Serena Williams- Giant crybaby

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UPDATED: Saturday, September 27, 2025 20:37
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Oppyh:

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Well, the "if everyone gets a PhD" question is just stupid because that will never happen.... if they did, they would have jobs, but there would be a hell of a lot of overqualified workers in the world.

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So the "answer" to sub-minimal jobs is NOT "get an education"? Because while it works for SOME people, if EVERYBODY tried it it wouldn't work.

So, to my question: When people are starving and dying for lack of clean water, need houses and safety and medical care and education, when forests need to be replanted and wetlands restored, green energy needs to be developed and forests thinned... there are so many useful things to do, why do we have unemployment?

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Oh yeah, Mike. I forgot you lived in a 'hood for a long time. There's a behavior that one adopts, I think, that says I belong here.

OTOH, there's a funny thing abut Compton (and LA ghettos in general): they look surprisingly middle-class. It's all good- until suddenly it's not all good. And "belonging" doesn't protect you: Did you know that Serena and Venus' older sister Yetunde, was shot and killed in Compton?

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Originally posted by SignyM:
So the "answer" to sub-minimal jobs is NOT "get an education"? Because while it works for SOME people, if EVERYBODY tried it it wouldn't work

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If EVERYBODY in the world world became auto mechanics....WOULD THERE BE ENOUGH JOBS FOR THEM???????? No. Hey, you can continue to ask that same question until the end of time, and the answer will always be no. No, because it never will happen, and no because it's a very, very stupid question.

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So, to my question: When people are starving and dying for lack of clean water, need houses and safety and medical care and education, when forests need to be replanted and wetlands restored, green energy needs to be developed and forests thinned... there are so many useful things to do, why do we have unemployment?

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At least your question makes sense.

Let me put it this way:
For all our accumulated knowledge, the people of earth are very dim-witted. That's right, practically dumb.
We won't deal with the problems you mentioned until after it is far too late to fix them. So in theory, we could have a work force of over a million rectifying the rape, and pillaging of our beautiful planet. But we wont do that.
Sorry to say, we are on the road to extinction. The minority of cautionary advise(you, and I) try to give waving our arms, and putting up red flags will be laughed at and ignored by the big corporations. So when the world population is at 2 million people, and the rich greedy types are puking their guts out and scratching their heads as to what went wrong....one of them will have the audacity to state "what could we have done to prevent this?"

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My question was hypothetical. You could substitute and kind of word you want, even a made up one: "ghobydony". But, while you are arguing, you actually agree with me - there are not enough good jobs for everybody. Even though there are more than enough people who are qualified, there aren't enough good jobs for them.

I was reading an article in CNN regarding what do you do when you are qualified, but not hired ? The head hunter who wrote the article said THERE ARE ABOUT 100 QUALIFIED PEOPLE FOR EVERY JOB.

Obviously - I think - simply being qualified is not enough to better your life. Because a nearly everyone will NOT make it, or at least not be rewarded with a job that matches their qualifications. There will only be a lucky few.

This economy has a lot of people who are expendable. The point - still - holds: there is a certain percentage of people who are throwaways.

Not everyone will make it, and it doesn't matter what their qualifications are.

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Originally posted by OPPYH:

So when the world population is at 2 million people, and the rich greedy types are puking their guts out and scratching their heads as to what went wrong....one of them will have the audacity to state "what could we have done to prevent this?"

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That sounds very, very familiar. Something about "Nobody could have foreseen this!" in the wake of things like 9/11, and Katrina, and the collapse of the mortgage bubble, and the Iraq Debacle.

Usually the cries of "Nobody could have foreseen this!" are followed by pronouncements that "Now is not the time to place blame." And when you hear someone say that, you at least know who's to blame! :)

Mike

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And the smile signals emptiness
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