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by moomoo11 1241 days ago
Have you ever worked a manual labor job? I have so I’m just curious. I get your sentiment but I live in the real world.

The world is run by privileged people. The older I’ve gotten the more I’ve realized that the best way to survive is to literally hack the system for myself because A) politicians don’t work for me even if they say they do (maybe it I had a billy) and B) I don’t have time to wait

I was born in a corrupt third world country where human rights might as well be a joke. A miracle (don’t really know what else considering my dad doesn’t have a degree) got us out of there and I got to come to the USA. It’s way better here but the problem and blessing here is capitalism means that many people need to stay “cheap” and down (but not totally destitute like in my 3rd world) in order to maintain the system so the politicians (bought by rich fucks) can keep making us feel good and fuck us right before we get the carrot.

That being said I still find it hard to sympathize with people who don’t work. We don’t live in communism where we just get paid to pretend we work. The best thing we can do is make enough money through the system that exists here and those of us who are neutral good (like me) will start companies and hire people to give them a better chance.

Don’t wait on google. Don’t wait on politicians. If you’re worth a damn you’ll hack the system and make it work for you TODAY. You know you don’t need to have a VC funded juggernaut to make a difference right?