They seem to think everything just comes easy, everything is obtainable. I was just reading a thread on reddit about a woman who screams non stop at her son and takes all her frustrations out on him and all of reddit are like "She needs to get therapy, for a long time, maybe years, maybe permanently." Like, what the hell? Who on earth could even afford that? Do they all just have endless money? Even if you live in a country with socialised healthcare you normally have to spend ages on a waiting list for a short course of therapy. Who are all these millionaires who think everyone can just be in therapy permanently? Whenever anyone has a problem the reddit answer is always "Therapy, now!" With no thought at all about whether the person can access or pay for that.
I've noticed this with other things on reddit too. There was once a reddit thread where people were asking why poor people buy takeaway food and how they can't be poor if they buy it. I spoke on there about how I'd been in a situation where I was living in a bedsit, had run out of money, only had a few pounds left. There was no money left on my gas or electric meter. I could either put my last few pounds on the meter, or I could buy food, but then with no gas or electric I wouldn't be able to cook any food. So my only option was to buy some cheap ready cooked food like chips from the fish and chip shop. Some really rude redditors refused to believe this, saying no-one is ever in that situation. They are so dissociated from reality they really don't even believe people can be so poor they have to choose between utilities or food.
I've see other threads where someone posts photos of a medical condition they have, asking what it could be. When told to go to the doctor they say they have no medical insurance, no money to pay, etc and the others are like "Just go, this could be serious." Like OK, just materialise money out of thin air then. It's like they think everyone actually has an emergency fund but just doesn't want to dip into it. It makes me think there's no hope for humanity, when so many people are like this, not even wanting to believe how poor other people are, there will never be enough appetite for change to actually change things.
Reddit has slowly evolved into the online country club of the west's top 20%
Basement-dwelling trust fund teenagers who confused their daddy's money for social skills and personality
The countless flunkies of actual tech lords who make $200,000 sitting on their ass all day long brainstorming new ways to enslave the working class, so they can get noticed by their boss
And of course literal feds who suffer from the hilarious delusion that reddit somehow represents an accurate cross-section of the overall populace, basically selling poorly made agitprop and undercooked psyop schemes to rich McMansion schmucks who already agree with them
There was never a time when this wasn't true.
10 years ago Reddit went a little more mainstream (largely because of the 2016 race) but the mass bans in 2020 brought Reddit back into firm country club status
No that's Instagram. Reddit is for the top middle tech sector
More like the entire world. Most Latin Americans on that site are the privileged few living in the wealthiest areas of their countries.
Genuinely. The time I spent on that platform believing that all these people living with like massive gaming rooms with dozens of posters and statuettes and shit were average people has genuinely damaged my idea of "the average person"