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Help me dunk on my friend
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Don’t be too harsh he’s a cool dude, but he unfortunately has some capitalism good musk good sentiments that I’ve been trying to dismantle for some time now and i thought I’d ask for help with this.
Or you can just dunk.
ask him if firefighters are in the 1%
continue on to talk about teachers, but before letting him say that 'some teachers are really shitty at their job' ask them if he truly believes there are no driven teachers being rewarded with the shittiest financial means the country can get away with
continue opening the conversation with other occupations, like nurses and construction workers. and ask him, how many nurses it took for a driven and passionate hedge fund manager to make his first billion
don't even bring up concepts like class war or anything, just talk about the material reality and embody what you want to say rather than explaining it
Medical researchers is a good one to bring up imo. They're all fully aware that on the off chance they actually come up with some massive breakthrough they're definitely not the ones who'll be raking in hundreds of millions of it, and yet they keep doing what they do. If it's drive and passion you're looking for it's right there in the lab.
By the same token, it's truly appalling how passion is weaponized to crush every last bit of productivity out of the handful of people who can tolerate 80+ hours a week at the bench.