In American we are free to choose our lifestyle. No matter if you
are born on Pennsylvania avenue or in the north Bronx, you can
choose the level at which you want to live.
Increasingly, many Americans are
choosing to live the free-and-easy vagabond lifestyle of the poor
and destitute. Fewer and fewer are choosing to be among the top 1%.
With the popularity of Jack Kerouac and Huck Finn books, many are
attracted to this. The wonderful freedom one gets living off the
land in urban areas is a feeling which is best described with
smells. Many choose homelessness after a serious illness or
bankruptcy in order to take advantage of the fine foods and
healthcare offered at thousands of dispensaries nation-wide. In
fact, most homeless people enjoy better quality of life that those
who choose to make $35,000 or less a year! It is a lifestyle choice
that is increasingly popular among college graduates in the
high-tech area.
Who are we to deny this true
freedom to so many of our fellow citizens? Why should we try to
train or in any way help folks who love their lives the way they
are? We would be taking away volunteer work from so may of our
senior citizens too in the process. It also goes against one of our
most basic tennents, the freedom to fail. In
Communist Russia, if you were a great
violinist as a kid, you'd be whisked off to some posh school to
develop your talent as a national treasure. Here in the USA, you
have the freedom to never develop any talent you have. You don't
have to burden yourself with the work and effort required to see
what you really could have done. You could have been a contender,
but you can choose to be a power-slacker! That's your right- and we
support it!
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