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Y'all are missing the forrest for the trees
God forbid someone add a bit of literary sugar to their argument, else they be picked apart by pedants.
Not getting paid commensurate to your contribution to the success of the company
The news, society at large, people like you online posting replies like this very one
Too bad it's unaffordable. Maybe you need to look at the state of society
He doesn't mention how much he is being paid. His complaint is that someone else is making lots of money.
I didn't say he should be grateful, or how he should feel. I read the news, live in society, can't recall ever hearing that I should be grateful for my job. You?
You think that's the problem here? He couldn't afford some help for whatever is going on with him? Or (since you charged me with being part of the problem), could his problems be exacerbated by folks like you, commiserating, raging against the machine of such horrors as waking up, eating breakfast, having a job.
Yes, very often actually. I live in the US. This is pretty much the attitude of all conservatives when talking about minorities making minimum wage or less. I'm a white male and have been told I should be grateful i have a job by my boss too. One of my friends I used to work with didn't receive a raise when almost everyone else did. He is Latino, and our white boss told him he was privileged to be working there at all. I'm happy for you for never having to experience that, but it is unfortunately all too common.
You're reply is disingenuous in the extreme, because nobody is this subtext illeteriate.
He said he is making lots of money for someone else. He is making the money, therefore it is his money, not the money if the other person. It's like the "taxation is theft" people are unable to apply the same logic on the owners of the boots they lick.
You absolutely said he should be grateful for his job, you just didn't use those words. You mocked him for complaining about his job. Those two things are a distinction without meaning difference.
This messaging is all over the media. If you're trying to say it isn't then you're either lying or you're tragically media illeteriate.
You're the one complaining about his mental health.
But no you're right, it's people like me online in 2025 who affected the mental health of the author of the [checks notes] 1975 book, causing him to use [gasp in horror] a literary flourish. Great job there, detective, you cracked the case!
Thank god you didn't embarrass yourself at all!
I don't understand. You don't believe in hiring, paying wages? Like if you hire me to help you build a website, i should keep the profits of what you sell? Or, more directly, if you later sell the website, that money is mine?
I was questioning all his complaints, including having to shit and piss, and said that indicates bigger problems and needs therapy. You hear mocking and "you should be grateful"? Disingenuous in the extreme, nobody is this subtext delusional!
The message is all over the media that I should be grateful, im sorry I literally can't think of a time I came across that. I hear people suggesting gratitude practice as a way of feeling joy, or maybe would expect "you should feel grateful" at church or some religious context, but, I dunno, maybe im very selective about the media i consume?
You're right, you don't understand, and you're embarrassing yourself
Cool thanks for contributing to the convo.
More than you contributed, taking rhetorical flourish as literal in bad faith 🤷