1. “Son, I want you to know the English language well enough, so that you can tell, on your own, when a politician, in all his words, is flat out lying to your face.”
2. “Son, I want you to know how to cook your own meals, in your own kitchen, so’s you don’t run out your money eating at the diner, all the time.”
3. “With your 40 hours a week, keep a roof over your head, the lights in the kitchen on, the food on the table, and clothes on your back, before you buy a magazine or a paperback book.”
3. “With your 40 hours a week, keep a roof over your head, the lights in the kitchen on, the food on the table, and clothes on your back, before you buy a magazine or a paperback book.”
Didn’t come from my father, but a good piece of advice I got was: “The first 40 hours you work every week pays the bills. It’s the hours you work after 40 that builds wealth.”
2. “Son, I want you to know how to cook your own meals, in your own kitchen, so’s you don’t run out your money eating at the diner, all the time.”
This truism has evolved to the following absurdity...
That the indolent are "entitled," as a "right" to a living wage : defined as the absolute right to live comfortably with a minimum of effort, sufficient to live as comfortably as anyone else who might have invested anywhere from 2 to 12 years to learn an exceptional useful skill, and the ability to support an unlimited number of children- for example serving fast food, or using a cash register, without having the ability to "make change", without one.
3. “With your 40 hours a week, keep a roof over your head, the lights in the kitchen on, the food on the table, and clothes on your back, before you buy a magazine or a paperback book.”
The only advice that reveals the character flaw of the advice giver. The belittling of literacy as a noble human trait. Impossible to explain this item as rational.