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[–]whenfoom 51ポイント52ポイント  (18子コメント)

Men should become aware of the many ways that the economy encourages us to NOT be leaders. When you encounter a problem, the economy doesn't want you to look inwardly to your creativity and resourcefulness. Instead, the economy wants you to look outwardly and ask, "What do I buy? Who do I pay?"

Little do men know that the more we allow the economy to provide solutions in times of confusion and pain, the more dependent we become on the economy. And the more dependent we are, the less attractive we are. One of the side of effects of too much dependency: simulated sterilization.

Consider how NO ONE looks like a leader while on their phones. No one looks sexy, mature, or independent. Phones are playpens. And the more time you spend in the playpen, the more childlike you become. Children are never leaders.

I could go on forever about this...

[–]LuvBeer 22ポイント23ポイント  (2子コメント)

NO ONE looks like a leader while on their phones.

Not sure about that boss....

[–]iLLprincipLeS -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

NO ONE looks like a leader while on their phones.

Not sure about that boss....

yo dookie, pick up the phone

[–]RealGucciSosa 14ポイント15ポイント  (12子コメント)

Individuals' choices collectively make up the "economy". Its not a separate being in and of itself. You and everyone around you, our buying and selling habits, preference of one product over another, etc, is what makes the "economy".

Blaming the economy for anything is putting blame on some imaginery bogeyman. Just like the war on "terror", or rape culture, and so forth. Thats why leftists, fascists and welfare queens are always blaming the economy for their own problems (usually a result of their own lack of skills, laziness or just bad luck).

[–]2 Endorsed Contributorvengefully_yours 17ポイント18ポイント  (9子コメント)

Other than his use of "economy" as a bogeyman, the point is still valid. The most common thinking lately is exactly what he said. Who do I pay to fix this for me? Wheer do I get a new shiny one because this one is a year old? Very few do things for themselves, often citing "No time" yet they waste years of their lives watching pointless TV programs and doing other unproductive bullshit. Then they pay someone for to ten times what it would cost to do it themselves.

It's another way of blaming everyone else, pushing responsibility off on others, and reveling in ignorance. It's a very feminine thought process, because masculine thinking says "Fuck that, I'll do it myself!"

[–]Philhelm 8ポイント9ポイント  (5子コメント)

Speaking of "no time," I literally had an unemployed woman who receives disability complain that she didn't have time to obtain some documents I requested for her husband's immigration matter. Unbelievable.

[–]2 Endorsed Contributorvengefully_yours 11ポイント12ポイント  (4子コメント)

I worked 60-70 hours a week, the first ex had no time to do laundry or dishes because Disney vhs tapes are arduous.

[–]KeithStone30rack[🍰] 5ポイント6ポイント  (3子コメント)

You signed up for another ex after that?

[–]2 Endorsed Contributorvengefully_yours 3ポイント4ポイント  (2子コメント)

Yeah, vetted her ass for over seven years, she was great until I got sick for a few months, 13 years younger than me, she didn't get fat, didn't abuse my finances, and I thought she was "different" but found out AWALT.

[–]KeithStone30rack[🍰] 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

vetted her ass for over seven years

She must have been one of those Russian sleeper agents. Damn man.

[–]2 Endorsed Contributorvengefully_yours 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Young, naive, inexperienced in how bad relationships can be, thought she found her "soulmate" in this halfwit desperate loser kid. Well she might have, because she is 33 and hasn't done anything with her life, except get a useless degree. He is 26 now and prior to her going stupid, he was stalking a 38 year old morbidly obese single mother of two. She was nice to him, and he didn't get the hint until her dad and brother threatened him with bodily harm.

Girls are like water, they mold to fit the man they are with. There's a reason they always do far worse than me when they cheat and I punt them. They hook up with losers, and every one of them wants to come back, but none can.

[–]RealGucciSosa 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

Should be more concise then. Essentially, what we're trying to fault here is consumption culture, particularly dependency. Correct?

I had to point out his mistake, since he was doing what he was preaching against. Blaming something else instead of taking one's own lead/responsibility.

[–]Vid-Master 10ポイント11ポイント  (0子コメント)

You shouldn't use words like "essentially" or "basically" unless it is describing something that is very complex to someone who won't understand the whole picture or process.

It is a strategy of displacing responsibility - "If I say essentially first, it makes it sound more vague and general"

"Essentially, what we're trying to fault here is consumption culture..."

OR

"What we are trying to fault here is consumption culture..."

It is just more concise. I do agree with what you said in your comment.

[–]2 Endorsed Contributorvengefully_yours 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

That's a big part of the problem, consumption culture is an apt term. He was doing that, but he was on the right track, albeit poorly expressed.

[–]whenfoom 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

An economy isn't imaginary. You can say "The economy is strong," or "The economy is weakening," and those statements aren't meaningless. Furthermore, there are different economies (hunter/gatherer, feudal, capitalist, communist). And those economies are systems that produce different things. Just like how your body is a system and it produces shit and air-heady reductionistic philosophies. If the system was different, the products would be different. Organizational properties have causal influence.

And yes, emergent systems behave differently from the individuals that compose them. I won't go into explaining why you should move past that thought, since most American philosophers dwelled on it for a several recent decades.

[–]RP_WIP 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Implying an influence is not blaming, correlation != causation, blah blah blah yadda yadda.

[–]Sebaceous_Sebacious 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

NO ONE looks like a leader while on their phones.

calling bullshit