Teacher explains the double standard that teachers are held to in the US

Lived as a vagabond. Noble i guess, stupid but good for you.

It was neither noble nor stupid. It was fun and a great experience(albeit difficult). I'm not going to sit here and pretend I did it for any reason other than I wanted an adventure.

Experience shred or empathy for poor. Congratulations for having to go through such extremes for something that comes natural to most self respecting human beings.

You don't seem to share that empathy for the poor. I already had empathy--but until I saw true poverty up close, I couldn't understand it. And if you can't understand something you can't truly empathize with people who have suffered it. I've never been raped--I'll never truly understand the feelings that come along with it.

Convincing yourself that capitslism is the root of those poor people's problems. Yea being poor is pretty fucking depressing, and it becomes really fucking easy to start pointing fingers at what you "think" the real problem is when your staring at it from the dirty Shit hole under an over pass.

No, Capitalism isn't the root of the problem. There will always be poverty. Always has been and always will be. But our increasingly unfettered version of capitalism has been steadily increasing the number of people in poverty for 30 years. It's not a coincidence that the US had the largest middle class in history during the post-war era while we were greatly increasing the social safety net.

Completely disavow libertarian view of free market fundamentals and personal freedom/responsibility simply because your "political views" most likely now resemble something along the lines of; "hey poor people need help, well that group of people over there has lots of money, let's force them to give away some of it".

No. My political views are the people who get the most out of society should pay the most back into it. Taxes are the cost of living in society--and Bill Gates has gotten much more out of society than that homeless veteran on the street corner who purposefully gets arrested just so he has a warm bed during winter.

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