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OdiousOutlaw wrote

This work shit got old real fuckin' fast.

I miss having more than a few precious hours of time a day, goddamnit.

The worst part is that my family members keep telling me how proud or happy they they are that I have a job and whenever I gripe about it, they say some shit like "well, that's part of being an adult". Like, thanks for making life and my future seem so impossibly bleak despite knowing about my suicidal tendencies, guys; go fuck yourselves.

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OdiousOutlaw wrote

Ever have someone tell you that you should be thankful after complaining about your job?

No, but I have been lectured about "investing" and "making your money work for you", though.

That or they brag about how they worked like 16 hrs days, as if that's a good thing somehow.

Reminds me of when kids compare how late they stayed up.

I hate the struggle/grind/self-made culture; it's made up of only insufferable people.

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lettuceLeafer wrote

No, but I have been lectured about "investing" and "making your money work for you", though

I hate the everything about this phrasing. It's a microcasm if living in a world where almost everyone is far to cowardly to say it like it is.

Like I'm probably the only person on this website who has advocated traditional investment. It makes me sick how almost everyone is far to scared to admit why the traditional NASDAQ / index funds are so profitable. It's mostly profiting off war, slavery, polluting the planet, taking advantage of imperialism, gaining government welfare through lobbying and making software so governments can spy on civilians with no oversight.

It's profiting through violence. It's not work or making your money work. It's just paying people to steal for u or pay someone to do abhorrent shit for u.

God I can't stand people who refuse to state what they do or advocate for and hide behind euphemism

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OdiousOutlaw wrote (edited )

Yeah, your small comfort purchases usually don't take up much from your paycheck; lower-class folk save and scrimp more than people with larger pools of disposable income. I get shit for enjoying video games and not making a career out of it because "doing what you love" means turning a passion or a hobby into another soulless transaction/commodity.

If I don't buy lunch out and save $5 every time I do it, I'm gonna end up with $120 at the end of the year. People blow that on one week's worth of groceries.

If it were that easy, poverty would be eliminated. What's that? People get rich not through exploitation but through hard work, smart spending, and merit? Why aren't you rich then, huh? Why the fuck am I even listening to you, you fucking chump; you're literally in the same goddamned house that I'm in.

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lettuceLeafer wrote (edited )

This coupled with the stupid coffee speech people love to give may be the worst thing on planet earth

In fairness for a large portion of people in developed countries are in bad situations financially bc they just spend fuck tons of money of frivolous shit. Like increases in income just increase how much the spend. It's really common statistically and people around me in the US at least.

It's not a good solution on a systemic level but for many individuals it's real good advice. Tho if you are doing it to people who are poor, not asking for advice and or not frivolous spenders u r being a total prick.

Edit: downvoters use ur words.

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OdiousOutlaw wrote

if you are doing it to people who are poor, not asking for advice and or not frivolous spenders u r being a total prick.

I didn't downvote you, because I'm super inconsistent about clicking good arrow and bad arrow, but you're being downvoted for pretty much doing this.

annikastheory is venting about people trying to micromanage their income by determining what is and what isn't "a wasteful purchase" under the guise of financial advice and responding with "well, they might have a point in other situations" makes you look like an ass because it's an unsolicited criticism that didn't really need to be said.

I've nothing to say about your actual point as to how valid this "advice" is, because I don't have those statistics and am not interested in looking them up.

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lettuceLeafer wrote

Was I criticizing?

I just said how I felt about the issue. The conclusion of that was that I completely agree with annikas that the person was being rude to them. I'm not sure how I could be criticizing when my comment was in complete agreement with annikas.

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OdiousOutlaw wrote

It didn't come across that way.

There's also the fact that victim blaming those facing financial misfortune is a popular capitalist talking point and that anti-capitalists really don't like hearing it or any talk about how it can be a valid criticism on a few instances.

It's not a good solution on a systemic level but for many individuals it's real good advice.

This is not one of those individual cases, so the fact that you'd justify the talking point comes across as needlessly contrarian at best.

Finally, there's the matter of the fact that picking out individual cases to refute critiques/complaints about systemic issues makes a lot of people with a radical political bent very angry and, regardless of your intentions, your response comes a little too close to that rhetoric. Criticism was a poor word choice.

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lettuceLeafer wrote

Okay, I'll keep people's emotional response to this issue in mind. I appreciate it as it is useful.

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bomprimo wrote

In fairness for a large portion of people in developed countries are in bad situations financially bc they just spend fuck tons of money of frivolous shit. Like increases in income just increase how much the spend. It's really common statistically and people around me in the US at least.

Source?

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lettuceLeafer wrote

The problem is that usually with the whole, "don't spend money on coffee" speech they aren't really giving the finance 101 advice they appear to be giving. They aren't really saying, "don't spend money on frivolous shit". What their really saying is this: first if your poor its always your fault, second if your poor you should never buy anything that isn't strictly necessary (such as coffee or fast food or really anything enjoyable whatsoever) to do so is a moral failing, third you could be rich if you stopped wasting your money and instead made that money work for you.

Even if this was good advice, and even if a person meant well the third point makes it absurd because for most people simply not buying coffee and investing that money, even if it may improve their situation, won't improve their situation enough to matter. The real purpose of this advice is to distract poor people from a real systemic issue and to push the blame onto the poor person. For boomers in particular this advice is a way to explain why they are so rich and millenials (who are often the target of this advice) aren't. This also ties a lot into ways some conservatives view coffee as well

Yep, I agree completely.

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emoticons wrote

also Am disliked always insufferable is the good word for it lol

Thank you for every opportunity!
Workship is my family!
I am grateful for my job!
Your a true leader!

it can hard to not okay when rest, working has say to you are to work all second of you life is not yours and You lived before day, before week or before year. :(

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OdiousOutlaw wrote

I still have nightmares about going to highschool, not sure if anyone else does.

Afterschool programs are even worse. School food (if any at all), forced "fun", and most of the other kids that I've met there were total assholes.

An inevitable outcome of low income homes with poor transportation alternatives and schools being too far away, I guess.

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kin wrote

I too have recurrent dreams(nightmares?) about classrooms and school environment. Sometimes I dream am failing again some semester, or the general anxiety of failing and waiting years to finish my penitence there. (I almost failed my last year at high school and I dropped out college twice bc I couldn't keep up with working and studying, in a country where we don't pay tuitions but we don't receive scholarship or money)

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