Found this on Twitter so idk the reddit link
...why's this a bad life? If this is the kind of life someone wants then what's "dystopian" about it?
Edit: Can teachers in the US live such a carefree life?
Am teacher, had to move away from my students and community cuz I couldn't afford to live there anymore. Free time was spent grading and lesson planning.
Fuck no we don't. I came in at 7 every day to turn on my from-home heaters in the class cuz my classroom didn't have heat, and cuz we were a working class school so students got dropped off hella early from their parents who were on their way to work. And I stayed until 6pm cuz we were in a bad neighborhood and some kids got picked up by their parents coming home from work and I didn't feel right telling those kids to go wait on the street. This is a community where houses sell for $600k+ and 90% of the students are on free/reduced lunch
Nope teachers get paid for the school day +30ish minutes before and after students arrive/leave. Any work done outside the school is usually unpaid. And school boards still complain that paid prep periods shouldn't be allowed, basically guaranteeing teachers will have to work unpaid hours.
Can you imagine not getting into political arguments online and calling someone a slur? These are difficult things they don't talk about in communism because they are brain dead because of communism
"what a creppy dystopia China is."
god forbid people have a good public sector job and a comfortable life lmao. that shit sounds like a DREAM to me. I wish I could just grill and get on with life because the state provides for me
Also having enough money that you aren't checking it all the time, in capitalism, that's success. But in communism, that's dystopia!
[that one Parenti or whoever quote]
Jeff Bezos: Lol I don't know how much money I have, I stopped counting after 500 million. Reddit: :so-true: So wholesome!
Chinese Aunt: The government takes care of me, I don't have to worry about counting money. Reddit: :wojak-nooo: fucking dystopia XINNY THE POOH
Incredible how so many people assume that when the government provides for its people it only does so because of some sinister ulterior motive
But NOT providing, that can only be for the greater good!
Depends on who's doing it, they do it because of neglect and the party elites hoarding all the resources. We just have a great spirit of self-sufficiency!
In case of the US-goverment you can almost guarantee there is always some sinister ulterior motive. With China demonized like it is now, do you think it will cross a single libs mind that China does politics for its people on occasion just for the sake of it?
The average liberal, as every human, tends to project their worldview and way of thinking onto everything. Doing something good without getting somethingvin return does not compute for them. People with power using said power to help powerless does not compute.
In a libs brain, charity can only be done by individual philantropy, politicians only do things to get reelected and the goverment doing stuff they personally dislike is bad, because it interferes with the free markets.
It is a terribly sad thing that one half of political America is living in fantasy land, while the other half are barely functioning as humans anymore, with everything that is seen as humanities greatest virtues stripped away.
It is a terribly sad thing that one half of political America is living in fantasy land, while the other half are barely functioning as humans anymore, with everything that is seen as humanities greatest virtues stripped away.
Exactly what the ruling class has been trying to make happen for 50+ years :)
me on the phone with the energy company rn cuz my social security number isn't eligible for an energy account??: 👁👄👁
i wish it were that simpleLooking at credit scores and being like: "move" and Experian says: "maybe next year, your bank account isn't 4 years old."
Paying everything on time for years and getting it to go up 100 points, then forgetting one payment and it drops 150.
Shit I cannot make it move up by paying shit or anything else. It literally went up by 1 last month, the first change to it in 4 years. I have student loans I pay, and in that time I finished paying a car loan then sold the car and didn't buy another, moved, got an apartment for the first time since I used to live on campus, switched banks, and have had a ton of stuff that should significantly impact the score in different phases. But none of that has made one iota of change, then last month, after six months of no major changes, it goes up, but only by one?
Have you checked your report? Sometimes you just need to open more accounts.
A good trick is to open like 20 credit cards and lock the card number and throw them in a drawer. That way no one can actually charge anything to them if the number gets leaked and you get the appearance of like $20,000 in un-utilized credit.
The whole system is fucked and it's so insanely obtuse. Like getting a credit check can make your score drop by a point. You can usually get a service through your bank that lets you keep up to date on it for free. There are also like 5 different scoring systems. One actually reflects payments made on past due accounts as long as you pay them with the original creditor and not collections.
The older ones just have a 7 year lock on your score if you get a major derogatory. Sometimes you can get places by calling and yelling at them or just disputing everything and seeing which ones disappear (sometimes if the amounts low enough, they'll just abandon it of you dispute).
Honestly part of it might be because I changed my name... In like 2016 and apparently they have not updated my info even tho I sent it to them. You'd think something called TransUnion would be used to the concepts of adults getting legal name changes :trans-undertale:
Sorry bro you got the wrong number assigned to you at birth. Hope you didn't need to like heat and or cool your house during these alternating hot and cold flashes.
I was sitting here like "damn I want to go to there"
and then I scrolled to "what a creepy dystopia" and fucking snorted
so there's no point being informed because discussion is kinda pointless/useless
yeah because the american government listens sooo much more to the people howling online. meanwhile china's out here proactively tackling issues before they become a major problem in people's lives, shits so crazy to imagine these days no wonder americans can't believe it
Chinese Person: Likes their government, doesn’t have to worry about where their rent/food/healthcare money is going to come from, and can spend their free time as they see fit.
Reddit: “WHAT A NIGHTMARISH DYSTOPIA”
I wasn't sure how this was all bad until I remembered the American mindset. They have this ridiculous fear of "big government" ruling over them and making them mindless slaves. Their devotion to "freedom" is so strong that they'd live a miserable life being ruled by corporations as long as the government stays away.
Does this kind of thinking permeate other anglo countries? Is it a protestant thing?
American, and to some degree other Anglo freedom, is very much based in the freedom to not be beholden to other people. Like the ideal American freedom is not having to depend on anyone for anything and being able to just up and leave at the drop of a hat. The fact that this is literally impossible is irrelevant. So from this perspective you are more free by being dependent on unaccountable corporations that you COULD cut ties with, than with a accountable democratic government you cannot escape. Yes I know it is perverse but it is really deeply ingrained in Americans, not JUST white ones either; it has the deepest purchase among white Americans because yeah... that whole settler colonialism thing.
The really ridiculous thing is that an American who makes a sufficient amount can live this way as well (probably minus the provided lunches). As long as everything is set up through autopay and you make more than you generally spend, you don't need to keep a close eye on your account. Even savings and investments can be automated. The poster replying is claiming china is a horrifying dystopia for providing its public sector workers the stability to not have to micromanage their finances.
Never mind that the majority of Americans don't really do much thinking about politics.
Like this life is identical to what one could have as a PMC making like $75k+ (give or take depending on city) and living reasonably within those means, and not giving a shit about politics.
Never mind that the majority of Americans don’t really do much thinking about politics.
Most people don't think about politics in the USA because they know their opinion doesn't matter, that the ruling class, capitalism, is going to keep doing whatever it wants. It's the reason why people don't vote. I'd rather be at home playing video games or watching TV.
Very true. To Western Liberals, voting one handful of times a decade and parliamentary fetishism are the highest expressions of democracy a country can have.
I’m genuinely confused. Which part here is bad?
right? like I'm not trying to be contrarian here but this is kinda the dream life here. They admit everything is being taken care of by the government and that there isn't much to worry about and then frame it as a bad thing.
Bill Clinton sweating nervously while prison laborers take care of his governor’s mansion
not thinking about politics
I interpret this to mean 'I bring up all the hot button talking points that western media constantly drills into my brain about China, and my Aunt had no idea what the fuck I was even talking about.'
how the fuck is that a bad thing? playing games and doing tiktok all day is also what americans do they just don't have a condo given to them and free meals given to them lol
a profound amount of my headspace is spent making sure i am generating the most equity i can out of my salary (or, put another way, avoiding forking over money to tricky assholes), because if i just relaxed, took fun vacations regularly, and didn't give a fuck about my money, it wouldn't be long before i was fucked.... and that's assuming i am not going to be blindsided with some Exceptionally American catastrophe, like a serious disease and being too sick to advocate for myself with my insurance company, getting hit by an uninsured motorist while walking, or getting sprayed with gunfire by the local police extrajudicially executing someone in the streets for minor property crime.
i know people who make three times what i make and have insane amounts of credit card debt (getting nailed for like 20% APR), because they aren't laser-focused on minding their money. because the way everything is set up here is to distract and catch people unaware so they, the "clever entrepreneur" can take a bite out of their ass while they walk by. the united states is just a giant used car dealership.
Creepy dystopia? Mfer what is wrong with these clowns. It sounds like heaven to me.
In communist China, teachers can't afford condos and must do demeaning labor in order to fill the stopgaps in money because oligarchs find their contribution to the country to be insufficient for food, medicine, and shelter.
oh ok so i dont have to deal with bureaucracy, everything just logically falls into place? sounds great for anxiety
