BaileyPark31
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Do We Have To Struggle ?
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Nobody gives a fukk about y'all nikkas complaining about how hard it is. Just like nobody gave a fukk about me living in my roach motel in my early 20s.Imagine complaining that young people are entitled instead of advocating that landlords provide better living conditions
It's folks living worse than that right now. Does that make you a bytch for complaining?
I had to figure that shyt out just like the men before me had to figure that shyt out.
Now it's y'all turn to figure that shyt out. Welcome to adulthood lil nikka
Champagne Kudo
Shyness Boy
traded in their humanity to defend the same system that keeps us in poverty. But they pro black or something I guess
Westbama Heartthrob
Irregular Zero
You're picking fights with the wrong peopleNobody gives a fukk about y'all nikkas complaining about how hard it is. Just like nobody gave a fukk about me living in my roach motel in my early 20s.
I had to figure that shyt out just like the men before me had to figure that shyt out.
Now it's y'all turn to figure that shyt out. Welcome to adulthood lil nikka
We're facing a higher cost of living than you while making the same or less but were just supposed to "figure it out"
It's not even just young people struggling. Everybody is, and it's gonna get worse
But you still can't stop patting yourself on the back long enough to realize it
one of America's greatest myths is that there is no class system and you can just do whatever you want. Of course, you CAN, but the idea that it's likely is not true.
so much rests of the idea of hard work: (which also keeps the working class affixed to this value system)
so if you are born into a fairly affluent family, and go to a great school, get hooked into the family real estate business after, and work pretty hard, the system works.
but if you are born into a poorer family, struggle to get into a good college, and work as a contractor, have two kids, and keep working harder, your ceiling is a lot lower.
but the first person is going to be looked at like more of a success, and viewed that he worked harder.
so much rests of the idea of hard work: (which also keeps the working class affixed to this value system)
so if you are born into a fairly affluent family, and go to a great school, get hooked into the family real estate business after, and work pretty hard, the system works.
but if you are born into a poorer family, struggle to get into a good college, and work as a contractor, have two kids, and keep working harder, your ceiling is a lot lower.
but the first person is going to be looked at like more of a success, and viewed that he worked harder.
There are all sorts of individual solutions I can kick out
She got time to make social media posts?
- She got time to be serious with social media and stop doing "Woe is Me" Vlogs
- She got time to learn something marketable - like nursing, like software programming, like IT
- She got time to find a boyfriend, a husband
- She got time to find a sugar daddy
- She got time to do only fans
- She got time to get on the pole
Back in the day, the solution for the individual was to go to college.
And that worked, for individuals.
But as a class movement, when you've got MILLIONS of people doing it
Millions of people going in debt for it.
And "suddenly" getting a college education wasn't ENOUGH.
There are people with paid off houses RIGHT NOW that have "worthless" degrees.
I know at least 4 engineers that didn't pick the "right" one, and they're struggling.
Would be employers don't care if you can do Partial Differential Equations
The fact that folks multiple languages doesn't just blast open the doors.
So now you gotta get the right degree.
Now you gotta get more schooling.
Now you gotta do internships.
Now you gotta start networking in the middle of high school.
What was a good individual solution - doesn't work for the class.
If anything, Employers are getting more productive employees FOR LESS.
So y'all saying ol girl should move.
Maybe she should.
And when people from High Cost of Living move to Lower Cost of living what happens?
If they're lucky - they have a high income and that high income stays with them in the new place. And this is how Cali Techies have increased home prices in Texas and Idaho. And now locals that were making good local wages - they have to move further out.
If they're not lucky - if they're like this girl - no appreciable skills - What's she supposed to do? Compete with the local chicks to work at Waffle House?
These little penny ante solutions are not what's needed.
By focusing on "not eating avocado toast" and "learn to code" and "leave your high cost of living" - putting the onus on relatively powerless individuals - our society is missing what's happening.
The society we live in is not neutral, the world is not neutral.
Plenty of people work hard all of their damn lives and don't have economic security.
Lemme be crystal clear - Plenty of Republican Suburban White Men that worked "good jobs"/"good trade jobs"/"good white collar jobs" are a paycheck away from a real problem. And the economic system was built by them and for them.
Until folks want to start talking about why the rent is so high, it's only gonna get worse.
^ great breakdown, and also, to add, everyone is so quick to "victim blame", but what that really masks is the self protective idea that because they work hard, they will be spared a similar fate, which isn't (always) true. Many of the professional classes think like this. That they deserve their life solely because they worked hard for it, unlike these lower classes who just didn't work hard enough.
Like the way in horror movies, everyone says "she's so stupid, why would she do this or that", the implication is that they will be smarter, and they are smarter, and will avoid the fate. but they don't talk about the masked killer attacking them, in this metaphor, the inequality.
and that's sort of what we are ALL sold as a nation.
Like the way in horror movies, everyone says "she's so stupid, why would she do this or that", the implication is that they will be smarter, and they are smarter, and will avoid the fate. but they don't talk about the masked killer attacking them, in this metaphor, the inequality.
and that's sort of what we are ALL sold as a nation.
Mike Nasty
Superstar
She's an attractive blond white woman complaining about not being unable to pay rent in the U.S. Zero hustle, dead on arrival.
its the coli everyone got that scrooge mcduff money pit in their crib
get these nets
Veteran
And your suggestion is?We can adapt. Unfortunately, the market will also adapt.
People start shacking up to save money en masse, then landlords start raising rent more / more frequently
You can save up to buy a house with a friend, but with the way that prices & interest rates are...good luck.
Not sure how serious you are, because either you're expecting some type of revolution and realignment of society, or you will adapt to what is happening around you.
This is hard facts. And it won't change until we as individuals realize that our collective power can beat out theirs. The reason the corporations aren't taxed is because so many INDIVIDUALS benefit from them not. But if people realized that was the issue, then they'd be taxed.
My only issue wasn't really that she was dealing with a sad reality, that's easy to empathize with. My only issue is that, in the case of social media, we can't separate clout chasing and moving to areas one can't afford out of some of those individual equations. You don't need to live in LA to be an "influencer" anymore.
I'm from Michigan. I WISH more Californians had the balls to come and gentrify this bytch. I'd rather my city grow with people of all backgrounds than remain a dwindling city of poor black folks. We don't have NYC or San Fran issues. We got space, land, a manufacturing base, access to clean water and no natural disasters.
Yeah...move to cheaper cities.
Widespread encouragement of voting [in favor of the democrats] via social media.
You can "adapt" for a time to make ends meet, but trying to keep the status quo by doing so literally encourages businesses / landlords to continue what they're doing.
We can hold mass demonstrations, etc.
That's just off the top of my head.
CLap up the landlords and CEOs that price gouge
get these nets
Veteran
I respect people agitating for change and using the available tools to fight or stem what they see happening around them
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I track stories about people and lawmakers pushing back in different ways.
But be clear, while this is taking place, people have to prepare as best they can as circumstances change.
I have a hard time wondering where some of the responses to Dora are coming from. I think we are in more precarious positions than some realize.
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