Also, it's possible to be priveliged and also understand and sympathize with the problems of other people.
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I got my B.S. years early with minimal debt. Working salaried in tech since I was 18. Since I can't buy a home I know shit is royally fucked and no I will not settle for simply scrambling to the top of my peers. Let's topple the tower.
Right? I don’t make a lot but I’m lucky to have support and I do(normally) make more than twice minimum wage. Whenever someone says that I should change jobs if I want more money I seriously consider pushing them infront of traffic.
My last bosses said, and I quote, “we are not responsible for paying for your lifestyle” in response to a Google Doc I shared showing how the salary they offer for my office job was grossly underpaying me and I was being quite generous. It’s like, what the fuck do they think a salary is? It’s literally the monetary compensation that someone gets which provides the lifestyle that we expect a given job should support.
All these bosses have been told how special they are for way too long and they seem to think that we actually enjoy working for them so much that our salaries are more like a nice bonus.
Something about all the "evil boss" movies of the 80s and 90s really stuck with that generation. It's like they picked out the lowest of lows from the movie and said "you know what as long as I'm better than that I'm a good boss and people should be happy to work for me".
Hell so many of them saw that and went “ooh maybe I can be like that someday!”
But yea, relativistic morality is a fuckin’ cancer and I hate it and the braindead people who suck so bad at life they need to find excuses like that for their shitty behaviour.
Bullshit years?
Also, it’s possible to be privileged and have your life wrecked by this system.
Just fucking imagine what it’s like to be underprivileged and never have a chance in the first place.
I'd wager many of us have been both multiple times, over our lives without even realizing it.
Actually understanding this?, now that's the first step to truly understand.
I’ve been in both positions – dirt poor and couldn’t get care, and also decently well-off (not rich) and still couldn’t get care, even with good insurance.
Now I’m destitute, partly because of health care debt, and am struggling to get any care at all. I seriously feel like the system actively wants me to die.
“It’s not the class you were born into, it’s the class you’re willing to fight for.”
If he was poor the narrative would be he’s just jealous and should have got a job and worked his way up.
Exactly, when people at the top fight for people at the bottom, you need to show your support Because that person will not be allowed to remain at the top
Yep, I'm reminded of Nina van Zandt Spies an heiress who gave it up to marry one of the haymarket martyrs. Sure of the Haymarket widows she's no Lucy Parsons, but America couldn't handle the one of her, much less a second.
We don't have a great many stories of people betraying the upper class for the lower, but all who do are welcome among us far more than those who betray our class for the upper are among them.
interesting!
Yeah, the whole of the Haymarket affair is fascinating. It was a quick blurb in my history classes in school, but the rest of the world celebrates labor day on its anniversary.
Lucy Parsons is definitely the most interesting person involved. A freewoman who married a former confederate soldier (who would die for his role at Haymarket) and became a militant activist for anarchism and communism. She was a voice for returning fire on the rich and given her life story even liberals find it hard to blame her for it
It's also possible to be in a stereotypical privileged position while still suffering from terrible things such as health issues that are not covered and are costly.
Especially in America, where access to healthcare is gatekept by a special class of people whose permission you need to obtain healthcare.
Imagine if you needed a prescription for new clothes, and couldn’t buy new clothes until someone else signed a sheet of paper saying you were allowed to buy a pair of jeans.
That’s not in any way a free market.
Evidently you don't feel as strongly as he did to throw his privileged life away.
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Well, I'm increasingly beginning to think that that guy isn't even the Adjuster himself, and we shouldn't treat him like he is guilty. (of doing such a wonderful thing)
He may end up not being the shooter but he has a history of posting things that align with the ideology
But like... Don't we all?
I know I do. Speaking of, can't wait for billionaires to get the De Witt Brothers treatment.
Wait, so his suffering is less valid?
The hell?
He's literally extremely privileged and still suffered from a for profit system, so yes people with less means have it worse.
He did suffer, but he never became homeless, lived in fear day to day, or had to ration life-saving medications like insulin.
Yeah :D
Apropos of nothing, have you seen the prices of handguns these days? Even the parts for a 3D printed one can run you $900, easy. Fucking ridiculous out here.
You can get a used glock for ~$400 USD.
Do you ship to the UK. /s
Yet getting hernia corrected is $16,000. $900 barely pays the rent for a month anywhere in the country.
When the cost of living is so high the cost of dying needs to be levied on the ones responsible.
Doesn’t every county Texas hand one out to you as a coming of age gift when you turn 18? Or was the cartoon I watched as a kid lying.
I believe you can get a free gun with food stamps in Alaska for hunting
Give a man food and he'll have food for one day. Give a man a gun and he can feed himself his whole life.
Holy shit really? I could get a pistol for 400€. Is there some kind of monopoly stuff going on that tries to reserve weapons for the rich?
Edit: did a quick search and found one a lightly used one for 130€
I have no idea what the guy is talking about. Hi-points are under like 200$, and thats a complete pistol. It ain't luxurious but it shoots.
More heads need to roll. To the guillotine!
Let them eat cake!
- Insurance companies
~~Let them eat~~ cake denied!
- Insurance companies
FTFY
Society: UHC, the people are rioting because they have no Bread!
UHC:
- Bread DENYed by policy
- Insured encourage to purpose other nutritional alternatives, like Cake.
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I thought he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania?
Edit: I'm a moron and it's literally an Ivy League school. TIL
Basically Ivy league
Isn't UPenn actually just Ivy League?
Yeah turns out I'm dumb
Yes, according to my Kagi search.
I thought he had an airpod on.
I'm pissed and I don't even have a cursor on my ear!
Watch this will be peek fashion soon.
He is our leader in this revolution
leaders lead, symbols inspire.
Luigi is a symbol.
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