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The best way to fight the system is to be jobless. Imagine if no one had a job? Bye bye capitalism. The end. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
“I don’t want to work. I want to live in the woods and grow my own food and get back to nature.” - City Hippie
Just skimmed through the thread and its filled with strawmen or plain misunderstanding.
Nobody is criticizing someone for having rich parents, even if said parents got that money from exploitation, heck even slavery.
No the criticism is that someone rich, thanks to their parents rather than their own effort, is promoting a way to reach such a position in life by replicating a path that is not real. If you have rich parents and you promote “making stuff” or writing a book, which you actually did yet never meaningfully contributing to the lifestyle you are promoting, you are basically dishonest.
TL;DR: nobody cares about that specific person or that situation, we are just tired of lies sold for profit.
Reminds me of an aside from this blog article that has been living in my head for a few months — To Save the Arts we must Kill the Artist — that goes like:
the artist as the bourgeois failson
And other such points about the intersections of privilege, wealth, etc, and art.
Hahahaha this is too good
Can’t afford to have good vibes. Money brings you happiness and prettier partners.
and prettier partners
Fucking trust fund babies.
Tbh, that’s not true. If your standards are low enough, you can get by with very little money.
When I was at university (10 years ago) I could get by with 5-10h of work per week. I had a single-room flat and no car, a 10yo laptop, a cheapo second-hand phone and ate cheap food. The total amount of assistance that I received from my parents were birthday and christmas presents with a total worth of €700 over 5 years.
Now I have a larger flat, a wife, two kids and a car. Now I need much more money.
Of course, neither the cost nor the lifestyle are comparable.
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Neither nor.
I paid €350 for my flat and made €25/h doing maths tutoring. I had a monthly budget of €800 in 2015 and that was enough.
I never received unemployment benefits and why on earth would someone invest in a random student?
I think you just got extremely lucky, and it’s not exactly transferrable to most others especially today.
I don’t think that surviving on €800/month is extremely lucky. I know quite a few other people who also did that. I also know quite a few other people who just stayed with their parents during university so they didn’t have to work at all.
Being able to live on 800€ a month isn’t that hard if you’re in a lower COL area, like a smaller town.
What’s hard is making those 800€ while working 10 hours a week. I checked the tutoring prices in an area like that (my small central European hometown) and the only people charging 20+ eur per hour were people with decades of experience.
It’s not that difficult. First, you need to start with the right subjects: Maths with English on the side. Maths alone is usually enough, but English is a good side for slow times of the year.
Then get into an agency that does tutoring at home and employs you as self employed. The don’t pay that much, but their clients pay a lot. In my area, they paid €19 for 1.5h to the tutors, but the clients had to pay €65.
So after the pre-paid package that they booked was done, I took them on as direct clients for €40-50/1.5h. Together with the travel time (I used public transport and had the flatrate subscription) that came out at roughly €20/h. And since I was a student at the time, I used the travel time to study, so it wasn’t really wasted time either.
(The big advantage of these agencies is that their high prices prefilter the clients, so that only wealthy people use these services, and if they got a decent tutor for their kids, they are willing to pay a lot for that. Also, it’s super easy to get into these agencies. They are always looking for tutors and their tutor screening is incredibly easy to pass. If you managed to finish school, you’ll have no trouble getting into one of these agencies.)
When I was a bit futher into my university course, I switched over to freelancing as a software developer and made €40/h, working from home.
Yeah, I guess if you live in a place where people can afford 65 eur per hour for tutoring but also has 800 eur studios it works.
im so happy that i was blessed with parents who never struggled with money. nothing wrong with that. and yea, im hella vibing in life jobless <3
let’s hope nobody has to depend on you one day
lets hope you stop being a meanie beanie -_-
Found the trust fund trustafarian 😂
i have no idea what that means but ok
You’ll be able to go through life saying that a lot. Eventually, the only thing you’ll fear is when that might end.
Congratulations on your detachment from reality.
fuck reality
Fuck leeches.
mald harder ✨
Nah, I’m not mad, just disappointed. You’re disappointing.
For sure, and props to you for being open about that—something this post is arguing for IRL (trustafarians tend to conceal their privilege)
thank you, im always open about my privilege. but theres always gonna be wage cucks who shit on people like me lmao
Try not calling them ‘wage cucks’ and you may get shat on less.
nah they can shit on me all they want, it makes me laugh
Why are you even here?
just to suffer
I guess. I’m trying to imagine a world where I could consider that suffering. :p
Don’t you know you need self value from being a slave. Chase fake paper money like a good gerbil. Our slave morality tells us you are not a good person like us unless you do what we do.
im a bad gerbil~
Exactly, but if you misuse Nietzsche to justify being a neet who does nothing all day then you’ve escaped the matrix practically
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You guys don’t have a welfare system?
Not enough to vibe with
There are people vibing on fiends couches going from person to person. They they don’t look like that.
This is, apparently, Shanin Blake. This is a picture from 2017.
Arguably, there’s a lot to criticize her about, but her leading a carefree lifestyle and finding success in publicizing it doesn’t seem like one.
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Arguably, there’s a lot to criticize her about, but her leading a carefree lifestyle and finding success in publicizing it doesn’t seem like one.
Wanna bet that whoever latches onto the image to jam their lazy uninformed truthiness (as Stephen Colbert coined the term) narrative into, uses the same kind of lazy uninformed truthiness narrative
bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe MuH pURiTeH
to not vote and empower the goose-stepping fascist goons into the federal government and into their communities.Trustafarian is an absolutely brilliant insult.
why would you insult somebody for being middle-class
Trust fund isn’t middle class.
why would you insult somebody for having a trust fund
You’re on ML, rabidly hating the rich should be your thing.
mm… well I hate billionaires for being exploitative and shit. And I’d like to see their money shared around. But a trust fund is something that one is given by the circumstances of their birth, not something one needs to be an exploitative asshole for. Perhaps their parents are exploitative assholes, sure, but why would I hate somebody just for being born into privilege?
That’s far too reasonable a viewpoint, you’ll get banned from your instance talking like that.
Has anyone seen real dreadlocks before? These are obviously not real. Maybe she’s not trying to pass them off as real, idk.
I’m not sure I get why you responded to my comment.
Cuz you made me look her up.
Okay. I was confused because I never mentioned anything about dreadlocks.
That chick is annoying. I think I’ve blocked five or six video different clone accounts to stop getting her videos on the reels feed.
As cringe as this gal is (I don’t watch her videos either) I can stomach her easier than the 77 Million people who voted for Trump. I’d much rather focus on fixing whatever is wrong with them over this neo-hippie.
Wait, this is a specific person? I assumed OP was a stock photo. Is her shtick just being the 2020s version of a hippie?
Shanin Blake. She has crappy rap about shrooms and acid. She gets worse and worse as time goes by. She will have blasted face tats and be washed up in no time.
Look at that, she’s already washed up
I’m curious too!
Literally thought this was a meme about the travel influencers and those people who attend every concert without ever holding down a job.
It’s so weird seeing people making poor interpretations of another ethnicity’s culture their entire identity. I wonder if there are weirdos in India rocking lederhosen or milkmaid outfits at random music festivals and ranting to strangers about Calvinism?
The Japanese Elvis culture springs to mind.
Also, there are “cowboys” everywhere in the world.
You mentioned lederhosen and of course those types exist outside of Germany too.
The longstanding tradition in India is to wander around naked.
You should see some of the “American food” they sell in some parts of Europe and Asia. I feel like it’s pretty typical everywhere to misunderstand and exoticize other cultures.
America and Japan have this as a special cultural relationship. Are the yankii cringe, obviously, but my little yank heart is warmed by seeing people look at aspects of American culture and asking someone to hold their vending machine Asahi. I hope they feel the same about weebs. The thing is we all just see each other as kinda cool and exotic and so we riff on each other’s shit.
Not just typical. It should be celebrated. I for one throughly enjoy seeing cross cultural exchanges of any creative type. Exotic doesn’t need to be derogatory or dehumanizing. (it’s really unfortunate that it most often is.) Everybody is exotic somewhere.
I want to visit America one time just for the food. I keep hearing from American TV about twinkies and red vines and all kinds of stuff, then I try them whenever I get a chance here in the UK and theyre so bad. I need to know for sure whether we’re getting a version that conforms to our food laws and they lose a lot in the process or if theyre really that terrible.
They’re shitty junk food with nostalgia. As other’s have said, try our Chinese food. And our Mexican food. Also hit up an American restaurant here, especially a diner. Oh and wherever you go ask the locals about their local food and try it, (it’s not weird, we do it when we travel domestically) you’ve probably heard of stuff like Chicago deep dish and Philly cheeses teams, bur basically every city has something they cook good or unique and are super proud of, like Cincinnati has a style of chili they put on spaghetti.
America’s best cuisine isn’t our mass produced mass market foods, its the stuff immigrants came up with to square their cuisine with the available foods and local tastes.
Southern food has entered the chat.
In all seriousness, southern food is some of the best food the US has to offer IMO. There’s a shitton of diversity within the category and it has a lot of flavor and spice.
I really doubt you’ll be impressed. Those foods are made for children, who have bland pallettes and like sugar. And adults who never advanced past this stage.
You can get good food in America. But it won’t be a twinkie.
A lot of the stuff in those foods are banned outside of America, and for good reason. You’re getting the better version, such as it is.
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Everybody in America seems to remember liking Twinkies as a kid but they’re nasty now. Debate continues over whether the twinkies changed, or we did.
The store-bought junk food is pretty bad in America, to be fair. But foreigners also tend to overestimate their popularity, because American media is largely funded by product placement; The average American probably hasn’t eaten a Twinkie in months or even years.
Restaurants are where you’ll truly experience American food. You’ll be amazed at how much flavor is packed into each dish, and at how large the portions are. But the latter is largely a cultural thing; Americans typically have leftovers that they take home. Europeans will see the feast-sized portions on the table and immediately go “no wonder Americans are so fat…” In reality, Americans would expect to take half of it home.
You are extrapolating a lot from your own experience. I can confirm from my own upbringing that my family always had junk food or soda in the house - eating it was a daily occurance, and it was re-added to the grocery list each time we ran out with little thought given to the potential health impacts. And we only took home leftovers if it was, like, a really big meal.
Sure, not all Americans are like this. I’m not like this, and none of my friends are. But I am aware that I very much live in a bubble.
Americans typically have leftovers that they take home
Are you just not aware of how overweight Americans are on average? As i understand it we have been conditioned to believe these insane portions are “a meal”. I was simply unable to start losing weight until i traveled to Mexico to discover and internalize what a normal meal portion is. If you go to a restaurant in the US, you should expect to see most of the people around you finishing their plates
The US’s obesity problem is more complicated than that. It’s not just that our portions are big. Americans have to work pretty long hours too. That means much of our lives we probably aren’t getting much exercise, and when we get home a lot of us don’t have a lot of energy to cook so we probably eat a lot more pre-packaged food. Stress also contributes a lot to weight gain.
And once you have gained a lot of weight, all of those problems, plus the fact that healthcare is so expensive, make it even more difficult to lose.
https://youtu.be/TH6Wq4KWu7M TL;DW smaller portion size, better school nutrition, healthier foods from convenience stores rather than omega-processed fast food garbage
As someone from one of the most obese states in the union, the core of the issue is most definitely not portion sizes. Food quality is shit and most people will eat ultraprocessed foods on the daily because money is tight for most people and fresh/healthy food is hella expensive assuming there’s even access to it. If you have the same amount of calories in ultrprocessed food vs real food, your body will still gain more weight from the ultra processed one because it is less satiating because your body burns through it much faster.
Small scale organic farming used to be the norm in my grandma’s time, but nowadays younger people don’t know what an okra plant looks like or cracked open a pecan. Additionally if you’re even able to access and afford fresh produce it’s mainly water and is not nutritionally dense. This is an issue with the entire food system that’s been built on shipping stuff from far away and profit incentives. Not to mention the targeted advertising of ultra processed foods to kids…
Also, there’s virtually no public transit and the small amount of pedestrian and bike infrastructure is laughable and outright dangerous. You have to have a car to get to most places and most places require a lot of driving to get to depending. That means sitting down for most of the day. It’s hard for most people to get exercise in daily life without being super intentional about it, and a lot of people are overworked and underpaid on top of that, so they understandably just wanna relax. As with most things in life, the answer is always complicated.
I’ve had one Twinkie in the last 20 years, and it was breaded in panko and deep fried.
If you want good American food, when you get here go to a Chinese restaurant.
I’ve traveled a lot for food, and, despite not living and never having lived in America, the US has the best “foreign” food I’ve ever had. The best Chinese food I ever had was in the US, for example. In fact, I think high (and high-ish) cuisine in the US is generally quite good (despite crazily sized portions WTF).
I’ve had incredible Korean food in random towns (~20,000 pop.), incredible Indien in another (<50,000), etc.; I think the US is kinda special when it comes to foreign food like that.
And, of course, there is some American-American food that is amazing. The greatest filet mignon I ever had was also in the US (and again, random small towns, not metropolitan cities). Also: donuts (not from chains) can be craaaaaazy good. Also cheesecake, though I actually prefer the German version of New York cheesecake (cheese cake is originally German, New York improved it, then Germany improved that).
The problem is grocery store food. It all has 3x sugar and chemicals compared Europe. Literally everything, sometimes even organic stuff, tastes fake and disgustingly sweet. It drives me crazy, and is one of the top reasons I would never live in the US. I also dislike the espresso there: nearly all specialty coffee I’ve had in the US has either been extracted by untrained barista or has been a bad copy of faux-skandinavian roasts. I think that situation is better in larger cities though, which I’ve spent less time in.
Ok, sorry for this very, very long ramble. Just some thoughts on American food from someone who didn’t grow up there but has tried a lot of it.
God fuck our coffee. I finally got an espresso machine somewhat recently just so I could have lattes like the ones I had in Europe. A good latte should not need sugar! Espresso should be yummy!
Iirc, there is a vibe in India that Hitler was a great leader who should be emulated. Kind of like how someone might look to Alexander the Great for leadership tips or something.
Check out Takeo Ischi, the Japanese yodeler
I think we’ve found our new rick roll. That is amazing.
Edit: That or Oki Dokey Yogi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z71uWLqw-LY
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i lost my job earlier this year, so i’m just vibin’. Not exactly ideal but I have some buffer time saved up.
