I grew up in the rural South and almost everyone I knew including black people had at least a college degree and worked white collar jobs/own businesses. I'm proud to be from a sh*thole~!
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You live in LA right? I think you should get down there and teach people some skills. You must know something. There are lots of places trying to do this. When I lived in LA I tried to frequent Homeboy Industries.
https://www.homeboyindustries.org/?g...xoCB2sQAvD_BwE
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01-12-2018, 12:54 PM #99
I'm generally a city guy but there's a difference between variety and quality.
Sure, you get more of a variety of culture and food in cities. But they're lower quality.
Food is generally lower quality because input costs (food, utilities, rent, etc) and labor are more expensive for them. Restaurants have a huge failure rate and a 2% average profit. There's no way they're eating those costs and staying profitable. So, they make up by skimping on portions and using lower quality food and just generally cutting corners.
Food in rural areas -- all you can get is American food. However, the meat is better. You get more. They don't skimp on anything. It's better food.
Culture in cities -- there's a bunch of stuff that 99% of people go to like cultural fairs. They go to them as tourists. It's not "real" culture unless you're an immigrant minority and even then it's just try to recreate what you're missing from home. Culture in rural areas is real. Instead of the cultural fair with a bunch of token foreigners dancing their cultural dance, it's the town fair that's been a 100 year tradition. They are real, indigenous traditions born in the town. The townspeople have real connections to that culture and the activities going on. It's like the foreign culture fair in the actual foreign country. Again, it's a variety vs quality thing.
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That feeling when Utah is the No. 1 State for business, Wyoming has the lowest per capita number of welfare recipients, and West Virginia has the lowest per capita crime numbers with the highest per capita gun ownership numbers...
Stay rektd.
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01-12-2018, 02:41 PM #119
From a guy that’s just reading this thread while taking a dump, it seems like you two actually agree on the core idea here on how to take care of the homeless population (job training, etc).
I think he is merely suggesting that some of your time could be used to help with training the less fortunate. LA is going to keep throwing money (welfare) at the problem without actually addressing the problem.
But if you could donate some of your time to help train, mentor, or coach a less fortunate person into a productive member of society, then you are one person closer to having less money suckled from the government teet - which is something we all want.
Edit: not all homeless are junkies, not all of them got themselves in the position they are in by their own actions, and most do not have a way to get out of the lifestyle they are in - especially in a place like LA - and don’t have a way to get out of a place like LA and be able to eat/sleep/surviveO|||||||O Official Jeep Brah Crew O|||||||O -creator-
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