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by Dovira
(CW doomerism in tweet)
It's grotesque that you can have a guy with a steady income and hefty savings, who excercises regularly and has several hobbies, and 9 people out of 10 will say "wow it's really over for this guy".
This guy's main problem is obviously that he doesn't have friends. Apart, of course, from the more difficult-to-manage problem of social status, which is what seems to draw the majority of responses.
Now obviously, this guy's job might not be the most long-term economically secure, but none of the comments are about that. They're about some abstract social appreciation value or duty that is not being fulfilled, and they think the solution is to simply switch jobs. "he should become manager", "he should learn to code", "he should learn a trade", "he should start a business"...
He is expected to make his life into something, not for the joy of the thing itself, nor even primarily justified by cold economic necessity, but simply because that is how it must happen.
How is it that plain life is not enough? It's deeply sick.
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