You're judging people who have a different skill set than you do, because they are different.
I try not to judge anyone. If I did/am doing, I can assure you that I will look inward to see what it is about me that does that.
I ended up in law school. But that doesn't make me "elite" as compared to someone whose skill is more mechanical, and who is good with their hands and is in the trades.
As I said before, what you do for a living does not make one an "elite". It's an attitude. The attitude I have described previously. Telling people how they should live, if they only thought the way "the elite" did they would see the light.
I don't think I have ever berated lawyers and if I did I am sorry. All proffesions have their purpose else they would not be a proffession. I believe I have berated politicians, but that's because they did not live up to or keep their promises.
If being "the enemy" means I support and defend the Constitution of the United States (as I have so sworn on multiple occasions); believe everyone should have access to good free (tax-payer supported) public education; want safe drinking water, clean air, and to slow or stop sea-level rise and other impacts of global climate change; believe you can marry who you love, regardless of gender or race; believe that no one should face discrimination in jobs or housing or access to justice because of their gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, national origin, or age; and believe every citizen deserves an unfettered right to vote, then yes, I am the enemy and I'm damn proud of it.
I see nothing here to disagree with other than calling yourself "the enemy". Merely having a difference of opinion on some subjects does not an enemy make. If everyone agreed, how boring it would be. And society would probably crumble as one sidedness gives way to stagnation.
So I may not be building homes, but I'm in court defending women and children from their battering spouse, who is trying to batter them again using the court system to try and avoid paying support, or sitting on a local board, or helping kids learn how to read, or sorting food at a for pantry, and yes, even sometimes, writing a check.
I appologize for sounding the way I did that those who donate money is "less" important than those who give of themselves and their time. I applaud you for your work with the down trodden. Thank you. I see many battered/raped women in the rooms of AA and know the services they need and sometimes get. There is much need for what you do.
Right, because that's what people are doing . . . just sitting around whining. There aren't any people working their asses off at 1, 2 or even 3 jobs and barely making ends meet. If they aren't doing well, it must be because they didn't budget or plan properly, like you did.
Nice leap. There are plenty sitting around whining just as there are plenty out there working 1,2 and 3 jobs to make ends meet. Where did I say different?
Lawyers have very high rates of substance abuse, depression/suicide,
From my own, very unscientific observation of people in the rooms, the construction trades (carpenters, plumbers, steamfitters, ironworkers, etc)are the most represented category especially in the 40+ age group. Seems drinking on the job was a time honored tradition for sometime. Engineers (EE, ME, CE, etc) seem to be the least represented. Cops and firemen are another large group.
And I am not aying that lawers do not have a high rate of substance abuse/depression/suicide.
