Lefty friends think capitalism is why they can't play
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It's just stupidity. I play video games all the time and I'd rather die than be a pro player.
They can't enjoy play because they haven't improved their marketable skill set to anything beyond Starbucks batista. So they have nothing valuable enough to earn enough money to have a good living and still have free time.
A lot of the complaints the Left bring up have merit at the very start. Cops are fucking awful and shouldn't be trusted. Corporations are greed fucking retards that are dragging us all to hell for nothing. Etc.
But their immediate followup is so retarded people just kneejerk to the contrary position because it seems better than whatever they are going to replace it with. You don't even want to acknowledge agreeing with that singular point to avoid the foot in the door.
>a bunch of factually true statements
"and that's why we need to start switching to this system that has never worked once in the last hundred years and leaves millions dead by the time it's over"
Not even factual statements given that they themselves are the cause of what they complain about.
Housing is too expensive? Can't get a well paying job? Have no meaning in life? Don't feel safe?
Maybe stop voting for the godless communists who flood the nation with criminal foreigners. Turns out there are more jobs and more houses and cheaper food if we don't have fifty million illegal Mexicans stealing everything in sight.
That's why I don't have any pity for them. Because they're cutting their own throats and screaming vitriol at anyone who might be inclined to help. We're literally going to have to shoot most of them as step 1 of fixing this country, so to hell with them and their problems. They want to die, so fuck em.
Perfect way of putting it, because it is a foot in the door. They've shown time and time again that they're incredibly dishonest, and that if you give them the slightest bit of ground they'll seize the opportunity to turn on the craziness and destroy everything.
It's Putler's war tax.
I think there is a lot of expectation from millennials and gen z that they should get a 6 figure salary straight out of college. With their gender studies degrees.
Yes, things are expensive. Inflation is high. Life sucks. But manage your expectations. Work hard. Don’t spend what you can’t afford. Pay off your debts. Don’t eat out every night. Don’t buy a new car every 3 years or a new iPhone every time a new one comes out.
If the capitalism they rail against didn’t exist, they would have all the amazing toys they could buy and play with.
Look at all the clips of young women going "I expect my man to earn 100k-1 million a year" like its a common salary. They have no frame of reference outside of influencers
Then don’t go to university. It’s overpriced and degrees are undervalued. You make more in a skilled trade than you do with most college degrees.
And if the cost of living is to high, move to a town or state where it’s lower.
And no I’m not a boomer. My parents are.
You can thank federally guaranteed loans, banks required to lend to those unworthy of the credit line, and, of course, property tax tied to the value of the home. Don't forget massive increased demand for housing thanks to immigrants not even allowed to be here.
Higher education got stupid expensive, too, thanks to similar issues.
Capitalism appears to have failed as a system, just as communism and socialism has failed (albeit in a different and less gruesome manner and over a longer time frame). Perhaps a new system needs to be produced, or the west can go back to an older model of society. Bring back the values of Christendom or forge something new. Unfortunately, I don't think the modern west has enough intelligent people to choose either path.
They are in open rebellion of the reality that time=money and somehow believe socialism will cure it.
Starbucks Bautista seems like it could be a meme
They can move so slow, it's like they're not even making coffee.
Haha, careless error....I'll leave it though
I agree that professional video game player seems worse than my desk job. If it paid a lot I would do it. I would not quit my job to do it for less or slightly more money, even if I were good enough which I am not.
The one I follow is Magic: The Gathering, and those guys seem to spend 8+ hours a day streaming and getting sponsored, and they don't seem rich. Do get to travel a lot, though. It would be good for a young man.