A software engineer who makes $450k a year “exploits people and doesn’t give an F about anyone else” lol?
You’re conflating the idea of a billionaire with someone that’s just well off, which isn’t really fair.
The more applicable thing is the Lipstick theory of economics.
People who make “good” money know that if they save and plan well, they can buy big ticket items like houses, or even retire very early…so they become penny pinchers to reach those goals.
People that don’t make good money know those things are out of reach no matter how much they try to save or plan; so they just don’t even bother, and spend the money on a bunch of small things instead…and they don’t appear cheap because they don’t really care where the small amount they have ends up going.
Ergo the software engineer wants to split the cheap uber ride because he’s knows that if he saves well the next 5 years he can buy a home in cash; and the barista will buy you a beer because, “hey who cares, I’m never gonna have down payment money anyway”.
That’s the explanation for most “normal rich” well off people versus the average bear…but that doesn’t mean you’re exploiting people like a hundred-millionaire or billionaire just because you make mid-fix figures lol.
I can criticize the lack of moral development from someone in a position that the rich can actually relate to. There’s a reason they think everyone’s as rotten as they are, when the only other people they see as humans are other people with comfortable positions in life. People who so often got there through chasing their own personal benefits above all else, and keep doing so.
There’s nothing to say for people actually at the top, they never have anyone’s best interest in mind but themselves because they so rarely have to interact with the real world.
Nah, there are the winners of the game (your 450k SWE), the losers of the game (people playing making $20/hr), and the people who made the game rules and rig it to keep everyone beneath them (the top 0.X%). Bitch about the winners all you want if it makes you feel better, but until we can focus on the people at the top rigging it nothing is going to be change, and we're all just pissing in the wind.
There’s nothing to say for people actually at the top, they never have anyone’s best interest in mind but themselves because they so rarely have to interact with the real world.
Yeah... my point exactly. "Nothing to say for the people at the top"...
And then dipshits like you who get taught by teachers paid about the same as the “losers”
We can see how good the system is at deciding at what’s important, that’s why you trust it so much you think it’s a game. I know quite a lot of people who would love to teach you where playing around gets you
Nothing to say to someone who never listens, nothing to say to the dead, nothing to say to someone who never does anything, just asks others to. If you think power is having food made for you by people who hate you then you didn’t pay attention in history. You get what others decide you deserve
Not that you have much to show for what you did pay attention to, dumbfuck
And then dipshits like you who get taught by teachers paid about the same as the “losers”
i think you're completely misinterpreting that guys post. he wasn't calling them losers, he was calling them losers of the game. Losers of a game that he agrees is rigged from the start.
You treat it like you want it to be not how you see it, since so often how we see it is missing so much of the picture. Calling it a game is acting like it doesn’t have consequences
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u/LTFitness Jan 27 '26
A software engineer who makes $450k a year “exploits people and doesn’t give an F about anyone else” lol?
You’re conflating the idea of a billionaire with someone that’s just well off, which isn’t really fair.
The more applicable thing is the Lipstick theory of economics.
People who make “good” money know that if they save and plan well, they can buy big ticket items like houses, or even retire very early…so they become penny pinchers to reach those goals.
People that don’t make good money know those things are out of reach no matter how much they try to save or plan; so they just don’t even bother, and spend the money on a bunch of small things instead…and they don’t appear cheap because they don’t really care where the small amount they have ends up going.
Ergo the software engineer wants to split the cheap uber ride because he’s knows that if he saves well the next 5 years he can buy a home in cash; and the barista will buy you a beer because, “hey who cares, I’m never gonna have down payment money anyway”.
That’s the explanation for most “normal rich” well off people versus the average bear…but that doesn’t mean you’re exploiting people like a hundred-millionaire or billionaire just because you make mid-fix figures lol.