Breadwinning is quickly becoming a foreign concept in the Western world, as the new strategy is simply breadtaking. Why work hard to win, when you can simply take?
What you need to understand is they are simply shameless, like they feel no shame to be dependent on others to provide for them. Historically people actually had shame, they would feel it hurts their dignity to accept even charity (voluntary donation of money)! But now, people in the West are even happy to take money even forcefully through the tax system. No more dignity, no more shame.
And this behavior is incentivized by our political system and tax system.
More details on this perspective, in my response to him, here:
Found the economically-illiterate entitled socialist, who refuses to think about personal responsibility (to actually become competitive in the global economy, to save money by being frugal and then to invest money to grow savings — you know, the things others on Earth do to become successful in life, doesn’t happen by magic!) as the answer to lower class financial problems… who instead only ever has his hand out trying to steal from the productive (and ready to blame the productive instead of himself at every opportunity!) to satisfy the unproductive’s natural urge to get money for nothing.
Meanwhile, in reality land in 2022:
>> The bottom 43% of US income tax filers pay -4.8% of federal income taxes (negative b/c they get a tax refund credit on average because of tax law).
>> The top 10% of taxpayers pay 80% of federal taxes.
But muh “rIcH nEeD tO pAy ThEiR fAiR sHaRe”!!!11
How about the bottom 43% of America actually sacrifices (studies during childhood to actually learn in and out of school + and actually works hard in first job to make good impression and get better job and actually learns on the job + maybe even starts their own company from learnings, all the while being frugal to maximize savings and then invest in a diversified stock index fund to grow savings over time with compound interest, and so on…) to build useful skills and become competitive in the global economy, the way people all around the world take responsibility to do?
Nahhh, way too much hard work!
Better to just waste childhood not valuing education, and then be a goodfornothing at your low-wage job so no one values you (IF indeed you are even capable of getting and holding the low-wage job), and then take your entitled personality that you carefully developed over all those years onto hackernews! (to complain about the small 10% minority who actually lived responsibly and made something of their lives and now pays 80% of federal taxes!)
This system is literally already socialist/communist in philosophy, in the distribution of percent of people paying taxes that sustains the system, but no, even this isn’t good enough. Why? Because of course it’s never good enough for the spoiled brat who is incentivized by the system to always be a spoiled brat, while 10% of the country literally carries them on their back.
Shameless!
You feel no shame to be dependent on others to provide for you. Historically people actually had shame, they would feel it hurts their dignity to accept even charity (voluntary donation of money)! But now, people in the West like you are even happy to take money even forcefully through the tax system. No more dignity, no more shame.