QUOTE(Si @ 8 Jan 2010, 10:20 AM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>As for being lucky or fortunate to being a good earner, slaving through school, 2 degrees, another year of LPC, 2 years training on rubbish money meant that I didnt start earning properly until I was 26, I worked and continue to work damned hard, just to see half of it taken away to be squandered on keeping the workshy and the elderly that made no provision for their dotage in SKY TV and special needs teachers!
Just to be devils advocate though, I did no very little work at school, or college, or at university yet have come out with a nice 'BA Hons Cantab' at the end of my name.
I
do consider myself quite fortunate to be in this position as in my case it's clearly more to do with the luck of the genetic draw and my formative upbringing with my parents.....
It's not a straight equivalence between working hard and doing well.
There are people out there who, no matter how hard they try, will always struggle to learn things and progress.
Conversely, there will always be people who do well without having to try at all.
PS I'm not saying that fines should
or shouldn't be means tested. Haven't made my mind up yet