Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No, Doug, anger is absolutely necessary. I'm angry that you would post something so stupid. Your experience decades ago is IRRELEVANT. You graduated and earned a LIVING WAGE. Todays grads are being paid ONE HALF the most minimal cost of barely surviving. ONE FUCKING HALF. I'm one of the lucky ones, I am self employed and making twice what the average person here makes (keep in mind the average college grad in Indiana makes less than $15,000 a year). You can't live on less than $30,000. Already half the population of the USA is so poor that they're exempt from federal income tax. It has been possible to oppress them, keep them poor, and pooh-pooh their experience while spitting on them...because the poor used to be uneducated and unable to organize. Guess what, Doug. The poor now? Millions of them are sporting bachelors and even masters degrees! The communist revolution in Russia was led by educated men, like Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, and Bukharin, who couldn't earn a decent living despite being well educated. They had the education to make them leaders, who organized the workers and ordered them to cut the throats of the middle class. The rich mostly escaped, they had the money to flee abroad. The middle class didn't. They died. As a historian, I see so many parallels in the USA today. A huge corps of unemployed and poverty-stricken underemployed university grads looking for something to do with their lives. They're getting angry, and this is the most heavily armed nation on Earth. Think about that one, if you can pull your head out of the sand and realize that your experience is not relevant to today. -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-437-8990 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 Become a fan on Facebook On 5/10/12 11:09 PM, "Doug Herr" <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: >Phil Forrest wrote: > >>I don't see how many folks in my generation will be able to >>invest in a Leica kit down the road. > >Phil, I purchased my first Leica (a new old stock Leicaflex SL with one >lens) when I was making minimum wage as a waiter in Alaska and paying off >college loans. It was certainly not my dream job of a field biologist >but it paid enough for that first Leica and to keep my rusty VW running. >30-something years later I still can't buy whatever I want but one way or >another I get what I need to keep making photos. Patience and >persistence work better than anger. > >Doug Herr >Birdman of Sacramento >http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information