[chickenfries]

I would really like to see you say that with a straight face to someone stuck in a minimum wage jobs who can’t afford healthcare. Seriously. This optimism about the long term does nothing for someone who is suffering in the short and medium term.

That comparison to Rockafeller is nonsense. Go ask someone working at McDonald’s if they’d trade places with one of the richest men ever.

[johnwheeler]

Health insurance, minimum wages, fast food even... This is but a sampling of the human progress I mentioned parsed out of a single misguided post you made. There are people in the world far worse off than your friend making minimum wage.

You take these things for granted because you live in a rich enough society that enables you to do so.

[chickenfries]

You really assume too much about me. I'm one generation removed from 3rd world farmers.

You're convinced that anyone who has a problem with their standard of living in America has no perspective, when really you're the one who can't see the perspective of the lower class of someone living in one of the richest countries in the world. Seriously, you're making these arguments on the internet, on a forum where everyone is presumed to be working in technology and therefore not starving, how about you go volunteer at a shelter in your city like I do and tell those people "cheer up! I bet you wouldn't want to switch places with John Rockefeller!"

I know you won't though.