Do a flip. Take a fall. You don’t have to get yourself up on your own and keep yourself going. There’s always a safety net ready to catch you. At least that seems to be the message today. Go into debt, over buy in a new house, drive drunk, don’t take care of your own health, cheat on your taxes, all that stuff. There’s always a way out: bankruptcy, a good lawyer, a government program. Something. Something other than personal responsibility.
I’ve lived through a time when personal responsibility was basically it. You were essentially on your own. No safety nets. That was a test of adulthood.
These days government is not us. It’s them. And this takes responsibility off of our shoulders one more time.
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