[piloto_ciego]

This is a great article, but arguably the world doesn’t have to be this way.

We don’t have to accept this as the status quo. Learning to both realize this that this article is true then reject this as “ok” and acceptable is the next step.

Sure, other people might not care about all these things, but you can make the world less shitty if you care about those things.

[happymellon]

It really does.

How should the world change so that your "thoughts and prayers" make meaningful impact? They are meaningless things that religious people tell themselves make an impact, when it's the people handing out food that stops starvation not "thoughts and prayers".

Why the hell should I hire you when you want to learn Python but haven't done anything, when I can find people who can show they understand the fundamentals by making a hobby project or went to night school?

Why should the pretty girls talk to you just because you were safer than a bear in the woods?

It's exactly the same conversation that keeps coming up. They didn't destroy 3rd spaces so you don't have any friends. You don't go to those 3rd spaces that exist, or your being too lazy to create the 3rd space.

[quectophoton]

> Why the hell should I hire you when you want to learn Python but haven't done anything, when I can find people who can show they understand the fundamentals by making a hobby project or went to night school?

Or, paraphrasing a quote whose source I don't remember: "What's important is not what you can do; it's what you can prove."

So even if you're actually a Python expert, it doesn't matter unless you have something to show for it; cue job interviewers ghosting candidates who don't have projects that are public and open source.

[piloto_ciego]

Did you stop reading after the first sentence then dive into a diatribe?

Considering people as only being valuable if they can do something for tou is something you don’t have to do.

You aren’t going to change all of society, but you can change what you do.

[runjake]

> We don’t have to accept this as the status quo.

I think the challenge here is that we as a society aren't going to reach consensus on this, thereby nullifying the point. As the article mentions, half of the people will take the scene one way, and the other half of people will take it another way.

FWIW, I take it a seemingly opposite way from you, despite not identifying as a "hustler" or "techbro" or even considering myself a "go-getter".

Underneath the societal scaffolds we build on top of it, nature is brutal. It's important to always keep that in mind.

[piloto_ciego]

I don’t have to change society to make the world a better place, though.

Just because someone else doesn’t care if Randy is a good dad or Jane is a pleasant person to interact with doesn’t mean that I’m limited from caring. Life doesn’t have to be transactional, we are encouraged to live that way - but there is no law of nature that says you have to not give a shit about people unless they can do something for you, there’s no law of nature that says you cannot appreciate people’s efforts.

This stuff really isn’t that hard.