• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      if you have so much money why do you think the world is so shit? legit question.

      like, just go spend it and enjoy it.

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          2 months ago

          if you can afford a child with minimal impact to your lifestyle, you are quite wealthy.

          childcare is like 2-3K a month, for that to not substantailly impact you, i would assume your take home is northwards of 10K+ a month, which means you’re making close to 200K+. which is often the income bracket at which having children is not a life-style altering choice.

          for most folks, having a kid is so expensive it completely alters their lifestyle because it removes like 30-50% of their income.

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        2 months ago

        You can enjoy life if you abandon empathy. I’m enjoying the best nightclubs but I walking past a bunch of malnourished and un housed individuals does bring something to think about the whole night

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          2 months ago

          feeling bad for homeless people isn’t empathy. it’s pity.

          it’s really more about you stoking your own ego.

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              2 months ago

              I don’t, because I don’t like being around people who jerk themselves off about how empathic they are for feeling bad for poor people on the street. Just like I don’t like folks who jerk themselves off about how amazing they are and who talk in absolute and hyperbole.

              which is, a large percentage of the userbase here, for sure. according to like 40% of the users here, nobody has ever suffered as they have, and nobody is more empathic to the plight of the unfortunate as they are. and yeah, why the fuck would anyone want to be friends with those people… well probably other people like them so they can jerk each other off about how they use Linux and they’re saving the world from billionaires by doing so.

              weirdly enough, my friends and I in the real world, volunteer in our communities and do shit that helps homeless folks. I’ve literally helped homeless people apply for jobs. But apparently that means i have no empathy, because I’d rather help folks directly than walk home from the bar drunk and feel bad for them… weird!

              almost as if the cure to feeling sorry for yourself and that the world is shit… is going out there and improving it, and not being a whiny miserable cunt of a person who jerks themselves off about how great they are online, or at the bar. because there are plenty of folks like that at the bar too.