You can sleep when you're dead" etc they say as they spin the hamster wheel ever faster for their boss man in the misguided notion that they'll elevate themselves economically.

No, they'll be the richest corpse in the graveyard, I say...though they scoff at that and sneer at me for being unambitious.

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Half of lower class Americans literally can’t afford to sleep [View all] n2doc Sep 2014 OP

k&r for labor. n/t Laelth Sep 2014 #1

He is doing pretty good for only being in the yeoman6987 Sep 2014 #26

No sleep! More American exceptional ism and innovation! grahamhgreen Sep 2014 #2

And here come my great gripe about politicians on the left. Skidmore Sep 2014 #3

+1 (nt) enough Sep 2014 #9

"the vaunted middle class soon swell the ranks of the poor" annabanana Sep 2014 #14

That is capitalism and globalization for ya YoungDemCA Sep 2014 #17

K&R.... daleanime Sep 2014 #4

Kids are a money pit PasadenaTrudy Sep 2014 #5

Don't you know? America punishes the "less than fit" AZ Progressive Sep 2014 #6

Yeah, not a genius or exceptionally talented... YoungDemCA Sep 2014 #13

I saw someone post on Facebook JonLP24 Sep 2014 #7

Fatigue and falling asleep on the job daredtowork Sep 2014 #8

similarly justabob Sep 2014 #16

Coverage daredtowork Sep 2014 #18

CEO to worker pay ratio is 475:1 in this country. Initech Sep 2014 #10

So he comes to this country in 2010 woolldog Sep 2014 #11

Get a job!!! Cali_Democrat Sep 2014 #12

We're becoming a society where *every basic human need* is a privilege of the upper class YoungDemCA Sep 2014 #15

Romney claims food is an "entitlement" daredtowork Sep 2014 #19

Crazy how so many accept this as normal Populist_Prole Sep 2014 #20

Hate to this to you, but remember this?: Guy Whitey Corngood Sep 2014 #21

Yes I do. Populist_Prole Sep 2014 #22

I'd say right on both counts. Junior's reaction seemed genuiene (in how disgusting it was). And Guy Whitey Corngood Sep 2014 #23

Thanks for posting that. Refreshed my memory. Populist_Prole Sep 2014 #24

You'll never guess where I found it: Guy Whitey Corngood Sep 2014 #25

And heaven help those who want to raise a family NickB79 Sep 2014 #27

I worked the nightshift with a coworker like you Skittles Sep 2014 #30

You were a saint. NickB79 Sep 2014 #33

key phrase..."A series of exes bore him four children..." SoCalDem Sep 2014 #28

Congrats! You found a Tree n2doc Sep 2014 #29

do you know undergroundpanther Sep 2014 #31

If he's working both jobs at NYC's minimum wage, he makes $25K Recursion Sep 2014 #32