Comments by "TIKhistory" (@TheImperatorKnight) on "Peter Schiff" channel.

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  2.  @dbssanchez11  "Do YOU understand what hard work is? lol because hard work does not equal more money, otherwise single mothers working 3 jobs and working 24/7 raising kids to make ends meet would be otherworldly rich." To say that "working hard doesn't equal more money" is only partly true. You have to work hard producing goods and services that people actually want, and doing so will result in more money (profit). If you produce things that people don't want (like, say, mud) then you'll not be able to sell those things, and thus you will make a loss. This is good for the overall society because people who aren't making much money selling a particular good or service are being told by the economy that what they're doing isn't in demand and that they should stop doing that and go do something that is profitable. As far as the single mother argument goes - raising kids doesn't produce a product or service you can sell to others. It's not an economic activity. Raising kids is a consumption of resources until those kids reach the working age. They are an economic loss in the short term, which is why people only really care about their own kids and not other people's kids (other people's kids are a burden of resources that would be better going to your own kids). Until they become old enough to work, they're only an investment in the future and a drain on economic resources. They're not an economic product, and thus do not contribute to the economy. So to say that single mothers are "working hard" to raise kids and thus deserve more money isn't true because they're working hard on consuming resources rather than offering a product or service for others to purchase. Also I don't know one single mother who has more than one job, and even then they only have part time jobs, and even then they complain about the hours and the workload. In fact, I distinctly remember that all the single mothers I worked with in my previous retail job did 10am to 2pm (maybe 3pm) shifts because they had to drop kids off and pick them up from school. They also didn't work weekends. And they received subsidies from the State. Meanwhile the non-single-mothers worked all hours, with myself often coming in at 5am or earlier, or working late or overnight, yet getting paid the same hourly rate (because that's "fair", apparently). And to top it off, the single mothers would then complain they weren't getting as many hours as the "men" (even though there were plenty of non-single-mothers females who worked all hours, it was only the "men" who were at fault somehow). They limited the time they could work, then complained that they weren't getting the same number of hours as people who were willing and able to put the work in and work as many hours as they could get. So certainly, in my experience at least, I don't agree that single mothers are working as hard economically as they themselves think they are. And I don't know any that are working three jobs. None of them are "strong" nor "independent" as they make themselves out to be. It's not "strong" nor "independent" to cash checks handed to you by the State (itself which robbed the money from the taxpayers).
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