but a credible promise of an alleviated yet steady and implacable rate of decay is a really hard thing to get excited about.
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I'm merely quoted & responded to your self-quoted tweet.
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the topic was the messaging of the "ladders of opportunity" metaphor, your reinterpretation for Trump is cute but irrelevant
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It didn't dawn on me to infer "ladders of opportunity" to be some sort of victim blaming metaphor. Is that what you meant?
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basically. if you have a bunch of people trying to get up a ladder, only some of them are going to make it.
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if you weren't one of them, well, i guess you just didn't want it badly enough. you had the opportunity.
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Right. The difference between handing out buttered bread, or making bread & butter available & expecting ppl to make an effort
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sure, pal. shame on all those millennials working three minimum wage jobs for not making an effort, amirite?
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No. they're making an effort, but $15-min isn't the answer, it's just a band-aid. The real fix is in fixing the jobs market.
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