If certain reports about him wanting to end slavery are true, then Eli Whitney inventing the cotton gin. Going by this theory, Whitney hoped that, since the gin drastically reduced the amount of labor needed to process cotton, then people would use slave labor less. Instead, though, cotton producers simply used more slaves to make even more money (thus, in turn, assisting in the establishment of “King Cotton”).
Depression is a cycle of good intentions, clumsy execution and an unnecessarily massive feeling of defeat each time. If i start a small, simple project, looking for a little boost and it doesn’t go well, my mood goes back two steps from where it already was. To top that off, getting mad at myself for dwelling on a defeat only compounds the frustration. Depression is like starting from hell and trying to get to earth base camp.
I, also, had to look up the origin of this phrase, because I find it a little confusing. It should be more along the lines of; the road to hell is paved with inaction. A person can act with good intentions and fail, but the original saying is more like; the path to hell is easy. Which, I take, to mean the path of least resistance leads to hell. Which makes a lot more sense.
Most of my uncle’s staff used to be ex felons and there’s at least one more that he still has working for him and 3 were fired a few months ago because they stole from him and almost jeopardized his business, my business, and my home. He helped them all out many times, even financially, and they turned around and stabbed him in the back. One of them I considered my friend.
Communism.
In Canada we had this COVID-19 relief program called CERB. It gives you 2000$ a month if you meet certain requirements. One of the requirements is you must make under 1k during the 1 month period.
Anyway I had a job at school that pays my full tuition directly as a “scholarship”, so it doesn’t count as income, and get paid 300$ a month which does count as income. With my other job I make 500$ a month so I would still qualify for CERB. However my boss at my non-school job handed out bonuses for working during covid and mine totaled 300$. I had already applied for CERB so I had to pay back the money I had just recieved.
Basically instead of making just under 3k that month (almost all of which was going to paying my loans), I was only making 1.1k. rip.