If we're supposed to make this a class war thing, how about we talk about the Cornell grad who's set themselves up to get recurring royalties and speaking deals reinvigorating rage against the criminally stupid low-level thieves caught on camera lifting TVs and kitchenware?
God forbid we just say "no, this isn't how a functional society can possibly work."
"The plight of the lesser-estated criminal idiot does sustain me, though I long for his vigor."
To this very moment I can't tell whether the issue taken is with work and trade broadly, or only with work and trade that causes the sort of asset accumulation that lifts peasants out of subsistence farming
Imagine explaining to aliens that your multigenerational positive-sum wealth-generation scheme worked so well that you had to start guillotining the people who ship you same-day hand sanitizer during a pandemic just to feel alive
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I think everyone will find something to dislike in my take on Dylan Mulvaney, which is that there is obviously a desperate cultural thirst for someone, anyone, to just wholeheartedly enjoy being a girl in a way that is politically acceptable — and this is probably a good thing!
I do find it reductive and a little bit embarrassing, but man, the culture we have has got to start somewhere. The idea that there is *anything* good about femininity has been MIA for what, a decade? Longer?
While I'm digging my hole, I think trad culture could probably take a note here because a lot of it does come across as very... Girlboss, But With Apron. At times, it delves into "our way is better because it takes 20x as long and hurts." This is not the way, not always
My mom's home in Oregon is being seized by "friends" who she allowed in a few months ago, who now refuse to leave & have literally stolen keys to her outbuildings. It's impossible to navigate her rights & obligations because local housing lawyers are booked up w similar conflicts
They moved two additional people in; mom can't afford to go anywhere else, so she has four people who live rent free in her house and glower at her as they go to and fro, leaving their dishes for her to clean and taking hour-long showers
You cannot imagine how bad tenant-landlord law is in some of these coastal states
If you think this is an exaggeration, you may not fully grok the scope of this program as it *already* exists after just 5 years commonsense.news/p/scheduled-to…
To be clear, Canada won't allow the first assisted mental illness suicides until next year
To my mind, this is just one segment of a completely unavoidable slippery slope once you eliminate the requirement for terminal illness/foreseeability of death, as Canada has done