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Mid twenties here, same situation. My bank closed my accounts lol

This mindset isn’t really conducive to meeting your needs.

Marx and Engels predicted that economies would become dominated by rentiers

It’s essentially this “conundrum”:

Work somewhere for the next two years and be able to lead what would’ve been middle class life 20 years ago. But your actions will be destructive.

Or decline to do that and try to get by living a less comfortable life which destroys less in the end.

I think the choice is clear. Other people have loved and just because you don’t know them doesn’t mean it’s more “moral” to hurt them, which is what I am getting at when saying that one’s actions are harmful.

madlad

I don’t know. There’re limits to what can be considered an acceptable hustle imo. I get the whole American thing about not judging what someone works. but you gotta cut it at elbit systems or ICE.

I am not even an ML. So you can actually go fuck yourself with this dishonest attempt at a character assassination. “I’m glad my parents didn’t give a shit about me.” is still an insane thing to say.

I mean you don’t. If anon were to go to the psychologist, the psychologist would tell him that he has significant mental issues. A disability if you will. That is a fact.

Why you preach this pulling yourself up the bootstraps mentality is beyond me. Completely antithetical to what the vast majority of disabled people need to hear.

I’m afraid you don’t understand what it means to be disabled. Disability is when people stop being able to function in daily life. As far as anon is concerned, this probably happened right when he got his HS diploma. Anon is exhibiting severe social dysfunction which is likely aggravated by C-PTSD, Autism, or a schizoform disorder.

I don’t think you are considering how people are interdependent. Let’s assume someone abandons their child, let’s also forget anon in the post here for the sake of simplicity, it signals to the child that they are on their own and that they can make it on their own. This is a falsification of how things work in real life. If you now have a bunch of people who think that they are the masters of their story, you get essentially what’s been happening since the capitalist revolutions, the subjectivity of, for example, Americans. And that becomes toxic at some point because it’s all about intentionally blinding yourself in regards to the context that things happen in, people start being unable to put themselves in the shoes of others, they can’t deal with topics that in the most literal sense concern the environment. Where it gets proper mentally ill is when people internalise as having been in their interest, or as the guy who I’m replying to would put it “I’m glad my parents didn’t give a shit about me.”

A lot of it is because people take reality for granted and to arrive at the whys is difficult because there exists a whole industry that legitimises the present state of things. Think of Fox news, or the Washington Post, or the Guardian – who would rather want more competent people in charge of an inherently antirationalist system than to fully overcome it. As more and more people are immiserated they will gain the knowledge of the absurd contradictions that have been considered normal and desire to supersede their masters. So in this culture there is a fragment of overcoming the metastability of infinite growth and so on.

not right now, anon will be fucked, since the economy is fucked

Yeah, but that is the reality. You can have your hypothetical grabby industries all you want, if they don’t exist and don’t provide what you claim they provide, which is a life, than you are talking about a fantasy. Plus the point about disabilities is not one where variety matters, how many disabilities there are, what matters is that people have those disabilities and the fact that very often people do have those disabilities.

I am going to be rude and say that this mindset is completely mentally ill.

Some people have disabilities, they might not be visible. Truth is even they have needs and to say “sink or swim” reeks of cynicism and plain hatred for humans and closing one’s eyes to the human condition. You say that he should just go to work. As if people exist in a vacuum and can apply for jobs and get them. It’s clear that he has issues, guy has not been able to work. You can’t seriously believe that the system will want to employ him.

Yes, right on. You won’t stop them by voting.

I wouldn’t deny the damage caused by chatbot use, nor would I deny there being a culture of yes-men. These things are symptoms though, not causes. The question I think is important is “why are people this way?” and I don’t believe it can really be sufficiently answered by considering individual psychology or looking at small scale workplace dynamics.

The US government, federal and local, is much better at unifying data streams at this point time than it ever was. Flock came to fill the hole. Of course you’re going to get yes-men when such a big opportunity presents itself.

Arms manufacturing is also deeply unpopular. Arms manufacturers know this. They still do what they are doing fully aware about every implication, no culture of yes men needed in my opinion.

the people

Who exactly is “the people”? What constitutes “the people”? Aren’t the bosses part of “the people”?

the government

Are they not the government?

Arrogance has little to do with making these strategic considerations. If anything arrogance is a strategy that comes from dealing with things like backlash etc. The cause is not arrogant people, or people lacking self awareness because of arrogance. It’s simple economics in a way.

Yes. I think it’s dangerous to say “they are just crazy”