• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 hours ago

    Ah yes, pro wrestling hasn’t changed at all. First introduce a bad guy everyone can hate, and then beat him senseless with a steel chair.

    This time with less racism!

  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todayEnglish
    14·
    4 hours ago

    I got a free PC as a bday gift for my 18th bday, which I was bullied into giving up to my younger brother, ending my wannabe developer career.

    I stared at walls for a good chunk of my life, thinking if only I had something to work with, maybe I’d make something.

    Wondering if there was some junk I could turn into an useful machine.

    Now I’m in debt, because I had to pull my family out of debt.

    I only inherited genetic diseases, I live out of spite to the world that didn’t want me.

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 hours ago

        This is why I don’t want and won’t have kids. I spent my entire childhood asking “why would you bring me here, if you don’t want me?”

        • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today
          1·
          1 hour ago

          I was adopted, then abused. Like, they had to go out of their way to get a kid and then treated it like crap. Met my bio mom as an adult. She was 15, drunk, wanted to get laid at a party, and by the time she realized she was pregnant couldn’t abort. Fucking pro-lifers, I was this close to not having to deal with this shit. This close!!!

      • DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz
        18·
        4 hours ago

        The reality though is that most millionaires and really rich families and people aren’t really the main problem with our current system.

        Even if your family had tens of millions of dollars available while you were growing up, you’re many orders of magnitude closer to a minimum wage worker than to any billionaire.

        The reality is that if most societies redistributed a fraction of the wealth of their top 30 wealthiest individuals, almost no one would be harmed and thousands of people could benefit significantly.

        Now, of course, if you just give money away, that’s no good at improving people’s lives, so it makes sense to use the money to fund hospitals and schools, to provide adequate conditions to the disabled, the elderly, single parents, the homeless and our most vulnerable. And oh, would you look at that, that’s just a tax reform.

        I’m from a middle upper class family, so, I never lacked any necessities but I also couldn’t afford luxuries every day. But I hold no contempt for people who got to grow up living in wealth and luxury beyond what my family could afford. I hold contempt for people who could dramatically improve their entire communities’ conditions and choose to evade their only tax obligations and only invest their wealth to accumulate more and more.

        I think societies should at some point put a cap on wealth. No human being should be as rich as Elon Musk.

        • BremboTheFourth@piefed.caEnglish
          5·
          44 minutes ago

          Now, of course, if you just give money away, that’s no good at improving people’s lives

          Actually, no, I’m pretty sure there have been many studies that show that literally just giving poor people money is all it takes. This is the first one I found after 15 seconds of searching; I think you are really underestimating how difficult it is for poor people to just get necessities, or how difficult it is to get out of debt traps.

          I see where you’re coming from. Drug addicts, gambling addicts, etc, may not be the best demographics to just give money to. But that is not most poor people. It’s a tiny fraction! Literally all we need is wealth distribution, with no need to overcomplicate things. It might not be perfect, but it would be magnitudes better than what we have now.

          Edit, to be clear, I’m not saying we shouldn’t fund hospitals and schools and whatnot. But it’s simply not true that giving money away isn’t effective.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
      7·
      4 hours ago

      If only they were able to give their money away and remove that target.

      Wait, they can??

      Must not be a large burden to bear.

    • AeronMelon@lemmy.world
      6·
      5 hours ago

      I assure you, regardless how you start life, it’s how you live it and how you carry yourself that ultimately defines who you are and what people think of you.

      Whether it’s freeloaders or bill collectors, everyone is being hounded by something.