Handwriting General

The purpose of American schools is to make one ready for the job market, not to impart culture. It's how we became the country with the highest GDP in the world.

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>highest GDP in the world

>super rich industrials get more rich and the rest don't even get a chance to catch up

Sounds great. Fucking idiot.

The median income in the US is higher than most of Europe. America isn't just richer as a whole.

The precatiate is growing and rising like everywhere in the 'western world' and the US is de facto a political oligarchi and the super rich have been burning the bridges for the rest for years now. The GDP doesn't really reflect the social and economic reality of a country anymore as it did in the 60s and 70s and neither does the median income.

*precariat

Good post. I don't think conservatives fully realize that it's the current year.

>implying what I say isn't correct.

Your retarded image reply isn't an argument.

Actually it's problematically the opposite, American music and hollywood film are the dominant form of global culture today. Very inhibiting to the development of a global class consciousness :(

fuck you eurosnob

Its legible, although your bl in defensible could be read as ld and in recollect the ol looks like d. Google the palmer method of business writing if you want to develop a quick, comfortable, and legible hand-writing script. The key in this method is the static nature of the fingers and hand. Letters are drawn by the shoulder and elbow, so there is no fatiguing and more consistant and larger forms emerge.

Personally, I use a cheap Pilot fountain pen and some korean kuyoko notebooks. A fountain pen is also less fatiguing to the hand since no pressure whatsoever is required to write.

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dumb fags no, but few can that have abandoned their senses/pride in their knowledge of their first language.

American here, grew up in the 90's.
They told us we would absolutely need to know cursive in like the 1st/2nd grade, then I never heard anyone say anything about it again beyond "I guess it helps notetaking?"
For most papers I was required to print it out of a computer.
I took up journal writing by hand and now I see why they phased it out. It makes your writing better and increases your chromozone variance level, dangerous to the elders of zion who rule this world.

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>fixed pie-illusion

dumb socialist detected

OP this is Mine....

It was still taught when I was in elementary but I hardly ever use it. I mean, it's rare that I need to write anything by hand.

gee why dont they teach fountain pen caligraphy anymore geez its 1900 for fucks sakes

I like your handwriting, user. I think It's rather clean, yet elegant enough and quite easy to decipher.

Ausbro. My hand writing is barely legible and writing for more than 10 minutes hurts my hand.

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don't be insecure it really tickled my noggin

>implying financial insecurity isn't the driving force in most people's life in the US.
>Implying that isn't because a structure not fit for our modern needs is kept in place by a financially overly powerful minority by now.
>implying social welfare isn't absolutely necessary if you don't want the mob take their agents to government and fuck everything up.

Fucking retard.

Yet 18th by GDP per capita, and 43rd by Gini index, conveniently ranked between Peru and Cameroon. An average citizen is poorer and less educated than in most places. I wonder what the children of those who matter and weigh learn in private schools.

pic related is me r8

Yeah kiddo, life just isn't possible without the welfare state.

It is. But it is a pretty horrific and unstable life if you don't live like an outsider and anarchist anyway. Society goes to shit if the masses and their needs aren't heard and met. Just look around you.

>But it is a pretty horrific and unstable life

This is so wrong. Without the welfare state, people will become reliant on each other again. People, having to pay less taxes, will offer more to charities. Americans are more charitable than Canadians...Maybe it's because American families aren't being taxed 45% of their income. Not only that, the incentive to be productive, and innovative, disappears. Sorry, but the alleged security of the welfare state is not worth being "half a slave, once-removed" under extreme taxation.

>Should we look to kings and princes to put right the inequalities between rich and poor? Should we require soldiers to come and seize the rich person's gold and distribute it among his destitute neighbors? Should we beg the emperor to impose a tax on the rich so great that it reduces them to the level of the poor and then to share the proceeds of that tax among everyone? Equality imposed by force would achieve nothing, and do much harm.

>Those who combined both cruel hearts and sharp minds would soon find ways of making themselves rich again. Worse still, the rich whose gold was taken away would feel bitter and resentful; while the poor who received the gold form the hands of soldiers would feel no gratitude, because no generosity would have prompted the gift. Far from bringing moral benefit to society, it would actually do moral harm. Material justice cannot be accomplished by compulsion, a change of heart will not follow. The only way to achieve true justice is to change people's hearts first - and then they will joyfully share their wealth.
------St. John Chrysostom

Do you seriously believe in this development on charity?

>The only way to achieve true justice is to change people's hearts first - and then they will joyfully share their wealth.
Are you living in a fairy tale, user? We're not living in the year 300 BC. Do you want me to quote Machiavelli?

The world is changing and in new times new classes emerge and realize themselves. It is either seeing and finally listening to the peoples' needs or investing in armored vehicles and gated communities for a ruling minority inside a shitshow.

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I've always felt that this view is an incredibly naive prescriptivist approach to how the world actually functions. The welfare state is an unfair pejorative for a system that offers better opportunities for those disadvantaged by circumstances that they cannot control

Financial instability plagues the majority of American society right now. Most people are one or two medical emergencies from bankruptcy.

Having support to weather the storm helps society in general. I know the idea of the ubermensch rising above those weaker in society is appealing as a concept (not referring to Nietszche). But a healthy, wealthy populace is important for progress and the 'welfare state' helps sustain that.

>tfw handwriting of a 4 year old w/ parkinsons

I deserve nothing but death

So you're in 9th grade?

That story is absolute shit I'm cringing

Holy fuck is this a joke? Underage b8

It was a paragraph I came up with off the top of my head..I guess I wasn't born with those good writing genetics

>the incentive to be productive, and innovative, disappears.

I'm not even the guy you are arguing with, but this has been debunked and proven wrong many times by now. This is from a study on unconditional basic income in India over the last 6 years:

>"The most striking thing which we hadn't actually anticipated is that the emancipatory effect was greater than the monetary effect. It enabled people to have a sense of control. They pooled some of the money to pay down their debts; they increased decisions on escaping from debt bondage. The women developed their own capacity to make their own decision about their own lives. The general tenor of all those communities has been remarkably positive"

sputniknews.com/business/201701051049274425-india-universal-basic-income/

Yes -- compare American and Canadian charity.

You are free to quote whoever you want if you think it's pertinent to the discussion.

You're basically saying "it's the current year"

A safety net for the unfortunate and disadvantaged does not need to be provided for by government.

>You're basically saying "it's the current year"
Are you retarded? Are you really that naive that you unironically quoted a magistrate from 300 BC to answer world economic questions of today?
Meme all you want, but you are bringing nothing of note to the table.

This is mine OP, I use a fountain pen and I bind my own notebooks :)

I didn't quote him to answer any economic question. The point is that there is also a moral element to consider when talking about the welfare state which is often ignored.