Thread:User talk:Reckless Noise Symphony/Entitlement

Ah, that's it! Remembered now.

Recently there's a guy on DeviantART who was writing a few journal entries about what he does, and while it wasn't major he did put a few sly, and evidently ill-informed, digs at Occupy and all that. It wasn't major enough to warrant a big in-your-face-fuck-you reply, but it did sit uneasily. It was something like "Oh, I'm not like those lazy Occupy twats who think free studio time should be in the constitution, I pay money for what I have and use!" (Pretty fucking irony meter shattering considering this is a guy who pretty much demands his models work TFCD because "they should want to be there, not for the money". Face. Meet. Fucking. Palm).

But digs about people feeling entitled? What the fuck? I'm currently in a writing-up year with no stipend, I work as many teaching hours I can get (which at £14 an hour isn't too be sneezed at but at only 4-5 hours a week it's no better than a minimum wage part time job) my other half is in the best job they can get but that just about covers rent. I'm paying a fuck ton of charges to a bank despite the fact they make billions in profits and pay fuck all tax. All I feel "entitled" to is that I don't fucking pay the council tax, or at least pay a reduced rate, which isn't so much a tax as a fixed charge for the privileged of living in a certain area. Sorry, is this a feeling of entitlement that's so wrong? That we both work pretty hard, I'm working to actually better myself so I can eventually go into a job that pays near enough 4 times what I earned at the peak of my postgraduate studies, and yet shouldn't have to pay a fucking tax because I'm already hand-to-foaming-mouth on ramen, air and baked bean fucking sandwiches? Really, that's the horrid fucking entitlement people feel?!? Shit, I'd hate to actually DEMAND something in return. Fuck these people.