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My plan is to crumble with it.
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Pretty telling that so many comments here immediately blame the proletariat. The fucking power of propaganda. Christ, we're so fucked.
If everyone else wasn't so lazy and evil, I could retire sooner and more comfortably.
I'm uniquely underpaid, overworked, and unlucky. No one else is like me. No one will ever sympathize with me. So its just me against the world.
The only thing I can do to change my lot in life is to throw in harder with a high profile ultra-wealthy industrial captain in the eternal war against foreigners, corporate rivals, and the unemployed.
Yes, yes, blame the other crabs in the bucket. That's the way to the top, for sure.
Also, the "woe is poor me & my wholly unique predicament" trope is yet another spoonful of bullshit you've been fed. We're all underpaid, overworked, and unlucky — and no one is different in that. Begin the sympathizing with yourself, and see we're all against the fucking world out here.
You do you, at the end of the day, though. The only thing at stake is your happiness.
Do you need it pointing out that the reply was sarcasm?
I'm told its undetectable for Americans, which I guess makes sense if you grow up in a country where about 1/3 of the population is genuinely insane.
As an American, I noticed the sarcasm just because lemmy has a very anticapitalist user base, but on any other platform I'd be genuinely concerned that it was written by one of the 50% of my country's population that actually believes that ...