"the reason the (US) government is so corrupt and oppressive is because people are too compliant and complacent and won't fight back! :frothingfash:"
a perfect example of idealist thinking with zero material basis. also, the guy who said this prides himself on being an "anti-authoritarian libertarian" but sided with cops and the state when the 2020 protests happened.
Like clockwork, everyone of the white liberals I know denounce the US government but will piss blood the second they see a trash can get set on fire
I feel that university education, and business school especially, reifies their students’ importance to business, the economy and society-at-large. They basically tell you that you alone will have the skills to organize production almost against the perception of chaotic laborers. They also tell you that economically nearly everything is known and understood and can be controlled by pulling certain levers.
This self importance is reinforced because companies hire and are composed of the same types of people who believe in their overblown causal powers.
Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work? A business big enough that it could be listed on the NASDAQ goes belly up. Disappears. It ceases to exist, without me.
-All the “low-skill” workers propping up the PMC bubble
I was once part of the startup and 'entrepreneur' scene. They say the dumbest shit imaginable. I've been in whole ass meetings where everyone was saying made up bullshit. Self fellating is truly off the charts in those spheres. And I still don't know if most of them are self aware grifters, or actually dumb as shit.
Idk what it is about meetings that makes people say absolutely untrue things; maybe the wrong combination of people produces some absolutely putrid discursive dynamics
Me: :im-vegan:
Mom: I heard the end goal of veganism is that vegans wanna be pure so they can eat each other.
Me: :blocky-wat:
oh... that's not the go...
Excuse me I have some things to delete off my computer.
"University teaches you how to think"
doing tech support for highly educated professionals killed that dead
After explaining to a coworker that Black American English is grammatically different from General American English and not just "worse" or whatever, using the specific example of an experiment which demonstrated that "be Xing" and "is Xing" mean two different things in BAE but not GAE, my coworker paused for about five seconds and said "well it's still bad". This coworker was also incredibly insecure about a ton of things, but what sticks out to me to this day was him telling me that he's in the first percentile of intelligence and that I'm also pretty smart so I must be in the second or third percentile.
him telling me that he’s in the first percentile of intelligence
:michael-laugh:
didn't have the heart to tell him and i also thought it was hilarious he said that in the process of giving me a backhanded compliment
"The government's policy can't be racist as a majority of voters voted for it"
A friend's brother got in to NFTs, has made roughly $200 (as in he dropped $3,000 on several NFTs, some of the less valuable ones he listed for a mark up and other rubes were willing to buy, the rest he is "holding". ) and has started acting like all the other smug internet entrepreneurs. He thinks for some reason that the rest of his NFTs will also sell, despite the fact that the ones he did manage to sell were like $25 a piece that he spent $10-15 on and rubes are more likely to commit to that than a "high end" one he'll list for over $1k that he spent $500 on as if the ROI will carry over.
I don't remember the specifics because both he and I were quite inebriated but I swear he said he showed some of the pictures to his infant niece and she pointed at a specific one and that one "rose" the most in terms of value after being "appraised" and how his niece will be a genius millionaire NFT trader in the future.
He also said NFTs are good for overall health because it takes away anxiety and stress...somehow. I think he may have meant it in a mind over matter thing, believing in it kinda gives you hope that you'll be a rich douchebag? I can't say for certain.
He also thinks they should be exempt from capital gains tax.
I had a guy who got his college degree from the UC system in the 60's and then immediately got a union job right out of the gate tell me college kids today are just entitled.
Met someone who was a Jeb! Guy back in 2019. Said he loved living in Florida because his vote actually mattered and their politicians actually had a chance at the presidency. Thought political dynasties were a good thing because parents could train their kids how to be more effective "leaders and statesmen."
All but begged on his hands and knees for a return to feudalism and hereditary rule.
This one is as common as it is stupid and it goes something like: "I deserve to earn twice as much as the guy doing 'unskilled' service work because unlike him I went to university and worked hard for my degree"
Sure, mind-numbing and backbreaking labour for shit pay is a walk in the park compared to going to school and learning exciting new stuff.
My favourite was hearing some American chud go off in Westminster Abbey about how useless all the people buried there were compared to americans.
Usually I'd be sympathetic to the utility of Lord Nonceringy of Kent, but Direct quote "Who's this Wilburforce guy anyway?"
"Workers don't want to have the trouble of controlling the means of production, they have capitalists for that"
"If you can't pay your debts it's really your own fault unless you work 14 hours a day, seven days a week. You need eight hours sleep and chores, commute, child-bearing etc. can be done in two hours."
“If it’s legal it must be okay.”
This comes up sometimes with a Korean person I know. As soon as I bring up the Japanese colonial period she changes the subject.
