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Thursday, December 08, 2022

From the Archives

I randomly came across a thread from 2014 that still resonates today. If you click, you'll see the subject.

Tangential to the actual subject, the discussion talked about someone working hard at two minimum wage jobs, doing all the right things, and why aren't things working out? After all, there are a lot of people who aren't working hard who do so well for themselves. And the author came up with the worst possible response:

You keep whining about how “unfair” it is that you can’t get a good job. “But I’m such a hard worker.” No, actual hard workers don’t feel like they’re entitled to other people’s money just because they ask nicely.

“Why do rich white kids who got legacy admissions to Yale receive cushy sinecures, but I have to work two grueling minimum wage jobs just to keep a roof over my head?” By even asking that question, you prove that you think of bosses as giant bags of money, rather than as individual human beings who are allowed to make their own choices. No one “owes” you money just because you say you “work hard”, and by complaining about this you’re proving you’re not really a hard worker at all. I’ve seen a lot of Hard Workers (TM) like you, and scratch their entitled surface and you find someone who thinks just because they punched a time card once everyone needs to bow down and worship them.

If you complain about “rich white kids who get legacy admissions to Yale,” you’re raising a huge red flag that you’re the kind of person who steals from their employer, and companies are exactly right to give you a wide berth.


That should be even more of a clue as to the original topic.

Now, one commenter said that's kind of what conservatives/libertarians say, and it's true to a point. Any person's sucky economic condition is some part bad luck and some part bad decisions, and I do lean to bad decisions being the leading driver. But no one seems interested in exploring or testing that. I still like my $3000 Plan idea from seventeen years ago, which would make a great documentary or reality series. (But with inflation, it's probably a $10,000 plan by now.)