5 cents a day is wrong and so is agreeing to work there. if i lived in a 3rd world country i'd grow my own food and build my own shack. fuck the factory.
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That's not exactly how it works. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure that it's one of the only means of income, and working on your own farm is near impossible in the sense you mean it. Don't be a fucktard.
Evidently, this Mike fellow doesn't actually have real world experience.
News flash! Reality is a cold-hearted bitch. If you get dealt a bad hand, the best you can hope for is survival. Blind luck is the only way to get ahead signifigantly. Those in a third world nation don't have the chance to grow their own food. You need money to buy the seeds. You need money to maintain the crops. And you need money to get supplies for your shack.
I have news for you, Mike. Unless you were born in the privileged class, your future life will begin to resemble third world fortunes. The off-shoring of the North American economy for cheap labor and higher profits will bite your generation right in the ass.
Ah, why didn't anybody come up with this before. This guy has just gone and solved world hunger and poverty in a single sentence.
But wait, wouldn't you need land for your farm, and a huge overlay to pay for the seeding of crops/stock. And supplies.
1. You have to own land to grow your own crops. You can't just pick a spot and claim it as yours without getting yourself in some future trouble.
2. Not all areas are furtile for growing crops and if they are, being dependent on the land is a bad idea. If the weather is bad, insects eat your crops one year, winter comes without you being able to store enough excess food because the land isn't great for that sort of thing, etc, you're seriously screwed. This is why the population remainined very small under this system and only grew when we introduced indrusty.
3. Where exactly are you going to get seeds and supplies to grow your own food? There's no Walmart to buy whatever farming supplies out there - A twit like you would be completely lost.
You would have to buy seed and fertilizer, probably tools and water transport supplies.
You would have to have some high quality land, safe from animals and thieves.
You might be taxed by the government.
Even if you got a crop, you would have to harvest, store, preserve and/or sell it. More labor and things to buy.
And, you're going to be doing all this with no money and no food in your stomach. Doesn't sound likely, does it?
Please do not fuck the factory, others have to use it.
Yeah, and to overcome the foreign debt issue, the US should just print more money right?
And to overcome terrorism, we should kill their immediate relatives till they love us.
And to reduce crime stats, we should legalise rape.
You are a class 1 idiot! Your comments should not be viewed without safety glasses and appropriate PPE.
what an idiot.
although, in his defense, at least he's cute.
still an idiot with no grasp on reality, though.
<<The off-shoring of the North American economy for cheap labor and higher profits will bite your generation right in the ass.>>
Sadly, no. They are going to get theirs and it's going to bite MY generation in the ass. Once they have their nice retirement pension they don't care if the economy tanks. We'll be the ones dealing with it while they bask in fat savings they got from selling out the US.
I'd be willing to be that Mike here is a middle-class kid from the suburbs. He's probably only seen farming on television.
As so many others have already pointed out, farming isn't as easy as it sounds. And even with the money to buy equipment, and a decent piece of land, subsistance farming can be pretty tough. You get to contend with drought and disease. You have to protect your crops from being eaten, and keep predators away from your livestock. If you have any. And if you want to sell anything, you have to find a market, and hope that people are paying a decent price for things. And this isn't even taking into account all of the other problems that face people in the third world. Farming in those conditions probably makes working in the factory look pretty good.
This seems like part of that mentality that if someone is poor or homeless etc. then it's their own fault. Like people in Ethiopia are just too durn stupid and lazy not to live like that.
"They got AIDS? Well then they should just stop fuckin'! THey don't HAVE to keep having kids!"
Yeah, retard, they just don't want it bad enough, right? They're just taking the easy way out?
"Look at those distended stomachs and flies! Why don't they just go to 'Burger King' and then go buy some 'Raid'?"
Mike sounds like a real, 'Go To' guy, like, "go to hell, mike!"
Why don't you "grow" a BRAIN?!
Some people don't have money, materials, lands, freedom ...you just don't have a brain!
Yes, and you forget that your kids would die before they are five, that you would be subjected to all the unfair laws attached to living in hardship, or wars or coup d´etats, and that you would have to work 14 hours to match the productivity of the 1st world. That´s why Canary Islands are so full of poor people looking for help.
You can either grow a garden, or raise livestock to survive. Ok
I grew up in the Idahoan desert. We raised chickens and cultivated a garden. We had all the right materials, all the right stuff, and still the garden died in the summer sun, and the chickens were eaten by marauding dogs before they reached maturity, so we didn't get eggs to eat from them, and we couldn't very well make the dog throw up and give us back our livestock.
And this was in the middle of Idaho, with proper irrigation, and some ability to get even a little bit out of the ground.
Now try and do the same thing in the middle of the sunbaked African earth, without irrigation, without WATER even. IT'S NOT GOING TO WORK DUMBASS!
Slainte!
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Fantasist.
When my son was little, the first time I tried to teach him how to break away and run from "bad strangers" if he were attacked, he kept insisting that he would just beat them up like the Power Rangers if anyone gave him trouble. He really couldn't see why this was not possible. Thank goodness he never had to put his fantasy to the test.
Mike, here, is the same way; in his own imagination, it seems obvious that one can "just" do such-and-such to get a desired result easily, without any thought for the underlying facts that make his imaginary solution unfeasible. This kind of inability to grasp greater realities is understandable in a 5-year-old child; it is sheer insanity in someone who is old enough to be posting his views on the Internet.
~David D.G.
Yeah, great idea, Mike! If you live in a 3rd World country, you can just grow your own food.
Since I live in a 1st World country, I'm going to get rich solving the energy crisis. It's easy: Just take a generator, start it up, hook it to itself, and use it to power itself while you use the excess electricity to power your house!
Actually, if he did indeed suggest this idea seriously, the point of my analogy would go flying over his head. How do I explain this concept in words small enough for him to understand?
Incidentally, Mike, if you were to send seeds over to some 3rd World country and maybe even buy a plot of land for them, I'm sure they'd be most grateful.
you know what? i'm gonna kidnap you in the dead of nice and abandon you a rural, impoverished area of the 3rd world country of your choosing, and let you build your shack and grow your farm. let's see how well you do.
You have no idea at all, do you?
The answer is no, if you were struggling.
OK fucker, try it. You're an American so you could scavenge, eek out an existance on others refuse. It'd be a uncomfortable, unhealthy short life.
In the third world there is no unused useful material or food.
You also own no land so your planting nothing and if you did your neighbors are really hungry too.
No concept of what it takes to survive. Raised in a house with food and clothing and provided for until 18 to whatever. You have no concept of what 3rd world means
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