I believe and accept all of this, and can do so w/o judgement. But then my response is: "ok, poor people don't value careers and money, and prefer to 'fit in' at the trailer park or the crack house more than they desire to improve themselves. Very well. It's a free country" >>> https://twitter.com/Chris_arnade/status/1144250915312087042 …
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2/ So if you'd rather work 15 hours per week at a bottom rung job and live in a trailer park where your mom and six aunts and 12 cousins are ... how exactly is this my problem? Yes, yes. You told Brandt, he told me.
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3/ Let me get this straight. Every time someone micturates on their own life in this fair country of ours, this is my problem?
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4/ But Lebowski quotes aside, my point is serious. I'm a libertarian. I support the right of Silicon Valley lunatics to work 100 hours per week. I support the right of blue collar guys like my neighbor to work 40 and have a ton of motor toys in his yard. And >>>
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5/ I support the right of people who treasure free time with their families and with small, local, comfortable places, to make the choices that give them what they want.
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6/ It can be (and likely will be) mistake for cruelty by progressives when I follow this to the logical conclusion, but it's not. I don't want to turn away from the poor or cut off funding for them because I hate them or judge them.
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7/ I mean, yes, I can definitely flip into that moralizing mode. But I don't spend all of my time there. So, non-moralizing mode: this is what you want to do. Very well! Do it. Enjoy it. ...but your preferences are not my problem. /shrug
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