So I don't understand how ones garden can look like a island paradise, every car, taxi, bus and train as clean as a whistle and everyone be struggling. I mean struggling people live in place where buildings look derelict, public services crumbling and services barely working.
It is an alien planet over there. There is in fact no reason the poorest people in a country can't live in a place that looks nice. "There's no rule that says a dog can't play basketball!"
Guess it doesn't hurt that internet cafes, old subways, and capsule hotels make being homeless a bit more viable. It's a far cry from New York where they put death spikes everywhere, don't put chairs in bus/train stations, and the gestapo will come to kill you if you try to sit on the floor.
GaijinPunch wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 9:30 pmNobody said they were struggling though. Many are not struggling b/c they are not having kids.
That's the same as anywhere: giving up on having kids, living with their parents until death, etc. If someone isn't living the lifestyle they would have wished for, something reasonable like the same deal their parents or grandparents got, I would categorize that as a struggle. These doomer memes don't come from a happy place.
It's like those polls where people say the financial situation of the country as a whole is "bad" at 70%. But say that their own situation is "alright" by ~60%. Setting aside the fact people willing to take the time to answer a poll probably are doing better than the median.. "alright" probably just means "not living in the street+not starving".
There's also a massive positivity bias. Nobody wants to hear someone else's problems. Nobody wants to get dragged down by a drowning man. You're not gonna get a job by making other people feel sad or uncomfortable. Nobody wants to be miserable, and their brains will rewire themselves to accept their current lot in life. Works great, unless something breaks and you end up turning into that lady slamming her purse against a post and having a massive meltdown in public.
Since I started visiting Twitter this year (it's the designated place where the AI bozos aiming to be the new gods of the world will talk to us directly), I've really been exposed to the venture capital types who are money addicts hustling nonstop. They have an uncanny valley aura of positivity at all times.
When they're ruthlessly attacking one another, they actually go beyond the normal level of positivity to the point where even they get it. Altman's recent comments against Ilya:
I love and respect Ilya, I think he's a guiding light of the field and a gem of a human being. I harbor zero ill will towards him.
While Ilya will no longer serve on the board, we hope to continue our working relationship and are discussing how he can continue his work at OpenAI"
Just ruthlessly savage. I've never seen anyone show so much hate on the internet.