tralfamidorgooglycr
>> > >>>And by the way, I CAN do and HAVE done EXACTLY what you're
>doing,
>> > so your assumption is wrong. I made a fair amount of $$$, back in
>the
>> > day--but ultimately, I realized it was an empty, pointless
>existence.
>> > I contributed nothing--ABSOLUTELY NOTHING--to the world or to my
>own
>> > well-being. By contrast, any "REAL" job, no matter how humble,
>> > contributes SOMETHING to society.
mickeycrimm responded:
>> You've reformed, therefore, everyone else should reform too.
>>
>> I quit working for a living when I figured out I didn't have to
>work 40
>> hours a week to be broke.
tralfamidorgooglycr
>>>>Don't put words in my mouth. I (unlike yourself) haven't told
>anyone what they SHOULD or SHOULDN'T be doing. Nor did I say that I
>had, or that you should, "reform". I merely addressed (I repeat this
>since memory skills do not seem to be a strong part of your cognitive
>set) your objection to my implied remark that VP advantage gambling
>wasn't a "real job". And BTW, I stand by that remark.
You're just being dishonest. The emphatic way you compared
professional gambling to a "real job" unmistakably implied that it's
better to have a "real job" than to be a professional gambler. Would
you say, with a straight face, that you meant no value judgment when
you wrote that the life of a professional gambler "was an empty,
pointless existence?" If you don't believe that contributing to
society is better than not contributing to society, why did you use it
as a criterion for comparing the two ways of life?
But I agree with you that it's not a "real job." I've struggled with
the morality of being a professional gambler, primarily due to the
fact that it doesn't provide anyone with what they'd willingly pay
for, but there are 2 sides to the coin. A "real job" can also be
characterized as doing others' bidding for money what one wouldn't do
for free. I call that "prostitution.
forewent a career because I was unwilling to "play the game" that
those who have a "real job" must play. I still don't know what the
ideal is, but I love the line of Michael's in "The Godfather, Part 3"
about the higher up he went in the "legitimate" world, the more
corrupt it got.
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