Grosse Pointe resident calls Detroit 'third-world country' after robbery

[p69rrh51]

You don't think robbing people for a living is hard work? I'm almost certain that my job is significantly easier, safer, and less stressful than planning and executing enough successful robberies to consistently earn a comparable income, especially in a place as heavily patrolled as Grosse Pointe. I'm a pretty lazy guy, and there's no way in hell I'd give up my job to steal stuff from people full time, even if I lacked or rationalized away any moral inhibitions.

Sitting around watching people come and go is not hard, and I bet they can time to GP police to the minute. There is no planning just observation. Although I think everyone would love a job like that. And yes they are to LAZY to do something productive and that insight is from almost every hard working black customer of mine!

[antongast]

Sitting around watching people come and go is not hard, and I bet they can time to GP police to the minute. There is no planning just observation. Although I think everyone would love a job like that. And yes they are to LAZY to do something productive and that insight is from almost every hard working black customer of mine!

Productivity and hard work aren't the same thing, and I don't lend additional credibility to people just because they "work hard." I don't give a shit if you work hard or not. I think people should work as hard as they deem necessary to live the kind of life they want to live, and no harder. As our economy becomes more productive through various forms of innovation, we should be able to work less hard for comparable benefits [[this is why folks in actual third-world countries commonly engage in subsistence farming, which is just about the hardest work imaginable, while that line of work has all but disappeared in more productive industrialized economies like ours). Hard work is a necessary evil, not a moral virtue.