The American Dream
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Care to elaborate on your understanding and reality of how capitalism functions?
The whole point of capitalism is voluntary monarchy. Where peasants have to waste their time doing random things to extract productivity from other peasants for the benefit of the select few. And when things go bad for the business, guess who is not getting made redundant?
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The whole point of capitalism is voluntary monarchy. Where peasants have to waste their time doing random things to extract productivity from other peasants for the benefit of the select few. And when things go bad for the business, guess who is not getting made redundant?
who doesn’t get made redundant?
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by an alarm clock,
Sounds like a personal choice. Im up before 630 every day without an alarm clock. Try going to bed earlier?
leap out of bed,
Or just, get out of bed. Like every person on the planet.
dress,
Would you rather be nude?
force-feed,
You mean eat? Somebody forcing you? Youre bitching about breakfast?
shit, piss, brush teeth and hair,
If pooping/peeing are upsetting to you, you have bigger issues.
and fight traffic to get to a place where
Why fight the traffic? You are the traffic. Fighting it is a personal choice.
essentially you made lots of money for somebody else
Your company is successful, is that a problem? You're getting paid too, right?
and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?
Who's asking/telling you how to feel about it?
Dude needs therapy
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I have never been more motivated by the complete absence of a social safety-net, than each day I have spent unemployed.
As Americans, perhaps we behave this way largely to do normalization and indoctrination. And maybe some are tacitly aware of the fragility of this arrangement. But for those of us that have stared into the financial and classist chasm that sits beneath us all, it vastly exceeds any unease you might feel from not keeping up with your peers.
My state has stripped unemployment down to 12 weeks, after that went by after my layoff at Christmas, I got so desperate and depressed and a little bit crazy. As the day is ticked closer to my first missed mortgage payment and car payment, And the thought of homelessness for me and my animals became a sobering reality, I started taking every interview I could possibly find, no preparation, just winging it until something worked.
During that whole process, I saw what the endgame is, we are slaves, but there is no slave master anymore, we do that part ourselves to avoid dying on the street.
So I am very motivated to start my own niche company and get the fuck away from this whole system at this point. Especially since I will have to work until I die, 401ks have all been cashed out during crises.
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"I am outraged by the society not supporting my lifestyle of doing nothing but scrolling TikTok all day."
Truly, Nazism in its purest form. We must rebel against such oppression.
Nazism is when you... surf TikTok?
This is why Democrats lost the last election. Liberals are absolutely brain poisoned.
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Nazism is when you... surf TikTok?
This is why Democrats lost the last election. Liberals are absolutely brain poisoned.
Liberals are the worst people to ever walk this earth. Not only they have complete contempt for tradition but also they cannot see anything outside their own egos
I even prefer god damn marxists Leninists to the liberals because even though they are grossly incompetent and wrong at least are brave enough to acknowledge the reality. Liberals are just huge pussies
And have you seen how smug they are? God, what a bunch of elitist fetishists.
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by an alarm clock,
Sounds like a personal choice. Im up before 630 every day without an alarm clock. Try going to bed earlier?
leap out of bed,
Or just, get out of bed. Like every person on the planet.
dress,
Would you rather be nude?
force-feed,
You mean eat? Somebody forcing you? Youre bitching about breakfast?
shit, piss, brush teeth and hair,
If pooping/peeing are upsetting to you, you have bigger issues.
and fight traffic to get to a place where
Why fight the traffic? You are the traffic. Fighting it is a personal choice.
essentially you made lots of money for somebody else
Your company is successful, is that a problem? You're getting paid too, right?
and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?
Who's asking/telling you how to feel about it?
Dude needs therapy
Y'all are missing the forrest for the trees
God forbid someone add a bit of literary sugar to their argument, else they be picked apart by pedants.
Your company is successful, is that a problem? You're getting paid too, right?
Not getting paid commensurate to your contribution to the success of the company
Who's asking/telling you how to feel about it?
The news, society at large, people like you online posting replies like this very one
Dude needs therapy
Too bad it's unaffordable. Maybe you need to look at the state of society
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6:30 am? In my city, the streets are already packed with working class people at 6:00 am.
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Y'all are missing the forrest for the trees
God forbid someone add a bit of literary sugar to their argument, else they be picked apart by pedants.
Your company is successful, is that a problem? You're getting paid too, right?
Not getting paid commensurate to your contribution to the success of the company
Who's asking/telling you how to feel about it?
The news, society at large, people like you online posting replies like this very one
Dude needs therapy
Too bad it's unaffordable. Maybe you need to look at the state of society
Not getting paid commensurate to your contribution to the success of the company
He doesn't mention how much he is being paid. His complaint is that someone else is making lots of money.
The news, society at large, people like you online posting replies like this very one
I didn't say he should be grateful, or how he should feel. I read the news, live in society, can't recall ever hearing that I should be grateful for my job. You?
Too bad it's unaffordable. Maybe you need to look at the state of society
You think that's the problem here? He couldn't afford some help for whatever is going on with him? Or (since you charged me with being part of the problem), could his problems be exacerbated by folks like you, commiserating, raging against the machine of such horrors as waking up, eating breakfast, having a job.
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who doesn’t get made redundant?
People making company driving decisions, aka CEOs
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6:30 am? In my city, the streets are already packed with working class people at 6:00 am.
Starting work at 6am? Luxury! In my day we started our day's work the day before, and didn't finish until two days after!
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Hmmmm. Sounds like something UBI could solve.
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This isn't a fucking meme. It's a great quote, but doesn't belong here.
Language changes. "Meme" used to mean an idea that has taken hold and become part of culture. Now it's any composition of images and/or words posted online.
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Language changes. "Meme" used to mean an idea that has taken hold and become part of culture. Now it's any composition of images and/or words posted online.
Yeah, maybe. It certainly is a tragedy. I miss it when memes were just dumb shit which a person with an inane, absurdist sense of humor could appreciate. Politics are everywhere now.
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Hmmmm. Sounds like something UBI could solve.
Except there are a lot of people who believe that the homelessness and suffering is natural, correct, and deserved.
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Not getting paid commensurate to your contribution to the success of the company
He doesn't mention how much he is being paid. His complaint is that someone else is making lots of money.
The news, society at large, people like you online posting replies like this very one
I didn't say he should be grateful, or how he should feel. I read the news, live in society, can't recall ever hearing that I should be grateful for my job. You?
Too bad it's unaffordable. Maybe you need to look at the state of society
You think that's the problem here? He couldn't afford some help for whatever is going on with him? Or (since you charged me with being part of the problem), could his problems be exacerbated by folks like you, commiserating, raging against the machine of such horrors as waking up, eating breakfast, having a job.
You're reply is disingenuous in the extreme, because nobody is this subtext illeteriate.
His complaint is that someone else is making lots of money.
He said he is making lots of money for someone else. He is making the money, therefore it is his money, not the money if the other person. It's like the "taxation is theft" people are unable to apply the same logic on the owners of the boots they lick.
I didn't say he should be grateful
You absolutely said he should be grateful for his job, you just didn't use those words. You mocked him for complaining about his job. Those two things are a distinction without meaning difference.
This messaging is all over the media. If you're trying to say it isn't then you're either lying or you're tragically media illeteriate.You think that's the problem here
You're the one complaining about his mental health.
But no you're right, it's people like me online in 2025 who affected the mental health of the author of the [checks notes] 1975 book, causing him to use [gasp in horror] a literary flourish. Great job there, detective, you cracked the case!
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Starting work at 6am? Luxury! In my day we started our day's work the day before, and didn't finish until two days after!
Sarcasm is kind of offensive in some situations. My point is there are people who start their working hours at 7:00 am, but there are cities so big and chaotic that is not rare people need over an hour to get to their workplaces. Millions of people can't wake up as late as 6:30 am. It's a privilege.
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People making company driving decisions, aka CEOs
ceos lose their jobs all the time
This year has seen significant changes in CEO turnover. In the first quarter alone of 2024, outplacement and career transitioning firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported that 622 chief executives announced their resignations. This represents a 50% increase compared to the first quarter of 2023, which was already a record year for CEO exits.
The surge in departures seen earlier this year can be attributed to the evolving business landscape, retirement of Baby Boomers and increased pressure on CEOs to navigate complex issues, including inflation, supply chain disruptions, and environmental, social and governance concerns.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2024/08/19/ceos-facing-job-insecurity-like-workers/
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Liberals are the worst people to ever walk this earth. Not only they have complete contempt for tradition but also they cannot see anything outside their own egos
I even prefer god damn marxists Leninists to the liberals because even though they are grossly incompetent and wrong at least are brave enough to acknowledge the reality. Liberals are just huge pussies
And have you seen how smug they are? God, what a bunch of elitist fetishists.
they have complete contempt for tradition
Lolz. Lmao even.
The only thing Dems seem capable of fighting to protect is the filibuster.
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You're reply is disingenuous in the extreme, because nobody is this subtext illeteriate.
His complaint is that someone else is making lots of money.
He said he is making lots of money for someone else. He is making the money, therefore it is his money, not the money if the other person. It's like the "taxation is theft" people are unable to apply the same logic on the owners of the boots they lick.
I didn't say he should be grateful
You absolutely said he should be grateful for his job, you just didn't use those words. You mocked him for complaining about his job. Those two things are a distinction without meaning difference.
This messaging is all over the media. If you're trying to say it isn't then you're either lying or you're tragically media illeteriate.You think that's the problem here
You're the one complaining about his mental health.
But no you're right, it's people like me online in 2025 who affected the mental health of the author of the [checks notes] 1975 book, causing him to use [gasp in horror] a literary flourish. Great job there, detective, you cracked the case!
Thank god you didn't embarrass yourself at all!He said he is making lots of money for someone else. He is making the money, therefore it is his money, not the money if the other person. It's like the "taxation is theft" people are unable to apply the same logic on the owners of the boots they lick.
I don't understand. You don't believe in hiring, paying wages? Like if you hire me to help you build a website, i should keep the profits of what you sell? Or, more directly, if you later sell the website, that money is mine?
I was questioning all his complaints, including having to shit and piss, and said that indicates bigger problems and needs therapy. You hear mocking and "you should be grateful"? Disingenuous in the extreme, nobody is this subtext delusional!
The message is all over the media that I should be grateful, im sorry I literally can't think of a time I came across that. I hear people suggesting gratitude practice as a way of feeling joy, or maybe would expect "you should feel grateful" at church or some religious context, but, I dunno, maybe im very selective about the media i consume?
