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Eh who am I kidding, it’s the teenagers subreddit so 95% of it is middle aged men.
A person that is FULLY capable of working, has $15 million in rental propery value and chooses not to work. Should they be supported by the government? (Given police protection, preference towards property rights over human rights in court, etc)
All I ask is for fair (baseball) field (paid for by the city government) and no favour.
Imagine there's a woman, possibly a minority (sexual, ethnic and/or other), with blue hair, piercings, tattoos, smokes weed, has a "free palestine" sticker on her backpack, rich parents, vegan, iphone, lives in a big city. Imagine she sits in a starbucks all day drinking caramel mocha matcha frappiato and complaining about men and the system. Imagine a business owner is sitting at the next table, overhearing her conversation (he's not a pervert, just a normal guy with good hearing (not saying he has to be a guy, maybe it's a woman, but it's a guy)) and he wants to offer her a ~minimum~ ~wage~ job at his business company. Imagine he walks over to her, business card in hand, and she says "fuck off creep". Should the government keep giving this woman 6660€ of free money every month, and should the guy be cancel cultured and publically shamed? What do you think, fellow teenagers?
not saying he has to be a guy, maybe it's a woman, but it's a guy
well yeah that is fully guy shit. Even if they were nominally a woman, in that moment they are being a guy.
Site tagline?
This is beyond poetry
has a job opportunity
hahahahahaha
"This guy gets texts 5 times a day from catfish offering him very respectable positions like: Youtube Bot; MLM Salesperson; Content Moderator (screening gore videos, etc.); AI Mechanical Turk; Crypto Ponzi Investor. All remote, flexible hours, promising around 10k - 20k a year. Clearly he's got options."
If the Quorators podcast has taught me anything, it's that every "teen" on the internet is actually a old pervert
It actually did get exposed at one point that most r/teenagers users were actually men in their 40s
Most Reddit thing ever aside from the fact that /u/spez modded /r/jailbait
Was Ghislaine Maxwell a mod of that subreddit too?
No, she was the moderator of r/worldnews, aka the IOF glazing subreddit
I don’t believe so, no
Tbf that's a bit misleading. Back then "moderator" was a privilege, not a job. Like in old-school forums. The head mod of a sub could make anyone a moderator, it didn't require participation or consent or knowledge. Every celebrity that did an AMA became a mod of all sorts of wacky subs, because "being a moderator" just meant that they were granted the permission to perform moderator actions by someone with authority over the sub.
Oddly terrifying
I've heard teenagers say almost this very thing verbatim unprompted.
I don't know why some in this thread are acting like teenagers are all part of the red guard. Even the ones that are alright still usually lack political and conscience consistency.
Younger people skew less conservative for material reasons that don't bear repeating but this doesn't automatically ingrain class consciousness or prevent reactionary thought.
This is a demographic of which the majority do not provide for themselves and have not yet faced many ordeals in life. Of course a lot of them are going to have some naive and unempathetic takes.
The kids are ripe for radicalization but they do have to actually be radicalized.
This topic is always framed in a way that demonises poor/unemployed people. It's just "person does nothing and gets free stuff at the expense of hard working people". A classic case of dividing the poor & working classes.
Employment status should not be a measure of your worth as a human, plus you can still offer something of value without having a job.
As always with capitalist society, we hold the parasite billionaire class with the highest esteem because they "create jobs" and "earned their money". It's a sick state of mind when people struggling to feed their families and keep a roof over their heads still respect and admire the ultra wealthy who prop up the system that keeps them poor.
The problem with this logic is that it is too easy to dismiss someone with an invisible disability as someone that can work.
All the people have to do is say "Um, actually I think you can work, person on the street with an obvious condition, therefore you're just being lazy."
I have it on good authority that people whose lives are destroyed by mental illness are all just lazy and entitled. The authority in question is my desire to find people I can punch down at while phrasing it in such a way that people think it's progressive.
Yeah that's the exact feeling I get from it.
I dont think that's a category of people statistically large enough to have this concern about. Seems like it would cost even more to police people's ability to work than to just write a check. I do also think it is the responsibility and purpose of a government to provide the people living under it the best lives possible, it's not something I observe much but I do believe it.
Oh, it absolutely does. There was a policing effort in Australia to make sure people on welfare actually needed it and iirc they spent millions to find maybe a few hundred K. It's better just to let people claim welfare when they need it, no job seeking requirement, no asset tests, nothing. I'm sure you'd get a few rich failsons claiming the coupla hundred a week but most people who have enough money that it's genuinely ridiculous for them to be on welfare aren't gonna bother.
Tax those rich failures right and you'd just get it back at the end of the year anyway. Someone who is only living off survival means because they dont wanna work that badly even if you cant find any other reason than it is their preference, which seems stupendously rare, but if this hermit style guy exists, I dont want them to die. Make work itself meaningful, fulfilling and properly compensated and this marginal group that is already borderline imaginary wouldnt exist. The only thing I will ever call human nature is that we like to build stuff.
My government spent millions last year on rejecting peoples disability claims
EDIT: I just saw someone already told you that
you can frame your question to get any answer you want within reasonable limits. no one says yes to "do you want to personally financially support shitheads?" so you have to find the closest thing you can say to this without making it obvious. and still 0.8/2.6k said yes. dogshit hypothetical.
The USA would rather descend into mad max barbarism with warlords then dole out a safety net.
sorry, can't help anyone. capitalism's reserve army of labor requires your desperation and precarity
Trying to imagine the conversation between the 10 forty-five year old dudes that started this subreddit and seeded its original content for months before building enough users. I can't imagine it.
Something like this?
Considering the fact it absolutely is 95% middle-aged men and that it's reddit.....
The poll result aren't that half bad (literally) considering the framing of the question
classic pollster way of lying here by splitting "yes" into two camps to make it look smaller
Btw the only reason it shows up as me “visiting before” is because another poll showed up in my feed and I voted in it without realising what subreddit I was on.
You know this reminds me: Everytime I talk about communism to someone, they always bring up the case of someone mooching off of other people's work. But then I ask them if they would, and they all answer no.
People with little to no social awareness (which I believe is reduced by capitalism) often believe that they're the only ones who have a reason not to work, and that others are leaches. That's why they create scenarios like that. Kind of like a "pro-life" person saying that people don't have a good reason to abort, only they do.
I’m capable of working dat ass!
Doesn't this logic go after Pensioners and Retirees and Veterans and Parental Leave and...