Notices by rootfake (rootfake@mastodon.social)

@freemo @aiono @MikeDunnAuthor
I didn't mean you believed in that part, you obviously didn't, It's why I specifically said it *grew out of it*. the modern iteration is about believing, effectively, that hard work brings good fortune, and focusing a person's worth on their employment, it's a pretty common thread throughout most American views on employment. It also tends to come with the whole "people who don't do {job i think is valuable} should have less to motivate them to work harder."

@freemo @aiono @MikeDunnAuthor
Secondly, do you recognize that *someone* still needs to do min wage jobs, and that those people deserve to not be living in squalor? Cause you can't have everyone upskill, there are only so many positions available. Like, if everyone becomes a coder, or a plumber, or an engineer, guess what, those stop being "high skill jobs" (which is a BS term btw, min wage jobs require skills too), and unless we automate them all away, min wage jobs still need doing.

@freemo @aiono @MikeDunnAuthor
okay, so first off, the protestant work ethic is a very specific thing, which both has nothing to do with actual work ethic, and is, at least seemingly anyway, the exact ideology you're espousing. It grew out of the "if you don't work, you don't eat" shit that the early Virginia colonists believed, and is largely why many Americans believe "you'll get ahead through hard work" even though that is *demonstrably false*.

@freemo @MikeDunnAuthor Minimum wage is supposed to be a living wage. Frankly, food and housing should be freely available to all, but at an absolute fucking minimum, a person working full time should be able to afford their own place and decent food, which is completely impossible at min wage in the US right now. Fuck the protestant work ethic and the religious fanatics it rode in on.

@v_claire @tofugolem it's amazing, destroying Elon Musk's testicles with a spinning kick is a wholesome and endearing traditional activity across so many cultures. Truly the unity we all need in these trying times

@roadriverrail @Garwboy
the only "men are from mars, women are from Venus" that I'll accept is "if women are from Venus and men are from mars, that implies at least 6 other local genders and a likely infinite number of exogenders"

@GavinChait @dalias @marshray @cwebber maybe ritualistic or magical thinking? Superstitious programming might be a good term. I generally use "treating $thing like it's a magic spell" to describe this kind of mentality. If they do the right motions and say the right words, surely they'll get the result they want, even if they don't understand why it worked.

@dalias @KydiaMusic @RickiTarr it also doesn't help that their money is half-ass fake anyway. Like, if your money is all in stocks that you can't sell cause it would tank your company, it only exists as long as you never use it. So not only are these the type of horrible monsters who would become billionaires in the first place, they also "only" have the obscene amount of money they can get safely or through loans, the rest is just scorekeeping for the worst people imaginable.

@hey @Janne_O @mekkaokereke yeah, about 30% of America believes that any sort of federal ID is the mark of the beast and will sell their soul to Satan. A very significant portion of the US believes in a literal spooky devil that goes around and does shit.

@Rasp absolutely, one of the ways you know you've gotten decent at cooking is being able to go "whoops guess I'm out of that, oh well, this'll work" and having it still taste good. I tend to only adhere strictly to the recipe the first time I make something new, just to get a feel for what whatever I'm making is "supposed" to taste like, after that I'm probably not even close to the original recipe.

@aulia @thomasfuchs The trick is, votes D or leans D is most of America. The 50/50 both sides shit is an artifact of our broken electoral system, and the whole "land matters more than people, you get less say the more neighbors you have" thing, than it is a political reality. Like the D's are kinda everyone left of hunting the homeless for sport at this point. Biden's biggest problem was he had no draw other than not being Trump, someone with actual excitement behind them is far better off.

@mos_8502 I'm not sure what gender "turned into a mare to give birth to their father's steed" is, but I am damn sure it ain't cishet.

@annecavicchi @saddestrobots lots of them, you have to remember that cops don't just make whatever their listed salary is, they also make overtime and detail rate. Every cop you see directing traffic for road work or events is not an underpaid civil servant, but someone making ~$50 an hour extra on top of their base pay, and lots of those details are just sitting in a car at a certain place all day.