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Does anyone feel like an actual adult?
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this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2023
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Of course not. No one on earth is really an adult. We do not do things correctly here to foster adulthood, being in the service of "corporations" rather than other actual people. Money - dependence upon money - is the reason.
Here's an example. I brought my car in for service today. In the car service game, they have broken the concept of "service" into itemizable, chargeable subtasks. This is not adult, natural human behaviour, this is marketing. The person you speak to is paid to upsell you on items which should be included in the concept of "getting your car serviced" - wheel alignment, fluids etc. The suggestion this makes is that if you do not pay two or three times for the same job, they will do the work improperly or not at all. We have accepted this behaviour as normal, because it's common and we can't do anything about it, but it's still fundamentally wrong and our lives are absolutely full of insulting, greedy, corporate-mandated childish shit like this. This is done not because the business isn't taking in enough money to be viable, but just to enrich the parasite whom is the head of the organization, and to be able to fund third party parasites like lawyers and the marketing department, out of your pocket.
The falseness, the fakeness that is part of every interaction, is the childishness. The reason for that childishness is money. Money is a child's toy, greed is a childish trait, and "Western" culture which has now taken over the world does everything in its power to hamper the development of grown-up personality.
To the haters, no, I make six figures, I'm not poor, but you are being childish again.
This fucking trash statement with the chefs kiss last sentence makes me think you’re a teenager yourself.
i mean, i'm no fan of capitalism, but when i take my car to the guy who has been servicing it for 10 years, i don't mind that he's itemized the work to ensure that he and the guys who work for him are paid fairly for their expertise and time.
we do, unfortunately, exist in a system that requires money at present.