Work Hard, Be Happy

By now you've probably read about Talia Jane and her attempt to publicly shame her employer. She succeeded, although perhaps not in the way she had intended: Yelp! obviously needs to improve its hiring process for these entry-level positions; weed out the whiners. An entertaining retort was provided by Stefanie Williams:

"Work ethic is not something that develops from entitlement. Quite the opposite, in fact. It develops when you realize there are a million other people who could perform your job and you are lucky to have one. It comes from sucking up the bad aspects and focusing on the good and above all it comes from humility. It comes from modesty. And those are two things, based on your article, that you clearly do not possess."

This ordeal wreaks of entitlement. She made poor financial decisions and expects everyone else to take responsibility. Bernie Sanders' entire campaign is no doubt propped up by Talia Jane and those like her. Why work when you can instead hold out your hand and be taken care of?

When did socialism become fashionable? And when did "rich" become derogatory? Maybe the precepts of socialism have always been popular (to some degree), but the name itself taboo?

Norman Thomas was a socialist running for President with the Socialist Party. And now we have a socialist running for President (and not entirely failing) with the Democratic Party. You have to hand it to the Liberals for finally ending the charade.

Entitlement didn't just appear overnight and our national (and state) system (culture?) of welfare not only perpetuates the problem, but actually encourages it. We literally reward people to *not* work and to *not* take care of themselves! And what sane person, subsisting on handouts, would vote to end that subsistence? To be clear, one doesn't actually have to be insane to vote for the greater good, one just has to be better that one's present circumstances. Precious few are.

P.S. I sent a link to Talia's post to my wife who replied, "Also, for an English major, she had quite a few run on sentences near the end of her rant." Icing on the cake.