• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Don’t forget pointing at them for the rest of their lives and condemning them for the crime of “making bad decisions” ie trying to better themselves and prepare themselves for a fulfilling vocation that either doesn’t exist or pays poverty wages (teachers, paramedics, counselors, etc, stuff decent societies actually value) in the US, all to drink in that sweet, sweet schadenfreude of the suffering of your fellow citizens.

    The oligarchs used their bully pulpit of all major media that they own to train us to undermine one another, compete against one another, and root against one another so we’d never unite against our common enemy, them. This is merely the result of that, all the peasants blind after stabbing each other’s eyes out, with the owners looking down at their livestock and laughing.

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        1 year ago

        I hope it crashes honestly. Sharp short term pain is a far better than this engineered, perpetual state of tens of millions barely subsisting to meet the growth/metastasis expectations of our plutocrat owner class. It’s never enough for them, and today will look like paradise if they continue to get their way.

        That’s wishful thinking, but make no mistake, this exploitative economy cannot be repaired. It is too corrupted, too controlled by the tiny class of beneficiaries at the top through governmental and regulatory capture. The worst case is that it survives this and survives the climate apocalypse it caused, because that just means generational misery without end.

        I’m sorry you and your family are struggling, it’s wrong, and it speaks ill of me and all my fellow Americans to allow it to continue.

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          “should be” doesn’t account for the realities of the hiring process, the intense credential inflation, or being positioned well enough to take advantage of opportunities when they arise.

          People didn’t go out and get useless degrees, they were trained for fields that were rendered obsolete by the time they graduated and are facing intense competition with absurd requirements.