I cook at home because of restaurant prices and tip culture. Driving everywhere sucks. Everything feels miles away so good luck walking.

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    Nothing is more privileged than expecting other people to improve your life for you. That’s actually the philosophy of most wealthy people, that everyone else should do shit for them, while they sit around and jerk themselves off about how great they are.

    The irony of this whole discourse is that basically you think everyone should have the privileges of the wealthy, but you also think the wealthy shouldn’t have the privileges they do. And you don’t see the contradiction.

    I wasn’t wealthy. I worked my ass off. I’ve also seen people with way more money than me piss their lives away. Most of the most bitter losers I have ever known had trust funds.

    What you don’t understand is that the difference isn’t money, or privilege. It’s attitude. You want to shit on some hardworking aspring immigrant kid as a privileged twat for achieving their goals, and stupidly assume that the drugged party person somehow should have the same success in life, because nobody is responsible for themselves.

    Or maybe worse, you see people who worked their way out of the working-class drudgery into a secure middle-class or upper-class existence as ‘traitors’. Yeah, my entire family and friend thought I was a traitor too when I was growing up, because I wanted something better than living in a rural backwater place.

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      lol I’m not reading this novel.

      There are millions of people who work shitty factory jobs so we can order our trinkets off Amazon and i care much more about them and their problems than privileged idiots.
      Those people are the ones thay deserve life improvements, not the “grindset” “alpha males” that make the “bootstraps” talking points.

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        And there are millions of immigrants working in farm labor under much worse conditions for musch worse pay, do you feel worse for them?

        From their POV the shitty factor job would be a huge upgrade.

        And for those factory works, being an Amazon picker would be a huge upgrade.

        Your issue is that labor exists, it sounds like.

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          Do you feel worse for them?

          Yes, obviously? What a dumb fucking question.

          Your issue is that labor exists

          ???
          Yeah, I’m done here. lmao