• @stanka@lemmy.ml
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    -42 months ago

    How many hours a week working on fundamental science, art, entertainment, medicine, engineering, etc. If you drink from the fountain of modern society, you get the benefits and you share the burden of the costs.

    Life is unfair. There are no free rides, nor should there be.

    • @hydroptic
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      2 months ago

      Life is unfair. There are no free rides, nor should there be.

      And this attitude is exactly why life is unfair. Doesn’t have to be like this, there’s other ways of organizing societies than “fuck you, I got mine” and not just hypothetically; welfare systems are a thing in many countries you know. Or at least were until relatively recently, thanks to people who think like you.

      • @stanka@lemmy.ml
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        -32 months ago

        Sorry to be the bearer of bad news my dude. I didnt make it this way. I assure you what I think doesn’t amount to squat.

        Sitting around and wishing for the good old days is just an insane notion of looking at the past with zero appreciation for the magic of the modern world.

        I wish the world was fair, truly. It sucks, but realism feels like a better place to hang my hat.

        • @hydroptic
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          32 months ago

          Yes, better just lie down and take it rather than aspire for something better

              • @stanka@lemmy.ml
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                12 months ago

                You saw through my clever charade!?

                Look, I hate the man as much as anyone. It is just that I got a job and a mortgage and a family and I woke up one morning old and the man.

                Quoth the poet Ben Folds, “everybody know it sucks to grow up”

    • Armok: God of Blood
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      32 months ago

      I got a master’s of science with a 4.0 GPA and no one will give me a job after months. I did my part. Fuck society.

      • @stanka@lemmy.ml
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        -12 months ago

        Yeah, the big lie. Do what we tell you and it will all work out. Nope. Work + Luck. Society isn’t out to get you, it is just ignorant of you.

        • Armok: God of Blood
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          22 months ago

          I had to go to school at 17. My entire childhood I was told that my life would be over if I didn’t and I would be set if I did. Couldn’t get a job after I finished undergrad, but I still needed to put food on my table. I could get federal loans if I went back to school, so I did.

          • @stanka@lemmy.ml
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            12 months ago

            Another shit part is for some people it does work, and they never have an inkling that there is another side. So they sit there all “bootstraps” this and “self made” that. Their parents fed them the lie because they didn’t know any better or worse, did. But it all worked out and now they are conservative.

            Look, you are intelligent and able to communicate clearly. That is more than a great many adults I run into. You can find your way in this world, but it is going to be your way and not your parent’s.