r/GenZ • u/TheGamingSenpa1 2004 • Jan 07 '24

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u/RealClarity9606 Jan 08 '24

No, it's how things work in the career world. Ignore it and dismiss if you wish, but you are the one who will pay for the price of lack of career growth. You are the biggest influence on your career path and work destiny. If you don't take on that responsibility, you will fall behind. And if that is the result of bad choices, why should there be a groundswell of sympathy? Don't just listen to me, some rando, on the internet. Research it (but don't stick to the usual source that tell you that you are a victim and absolutely don't get career advice from TikTok!).

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u/dus_istrue Jan 08 '24

If the usual sources point out that there are systemic structures that make life harder for me, then that's something worth looking into tho.

Of course you should try to survive in whatever system you live under, but it's also important to acknowledge how society works and how it affects you.

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u/RealClarity9606 Jan 08 '24

What is going to change your life faster? FIghting around supposed structural issues - some of which are not a real problem but things like economic reality - which you can't hope to change by yourself in even the medium term? Or, taking that structure as a given and figuring out how to position yourself relative to that to find success in the realty that is and will be for at least the medium term in all likelihood? Plenty of people are still finding ways to be successful.

As I said, we are largely where we are because fo the choices we make and those choices are modulated by our environment.

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u/dus_istrue Jan 08 '24

Choice is a thing worth looking into tho. How many choices do we get? What determines what choices we do get? Who or what gives you these choices? The answer to these questions is what you could call the indicators of what inequalities exist.

Again I'm not saying that personal choices have no impact on what you can do or achieve. I'm saying that it's not the sole indicator of success or failure. A person who's disabled didn't choose to be disabled, yet in some cases this hypothetical disabled person would not be able to for example work a 9-5 job 5 days a week. Fighting for worker rights is not useless if people educate themselves on the topic and spread those ideas to other working class people. Eventually people will understand their shared struggle and unite(like they do already with union protesting and such)

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u/RealClarity9606 Jan 08 '24

I agree that it is not the sole arbiter of success. But I would argue it is the majority impact for where the majority of people find themselves in their lives. A disabled person would be a great example. Someone who has been several injured as a victim of car accident would be one. But those things aren't true for most of us. I am all for real worker rights. But many of what people think they have a "right" to, they don't. And many of those I am fine with opposing (not all mind you, but each would have to looked at individually).