Jeff Ott may just make a squatter out of me!

Sep 07, 2005 22:01

How many times have I heard some human in a suit or a frat costume telling me to get a job, as though an absence of a job means something besides not having a job. I could work at McDonalds(and destroy the peoples land in south america, torture cows with factory farming, poison people here and encourage people to not cook for themselves), I could ( Read more... )

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balasubramanyam September 8 2005, 05:12:53 UTC
Pretty much right on. I was going to suggest that you could work at a library, as that would help spread knowledge with a much smaller cost per capita to the environment, as compared to a book store. But you're pretty much right that participating in a capitalist economy in any way takes morality out of your hands and your actions will be detrimental to basically all forms of life as we know it, whether directly or indirectly.
I guess I'm working on that one.

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captainihateyou September 8 2005, 18:51:01 UTC
agree to disagree. i think what is said here is upholding truths, but i think there is an underyling sentiment here (or even a dominant one) that presupposes that everyone that works is a schmuck, and i don't know about that. blame the forefathers that set up basically systematic slavery for the rest of us, but don't blame those who inherently follow its rules for means of survival.

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startop September 8 2005, 12:47:48 UTC
you're a beating

i think i may be going to UNT
if so, we should hang out a lot and shit

While I do think that a lot of Ott's calims are so rooted in traditional liberal nonsense, he wrecks having a job pretty dirty.

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anonymous September 9 2005, 02:56:52 UTC
I agree with most of that, if not all.

-Travis Huse.

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anonymous September 9 2005, 03:25:29 UTC
you could be a lifeguard with me and save some lives.
but really, you wouldnt be saving any lives, and you could just play the aqua teen hunger force all day long.

and then we could go live in africa!

loveyou.

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indie_drive_in September 9 2005, 13:06:10 UTC
yeah dont get those jobs. be a music engineer and teacher like me. duh.

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