Has anyone else thought of this?
I misread "Burgerbrains" as "Burgerbarians," and I felt like I acquired a totally new term to refer to Americans with.
Well, even though it was just through my mind misreading it, I acquired a totally new term to refer to Americans with!
He's the quintessential burgerland "success" story. Born rich, extracts a fuckton of wealth from the working class, gets to be president (king) of the usa, do a bunch of white collar crime and get a slap on the wrist. Not to mention he's got a cult around him and cults are an american pastime.
Ever since…ehh, occupy I have noticed that the old school somewhat admirable mythos of America has died. It’s no longer the country that prides itself in social mobility, thanks to the pesky civil rights act that means brown people can do it too.
So especially when shit hit the fan during occupy, that’s when I noticed people giving up the ghost. So many rich people are hammering in networking as the only way. I lost count on how many times I have heard “it’s who you know not what you know, bro!”
Shit’s fucked when the number one career advice is to be a nepotism hire.
The recession changed things because thousands of people did what they were told and got screwed for it. It was get good grades in high school -> graduate college -> start at the bottom of a company related to your major -> work your way up and start a family along the way -> retire.
College graduates with honors or degrees that were in "high demand" couldn't find jobs. Companies stopped rewarding loyalty, often using outside hires to avoid giving raises. People who thought they took the right steps had their homes stolen out from under them. People who worked at companies for decades were laid off or lost their pensions. Then the so-called progressives and liberals did fuck all to help anyone but the 1% of the 1%.
Kinda hard to believe in American capitalism when it just destroys every life you know.
Yeah, he's the most American thing happening Americanly in America.
