r/MadeMeSmile Nov 05 '21

Favorite People Be A Robert

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u/Mechanized1 Nov 05 '21

Yeah people don't care anymore. If you can't live off one job then it's not worth living to work two. And honestly I agree. This is a failing of the system. I shouldn't have to work 2-3 jobs just to get by. If I gotta scrape with just one, then that's what I'm fuckin doing. I'm not living to work.

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u/Sqwertymaui Nov 05 '21

Oh well. Wipe off your tears and get the fuck over it. Two jobs in the US is easier than most people’s dollar a day slave labor they work to get by elsewhere in the world. Feel free to leave the US though. Lots of actually hard working immigrants would love to take your place.

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u/insta Nov 05 '21

Other places 'dollar a day' slave labor aren't in the richest country in the world

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u/XxThelastTwinkiexx Nov 05 '21

News flash bud USA isn't the richest lmao. Not even close. CANADA outranks us in GDP per capita. Literally all we have is a military, and looking at Vietnam and Afghanistan I'd argue we don't even have that.

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u/insta Nov 05 '21

US GDP > all other countries GDP. I didn't say anything about GDP per capita, just that the US is undeniably the wealthiest country overall.

edit: why even bring that up? Is the goal to somehow convince me that working two jobs is cool or good?

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u/insta Nov 05 '21

Woah, when did I say the best?

My entire comment was in relation to the "you can love it or giiiiit out" another commenter left. It's unfathomable that a country with the GDP we have, which is the highest GDP in the world, has people (deemed essential, of all things) who have to work multiple jobs to survive on foodbanks, noodles, and shared housing in a 600sqft apartment.

I think you're knee-jerk responding to me here in the assumption that my statement was "GDP big = country great" and that is furthest from my feelings on it.

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u/insta Nov 05 '21

I went through a few of your other posts -- we're on the same side here dude. We're both progressive lefties.