There is a very real idea in the heart of all the Lefties and such that "being poor doesn't mean you can't have nice things or happiness."
Which on its head is true. If you spend every moment "on the grind" you will end up breaking down entirely, and it will all be for naught. The little self spending goes a long way in burning away stress and keeping focused for when it really counts.
The problem being, like most Leftist beliefs, they don't know what reasonable exceptions are. They think that idea means "buy whatever you want when you want, and its someone else's fault that doesn't leave you with bill money." No different than when they think the only two options are "no sex until marriage" or "fuck literally every person you find kinda attractive" and suddenly end up with the consequences of that too.
I think also a lot of young people see older people with houses and cars and assets and they simply don't make a connection that it took years to acquire that stuff.
Oh, a lot of it too is that they can't correlate the right traits to get the stuff too. I remember seeing a recent study where state lotteries are seeing record participation, with the average new york household spending $10 a month on it. These people are so conditioned to everything in life being "luck" and not "skill" based that they think the only way you can even get to be middle-class is through a one in a million chance.
In most cases it takes time and money to get more of it later on. For most people they want to skip out on the former and just assume that the latter can fix all problems.
A lot of it is based on circumstances that occurred prior to your conception, in-vitro or what you were born into. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos did not go from homelessness and destitution to multi billionaires. Over half of CEO's are six foot or over despite only making up fourteen percent of the population. The candidate who is tallest statistically wins the presidential election. That's just height. And you can't gymmaxx your way to six feet. We haven't covered looks, personality - half of which is inherited and in particular, the dark triad traits, IQ, background born into and growing up and social networking (the concept of who you know, not what you know).
There are exceptions because life is nuanced but in general, most of your life course is determined before you opened your eyes and saw the world for the first time.
Work and effort isn't fruitless and I am not advocating against it. However, it would be wise to acknowledge that it only accounts for a minority of success and that different people have different limits, preferences and abilities.
All of that is true, but God also gave us free will to be able to strive past our circumstances, and most people don't use it and default to the deterministic forces in their life. That doesn't mean any kindergartener can grow up to be an astronaut (hereditary personality traits alone eliminate 90% of them from even wanting to be one), but exercise of free will, achieving incremental and occasionally drastic improvement, is how families and civilizations improve generationally.
The major goal to flip to the next chapter is "having nice things and happiness is a human right." Then once that is exploited to being about global communism, such nonsense will be forgotten as, once again as the only possible natural reality, "only those who work shall eat."
Devil's advocate: As a society we are very, very wealthy. We should be able to afford so much more.
As for an arcade cabinet, emulation could make these things super cheap. The carpentry would probably be more expensive than the electronics. As a side benefit, one cabinet could play a thousand games.
I don't see the point, sure it probably increases the electricity bill somewhat significantly, that's only like 10k worth of stuff they claim they worked extra for, or traded something for. It's not nothing, but it's almost certainly less than vacations, a boat, skiing, and so on.
I don't get it, if that's their main thing I'd still consider them pretty poor. I'd expect most people to have spent more than their value in vacations, takeout, and coffee.
You're assuming he doesn't have more discretionary spending when if this is any indication, he probably has a fair bit there for Postmates takeout and all the other doodads sitting around his apartment. If the guy isn't OK with renting, which it sounds like he isn't, he should be saving up for a house too. Collecting arcade cabinets doesn't help you buy a house.
There is a very real idea in the heart of all the Lefties and such that "being poor doesn't mean you can't have nice things or happiness."
Which on its head is true. If you spend every moment "on the grind" you will end up breaking down entirely, and it will all be for naught. The little self spending goes a long way in burning away stress and keeping focused for when it really counts.
The problem being, like most Leftist beliefs, they don't know what reasonable exceptions are. They think that idea means "buy whatever you want when you want, and its someone else's fault that doesn't leave you with bill money." No different than when they think the only two options are "no sex until marriage" or "fuck literally every person you find kinda attractive" and suddenly end up with the consequences of that too.
I think also a lot of young people see older people with houses and cars and assets and they simply don't make a connection that it took years to acquire that stuff.
Oh, a lot of it too is that they can't correlate the right traits to get the stuff too. I remember seeing a recent study where state lotteries are seeing record participation, with the average new york household spending $10 a month on it. These people are so conditioned to everything in life being "luck" and not "skill" based that they think the only way you can even get to be middle-class is through a one in a million chance.
In most cases it takes time and money to get more of it later on. For most people they want to skip out on the former and just assume that the latter can fix all problems.
A lot of it is based on circumstances that occurred prior to your conception, in-vitro or what you were born into. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos did not go from homelessness and destitution to multi billionaires. Over half of CEO's are six foot or over despite only making up fourteen percent of the population. The candidate who is tallest statistically wins the presidential election. That's just height. And you can't gymmaxx your way to six feet. We haven't covered looks, personality - half of which is inherited and in particular, the dark triad traits, IQ, background born into and growing up and social networking (the concept of who you know, not what you know).
There are exceptions because life is nuanced but in general, most of your life course is determined before you opened your eyes and saw the world for the first time.
Work and effort isn't fruitless and I am not advocating against it. However, it would be wise to acknowledge that it only accounts for a minority of success and that different people have different limits, preferences and abilities.
All of that is true, but God also gave us free will to be able to strive past our circumstances, and most people don't use it and default to the deterministic forces in their life. That doesn't mean any kindergartener can grow up to be an astronaut (hereditary personality traits alone eliminate 90% of them from even wanting to be one), but exercise of free will, achieving incremental and occasionally drastic improvement, is how families and civilizations improve generationally.
The major goal to flip to the next chapter is "having nice things and happiness is a human right." Then once that is exploited to being about global communism, such nonsense will be forgotten as, once again as the only possible natural reality, "only those who work shall eat."
I’ve had to work one or two part time jobs because I didn’t make enough. Why they find that so difficult is beyond me
I'm lazy so I found a job that doesn't give a shit. That should change when I get my masters and get an interesting job.
But if they get off their fat asses and work they'll have less time to feed their tranny porn addiction.
Good point
Devil's advocate: As a society we are very, very wealthy. We should be able to afford so much more.
As for an arcade cabinet, emulation could make these things super cheap. The carpentry would probably be more expensive than the electronics. As a side benefit, one cabinet could play a thousand games.
I don't see the point, sure it probably increases the electricity bill somewhat significantly, that's only like 10k worth of stuff they claim they worked extra for, or traded something for. It's not nothing, but it's almost certainly less than vacations, a boat, skiing, and so on.
I'm pretty sure the Redditor didn't need to commission a pink neon sign for the arcade.
That's very basic, it probably cost around $50.
https://i.imgur.com/JwH7cnP.jpg
I don't get it, if that's their main thing I'd still consider them pretty poor. I'd expect most people to have spent more than their value in vacations, takeout, and coffee.
Vacation lol, working class people don't go on vacations (unless you cound road trips as vacations). At least nobody I knew did.
You're assuming he doesn't have more discretionary spending when if this is any indication, he probably has a fair bit there for Postmates takeout and all the other doodads sitting around his apartment. If the guy isn't OK with renting, which it sounds like he isn't, he should be saving up for a house too. Collecting arcade cabinets doesn't help you buy a house.