• Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    This reminds me of a recent Green Lantern where he gave some supervillain the (hard light construct) chair and straight up knocked her the fuck out in one hit. That chair has the weight and will of an entire subculture behind it lol.

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    2 days ago

    I had a friend in graduate school who drove an actual fucking Yugo. I rode in it once and started to roll the window down and he yelled “DON’T TOUCH THAT!” and the handle came off. Last guy in the world I would have thought was rich but he invited me to his family’s house one weekend and it was a fucking compound of which the mansion was only part. His other car was a Range Rover.

    He didn’t really try to intentionally deceive anybody, he just never mentioned his wealth and of course he drove a Yugo. He lived in the same sort of shitty graduate student apartment that everybody else lived in. We talked about it once and he said that when people knew he came from money he couldn’t have real friendships with anybody. They all wanted money from him or at least couldn’t act normally around him. He could be friends with other rich kids but he hated them, to his credit.

    Not all heirs are worth a chair.

      • DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz
        29·
        2 days 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
          16·
          2 days 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.

          • DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz
            3·
            2 days ago

            Interesting! Thanks for the fact check. I always assumed giving money away would at best just be a temporary bandaid solution since you need a stable income to actually get out of poverty.

            Of course, this isn’t a problem with a stable UBI, I imagine.

        • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          2 days ago

          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.

          If you grew up with millions of dollars, your existence is very different from people making minimum wage because you can live comfortably without much stress or need to burn yourself out working. But you and the minimum wage worker both have effectively no political power, while the few thousand billionaires in the world are really running the show - makes no difference what sort of lifestyles those billionaires are living.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 days 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
      5·
      2 days 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.

  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todayEnglish
    37·
    2 days 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
        18·
        2 days 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?”

        • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 day ago

          i feel that in my bones.

          i didn’t have kids because like, growing up in this. fuck that. i care too much about them to let them live in this.

        • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today
          8·
          2 days 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!!!

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
    25·
    2 days 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!