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Perspectives about life (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Confidant6198@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 60 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Life being worse ensures you never get any power.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 weeks ago

and everything is harder to accomplish

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 weeks ago

that's the unspoken goal.

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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 46 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The irony being that the boomers who say the "builds character" shit had a vastly easier life compared to their parents and grandparents, who fought literal world wars. They think all societal change before them was good (including stuff like colonialism which they see as "civilizing" the savage natives) but any progress after them is the devil because it means they might have to change their behaviour or worldviews, hell, or even the idea that people they think are less than them getting less disadvantaged and oppressed than before which I guess make them jealous or something?

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

this one makes me mad. the sheer entitlement.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i think their entitlement largely comes from the fact that they were one of the few generation who actually had very prosperous lifes (things getting better after the war but still no shitty wages we see today) so obviously (to them) they must have done something right. And that's why they try to share their great way of life (and doing things the right way) with everyone else, so everyone else can live a prosperous life too.

Problem is, their life wasn't good because of what they did. It was good because they met exceptional circumstances in the world's development where there was a lot of growth and innovation that actually improved people's lifes. they just happened to live through it; it's not their personal achievement.

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[–] JustVik@lemmy.ml 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If "Life being worse builds character" then most billionaires don't have it built.

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago

I think you might be onto something fr.

[–] Aphx@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lol just stop being poor and everything will be fine. Trust me.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 weeks ago

Just make sure you choose rich parents when getting conceived smh

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 weeks ago (21 children)

Liberals talking about how much worse life could be as soon as Mamdani won the NYC mayoral election (suddenly its how much things are supposedly going to get):

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[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Character*

*Profit for the wealthy.

[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 11 points 2 weeks ago

"Character" was always just "beaten down to the point where they don't talk back to their 'betters.'"

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