When the privileged fall... [View All]

[misanthrope]

...It looks like the thud is bigger than they anticipated.

While you normally want to have the utmost sympathy for the victims of misfortune, some within this article don't quite pluck all my heartstrings with full gusto.

snip: Nine months ago he lost his job as the security manager for the western United States for a Fortune 500 company, overseeing a budget of $1.2 million and earning about $70,000 a year. Now he is grateful for the $12 an hour he makes in what is known in unemployment circles as a “survival job” at a friend’s janitorial services company. But that does not make the work any easier.

“You’re fighting despair, discouragement, depression every day,” Mr. Cooper said.


Sounds like Mr. Cooper is having to readjust to what reality is for a great deal of his countrymen and will be on every day of their lives with no end. No, it's not fun but that is life for many of us that the nation chooses to forget about.

Hubris has come to town, is kicking ass and taking names. The overall impression I'm left with from the article is that a lot of these people's biggest lesson to be learned from all this is the apparent way they looked down their noses at those less fortunate than them. It would appear the readjustment of superficialities and materialism is causing angst. I guess the guy in the corner office isn't intrinsically any better a person than the fellow mopping the floors, now is he?

At the risk of sounding delusional, maybe the best thing to come out of these economic stresses might be a change in the way we view ourselves and others. Will we ever realize socio-economic hierarchy is a tool of oppression?