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[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The vibe I get from these articles is "see, even losers like you can be successful and independent if you tried just a bit harder". They also never mentions about how they paid for uni and have no family responsibilities whatsoever. If feel like Citations Needed needs to do a breakdown of these tropes.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 3 months ago

and have no family responsibilities whatsoever

There's corpo dorm mentioned, which combined with rest of content means no family and no social life.

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

Oh totally. I might be reading into this too hard, but people not having to take care of parents, siblings, kids, or comrades is the unspoken entitlement in these stories.

[-] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

That may be the intention, but I think you'd have to be a neolib true believer for the article to read as anything but deeply dystopian

[-] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

their definition of "success and independence" is also stupid, like imagine calling your economic system "the best possible outcome with no alternative" with all the best modern amenities etc. when you define "success" as being free from it... by not using these modern amenities to save money while wageslaving

dumb system run by evil morons

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