If you ever in a million years dare to compare simply working for a living to slavery, you have demonstrated profound lack of understanding of our present situation. you are not trapped in some demonic capitalist system, you are actually among the most fortunate human beings ever to live. the norm for many centuries was subsistence farming, where all hours with sunlight are devoted to maintenance of crops and animals just to get enough calories to survive. we on the other hand enjoy such general wealth that many of us have still never done any job into our twenties or even later, allowing us time to get educations on advanced topics, time and options to shape our lives and become fully realized .. and STILL people complain as if some unique kind of HARM has been done to them. the lack of perspective is truly mindboggling
If you ever in a million years dare to compare simply working for a living to slavery...
if you are a young person in america feeling like life has done you wrong, i hope you can go spend time in somewhere like rural areas of thailand, vietnam, cambodia, burma, etc. spend the whole day making bamboo traps for eels and placing them out in the fields in the hopes of having something to eat and come back and try to say again how it's just SO AWFUL to have to wash dishes or make sandwiches or help people try on shoes or whatever other entry-level job, all the while completely surrounded with other opportunities to make money, unlike the farmers out in the rural areas i described .. omg, that kind of attitude is not just wrong, it's like completely backward in every way, profoundly misguided. there is nothing whatsoever shameful about doing any kind of useful work
For me, it's the McChicken. The best fast food sandwich. I even ask for extra McChicken sauce packets and the staff is so friendly and more than willing to oblige.
One time I asked for McChicken sauce packets and they gave me three. I said, "Wow, three for free!" and the nice friendly McDonald's worker laughed and said, "I'm going to call you 3-for-free!".
Now the staff greets me with "hey it's 3-for-free!" and ALWAYS give me three packets. It's such a fun and cool atmosphere at my local McDonald's restaurant, I go there at least 3 times a week for lunch and a large iced coffee with milk instead of cream, 1-2 times for breakfast on the weekend, and maybe once for dinner when I'm in a rush but want a great meal that is affordable, fast, and can match my daily nutritional needs.
I even dip my fries in McChicken sauce, it's delicious! What a great restaurant.
i want people to get the understanding that for almost all of history, humans had no options but to spend all day trying to live.
for some people it is a huge deal when a factory is built close enough to their village. for the first time ever in their family, they have the option to do something other than subsistence farming.
the mentality on /biz and places like that is pure mental poison
people who live better than EMPERORS of the past, convincing themselves they've got it bad, that they are being raped by an evil system. profound loser mentality
i mean they are truly feeling uncomfortable, probably due to lack of purpose, but that is the nature of life to feel at least vaguely uncomfortable.
to be born in an area surrounded, completely SATURATED with opportunity, is an incomparable gift.
the use of "cucking", "cuck", etc is also really inappropriate. people say it because they have the impression they are doing the work, but the boss is getting paid the most, ie they are working for someone else rather than themselves. it makes sense at first glance. but in the broader perspective it's stupid because the people talking like that have the same opportunities to be the boss that the boss does, but they do not want to do all the things required of the boss.
cope. have you ever been hunting or fishing user? its fucking exhilarating. I also plant a garden every summer
the boss is getting up at 4am and the boss is done when the work is done, not at a certain time of the clock. the boss is driving people to and from work whose cars are having problems. the boss made a big investment to even start the business. the people using the term cuck could do those things, but don't want to, are not willing to. they put blame on something external when the limiting factor is themselves, as with most things in life
it's extremely perverse because some people act as if they are being harmed by their boss when in fact their boss is providing an opportunity they would otherwise not have.
I felt like I wasted a million years watching one of the dullest franchises in the history of movie franchises. Each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.
Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.
>a-at least the books were good though r-right
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."
I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.
in my mind the problem is not so much some supposed fundamental unfairness of having to work, but just that the dollar has been inflated so much, and prices are inefficiency are up so much, that running around hustling on simple jobs that need to be done is not nearly as viable as it used to be.
i know what im eating tonight
well, i guess i think it comes down to, people are never wrong about suffering. if someone tells you they are suffering, it's probably true, that's very easy and reasonable to believe. but they are almost certainly wrong about what exactly the problem is -- they should probably NOT be believed about that, at least not at first, because their suffering is actually impairing their judgement and making them want there to be a known enemy, a bad guy to be opposed and defeated. but the truth is there usually is no bad guy, which is very disturbing.
a lot of young people go through a time when they want to REDO THE SYSTEM!!! not realizing that we got here step by step doing things that made sense.
it may be very hard for some people to accept that these systems we create to help us eventually get sick with something similar to a societal version of cancer despite good-hearted people making fairly smart choices all along the way.
there's a tendency to think that you yourself would have done better stuff, to think badly of other people of the past when in fact they might have been more intelligent and more able than oneself.
i guess my summary would be they're totally right that life is hard and full of suffering, and that each time has its own unique kinds of suffering .. but don't take that too far and start feeling persecuted in the midst of unprecedented fortune and opportunity
lord of the rings was god-tier you fucking faggot. the great gatsby was fucking terrible and so was the picture of dorian gray, grapes of wrath, a brave new world and charlottes web. I am also pissed that no vonnegut was put on there, you fucking heathen
oscar wilde is trash
>then this guy said this
>then this guy said that
kys
Medieval serfs worked fewer hours than modern wage cucks do you faggot ass Boomer.
sage
Just lol if you actually believe this. Work a job and get back to me.
Look mom! I posted it again!
Your list is shite.
Since you revive this thread, i'll post the last post of mine since it was archived about 2 days ago:
>Capitalism says profit is the incentive for taking risk. A company takes risk, pays the cost of materials and employee labor for making a product, and tries to sell it. All new discovery (of products, etc.) requires risk, or otherwise you are just making the same stuff over and over again. Profit is the motive for that discovery and the compensation for that risk.
I just thought about it, and the origin of profit justified by risk isn't what happened in the paleolithic era, and with current hunter gatherers in current primitive tribes.
Indeed, in the primitive tribes, the men hunters take most of the risks. Children, women, elders stay in the village when a hunt occurs. A hunter can be killed by a big game.
However, when a hunter kill the game, he is obliged to share with the tribe. He can never keep the game for himself. This has been documented.
So, in capitalism, when the owners of the means of production take the "lion share", the profits, it is not what is supposed to happen in humans (homo sapiens) community.
>So, in capitalism, when the owners of the means of production take the "lion share", the profits, it is not what is supposed to happen in humans (homo sapiens) community.
Those were small communities. People knew each other well. It doesn't work in a large organization where people have little or no social and emotional connection with each other.
Communists attempted at this via the form of communes under various communist regimes. What ended up happening was the same pyramid structure of power and privilege as the same system they were trying to replace, only it was much worse. The people running the communes took an even greater lion's share. You can't do anything privately without it being taken away in whole.
You keep posting this shit everyday as if posting it more and more will magically make your view point valid. it's not. we are in fact trapped in a nightmare system and the wealth inequality is getting worse. job oppourtunities are vanishing. this system is built upon the flawed assumption of infinite growth on a planet finite in size. and don't even start rambling off about mars or asteroids. please spare yourself the embarrasement.
saved your list, but lolz at the fucking great noobsy, literally one of the faggotest books ever.
It's as if the sense of achievement was relative and a social construct, wow
If you're in the lowest decile in your country, you're poor, regardless of if you make ten times what poor people made 500 years ago or in some bumfuck nowhere