I apologise for readers who have tried to post a comment and have been unable...I have not been using blogger for very long and well the commenting system is different then Facebook...I have edited the settings and hope that this will fix the problem...on the upside the man who informed me of this problem is enable his own posting based upon his comment- Yay!
Here is the comment as appeared on his Facebook Account-
its all good, no need to apologuise, I will say one thing though I tried to leave a comment on there for you to get the ball rolling for you, and it was all too hard, had to give up in frustration :(
the message was this feel free to paste i...t in there if you can get it in
"I'm fairly sure the future will happen reguardless of how much preparation goes in to it dale. As an old geezer I can now say, "back in my day...." the young's greatest burden is their high expectations of what life is going to give them, I have worked in many industries where it is difficult to get young people to take up the raines, At 41 I am very nearly the youngest garbo at cleanaway, and we have had enormous difficulty in getting in fresh blood, the job is not difficult, just unglamourous.....food for thought.
DOG..."
Dog does make a good point. We have had a good time in the West- we have developed professions where people are unlikely to get their arms crushed in factories, and are able to have a minimum wage; coupled with the desire of people to have their children 'have it better than they had it'...well in the end- won't people reach the apex of how good they can have it. It has been easy and profitable for societies to have the lower socioeconomic classes striving to move up- to have more, to purchase- the tennents of consumerism. People want to move up...people want to have things-why? Because we constantly reinforce to people that they want it, and as we should know, if you tell people something enough, soon enough it will be true. Now we have taken on this view were everybody is trying to scale up the pointed moutain cliff- and the people at the top keep encouraging the lower classes to keep going- just a little harder, while knowing that most will never make it. So why do we continue to climb- because we see on Talent and Reality Shows that these 'normal people' make it...with out even considering that these people are selected by producers for certain aspects...the shows are also heavily edited...a faux reality.
So if we are all striving up, how can we blame those immigrating in who are willing to take the 'less glamourous' jobs. These people are fufilling an essential need of society- a functional part of society. So perhaps we should be directing our young people to look at the less glamourous jobs in society- the cogs that keep all of the fashion, the tv, the music, the finance, everything afloat. Perhaps the Government should be making incentives to get people into these industries just as they have tried with Engineering and Women in Science...perhaps Youth for Regulation or Disposal Design for Youth. These are areas that are in just as much need- frankly Australia we cannot bemoan people comming here if we are not willing to do all the jobs that are available here.
Thank you Dog.
Dale Stam
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