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   Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 01:22:15 JST Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr

   I'm going on a little rant. I see so many of these upper class influencers act like the reason that everyone doesn't have it all is because they just aren't working hard enough. Most people work ridiculously hard just to survive, and they just don't have time to work on their dreams or whatever side hustle they are supposed to be doing too, because Capitalism doesn't see the value in rest. Most of these Influencers are coming from a place of privilege anyway, they aren't doing their own laundry, cleaning their house, doing their bills, fixing their food, caring full time for their children or parents, or the other hundreds of little chores and annoyances that make up every day life. That's a full time job by itself that most people are doing on top of a full or part time job. If most people had that taken off their plate then sure they'd have time to "hustle" and "grind" on some kind of project that was just about their dreams. And it makes us feel guilty that we aren't doing enough, because our house wasn't clean enough, or you didn't get a workout in, or dinner was frozen, or you didn't get to take the kids to wherever. Listen friend, it's ok, you're allowed to order a pizza and veg out in front of a couple of reruns of Castle, or take a couple hours to read and have a cuppa, or scroll Mastodon in the bath. It's good enough to just make it through the day sometimes and you deserve rest and relaxation. Don't let someone who got incredibly lucky tell you otherwise.

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     tuban_muzuru (tuban_muzuru@ohai.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 01:22:12 JST tuban_muzuru

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     @RickiTarr

     Perversely, if you quit condescending to the poor - and just give them money, they will spend it wisely. The poor work really hard. They are not lazy.

     And - get this - you can make this even more efficient. Just pay them a living wage for the hard work they do, give them decent health care, the money flows through the system and the whole society prospers.

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     Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 01:22:14 JST Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr

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     There's also this super weird idea that if you try hard enough you will succeed. Rich people have every advantage, and will still fail spectacularly, even if something actually seemed like a good idea. So much of success is just luck, and being in the right place at the right time.

     Tobias Hellgren repeated this.