Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college?
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 month agoas an adult you can choose a job where you don’t have to do that.
If you genuinely believe this (i personally think you’re trolling), then you need to take a step back, look at your situation, and recognize how privileged you are.
A significant amount of problems in the world would be helped by The Privileged recognizing that their life is not representative of the lives of everyone else.
Nothing is more privileged than expecting other people to improve your life for you.
The irony of this whole discourse is that basically you think everyone should have the privileges of the wealthy, but you also think the wealthy shouldn’t have the privileges they do. And you don’t see the contradiction.
I wasn’t wealthy. I worked my ass off. I’ve also seen people with way more money than me piss their lives away. Most of the most bitter losers I have ever known had trust funds.
What you don’t understand is that the difference isn’t money, or privilege. It’s attitude. You want to shit on some hardworking aspring immigrant kid as a privileged twat for achieving their goals, and stupidly assume that the drugged party person somehow should have the same success in life, because nobody is responsible for themselves.
Or maybe worse, you see people who worked their way out of the working-class drudgery into a secure middle-class or upper-class existence as ‘traitors’.
lol I’m not reading this novel.
There are millions of people who work shitty factory jobs so we can order our trinkets off Amazon and i care much more about them and their problems than privileged idiots.
Those people are the ones thay deserve life improvements, not the “grindset” “alpha males” that make the “bootstraps” talking points.
And there are millions of immigrants working in farm labor under much worse conditions for musch worse pay, do you feel worse for them?
From their POV the shitty factor job would be a huge upgrade.
And for those factory works, being an Amazon picker would be a huge upgrade.
Your issue is that labor exists, it sounds like.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That is not a choice that everyone can make.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 month ago
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Many people live in towns with fewer than five companies, with poor internet access. Many people have to keep odd schedules because of family care obligations. Many people are functionally illiterate. Many people have criminal convictions. There are a lot of things that can limit your ability to leave a job you already have.
Many people do accept work conditions worse than they have to, but not every worker is flexible enough to choose their work.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Then they have to move.
0ops@piefed.zip 1 month ago
Tbf, neither is a happy childhood
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, it’s luck all the way down.