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That piece of shit owes me five bucks!
If our species had your mindset at large, maybe humanity could have made something of itself.
c'est la vie
Hey at least we have ethical corporations with sane executives sacrificing so much for us as they work with qualified governments to push transparent legal decisions for our well-being. Can you imagine if everything was driven by financial gain and status?
Can you imagine if everything was driven by financial gain and status?
That would be horrible! The innumerable victims that would suffer under such a system would have to rise up and revolt to begin the painful but necessary work of rebuilding an equitable civilization, as such a self-destructive, misery propagating system could never stand for long oppressing so many, right?
Right?!
I think we do, it's just that people who don't have this mindset are more likely to get into power
There seem to be more people out of power interested in blaming powerless suffering populations for their own suffering than recognizing the atrocity and wanting to help.
You show 100 truly random Americans footage of our society's sins in the form of our innumerable tent cities filled with the people, and most of them will chastise those victims of our society for being "lazy" or "drug addicts," as if addiction wasn't a disease often triggered from desparation, or that failing to be a productive little capitalist cog in our owner's profit machine means you deserve to die prematurely of exposure to the elements and ~~police~~ capital defense force brutality.
The answer most Americans have to such things is to complain enough to have those human beings forcibly removed from the sidewalks and underpasses they subsist in to find another, because that average American feels above having to look at them, and is concerned about how those human being's continued existence is diminishing local property values.
The more beaten down, abused, and powerless you become in the US, the less help you will be offered. Wealthy people are thrown free, expensive services and merchandise hard working people could never afford to actually purchase outright, people pour money into a manager's kid's GoFundMe for their soccer league because that "charity" gives pretty feels all around, meanwhile a homeless person is denied a cot at an overfilled shelter because they're an alcoholic and dare to try to sleep out of the rain AND numb their very real physical and emotional pain, for lack of actual, compassionate, patient, funded mental health services. Get the fuck out of here you piece of shit. Why can't you winos just go off and die, amirite?
Woah dude, calm down. Excuse me for wanting to believe people are mostly good.
People are mostly good. Propaganda designed to enforce certain beliefs makes people think those less fortunate are lazy, entitled, and less deserving. It's also human nature to discount any luck in our success stories and attribute them to only/mostly hard work.
I am beginning to doubt this assertion too
I think that's one of the biggest issues, people believing what they want to believe, despite all of us being subject to the same reality.
That said, believe what you like. Sorry for bringing rain to the parade.
when i was at university for computer science it was an extremely competitive environment that i just could not stand - people being smug about exams, gatekeeping proper answers, gatekeeping answering questions or showing actual good code at all because god forbid we copy, we have to reverse engineer everything ourselves! bullshit techbro freaks
I fire developers like this. We code as a team, or you can get out.
I quit cs / ce for this very reason. 10000%
Honestly, I feel like this is the university's fault. Why let in more students than the computer science program handle. For real only going to let only 5% of (already admitted) students into your computer science program?
God I'm in CS rn and I feel you. I try my best to prevent shit like this from happening, like dropping my formula sheets into the CS discords, and helping literally anybody who asks, but I'm just one guy lol.
Where is this from, I love it, and yes I will marry it
Win win
But who will compete to do work, yay!?
I would always say "I win" at the end of every TF2 match. Even if my team lost.
If anyone said something about my team losing, I would just say "Having fun is winning. And boy, did I win."
Will you compete with yourself to seek self-improvement?
Soon he will get sued for anti trust violations
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