<p>This isn’t one from CB or anything. My english teacher made up this prompt for the in class essay i wrote yesterday and i drew a blank for examples & ended up BSing personal experiences.</p>
<p>the prompt is:
What do you think of the viewpoint that paid jobs are bad for you?</p>
<p>anyone have any ideas?</p>
<p>I’ll probably end up saying paid jobs aren’t “bad” per se, and using Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad as an example of how he hugely benefited from working for free.
How there’s no pressure in working for free and you’re likely to see new “opportunities” easily.
I guess :/</p>
<p>As my thesis, I would fully disagree and say that paying jobs are good for you, as they develop your ability to take care of yourself independently and not burden anyone else. Atlas Shrugged and Dagny v. James Taggart is almost too obvious an example for illustrating the superiority of “movers” v. “leeches” in terms of dependence; then, a personal experience comes; finally, a counterpoint using The Great Gatsby - that Gatsby worked and was independent and yet it wasn’t good for him - can be made and then refuted by pointing out that people like Nick Carraway or Jay Gatsby who actually work(ed) turn out to be better people than people who have never had to take a paid job (Tom & Daisy Buchanans).</p>
<p>It is not an original way to approach such a question but I daresay it would work better than blanking out while arguing for the opposite side :)</p>
<p>Regardless of what your personal views about this or any essay prompt you should always take the side where you have at least two (I recommend three) concrete examples.</p>
<p>On one side of the spectrum you can argue that paid jobs are bad for you because they lead to people like Bernard “Bernie” L. Madoff stealing $50 billion. On the other end of the spectrum you can argue that paid jobs are good for you because they incentive us to work harder in school / at our job / etc.</p>
<p>I think the underlying thought in this question is capitalism vs. socialism. Socialists view the world as where everyone should work for the common good not a pay check. Whereas capitalists believe in free market economies where people have the ability to pick and choose how much money they can make.</p>