Genuinely I think building power lines sounds like an easier job. A lot less stressful at least. Assuming that both have the exact same hours and wage, I know which one I’d choose. If anything the burger flipper should earn more.
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LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah it’s weird when people by default assume you would resent anybody getting something you don’t have, or getting it with less effort than it took you - because they would resent this and they assume your mind must work the same way theirs does.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 days ago
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Frankly I think having to work outside in rain or snow trumps having a clueless 19-yo assistant manager criticize how you cleaned the guac bucket lol.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 days ago
I don’t care, go live in your fancy gold mansions, just let me have a decent, low-maintenance room with AC and air filtration. I will sleep my ass off, then go volunteer for something.
Too much to ask for, sadly.
Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Having more than your neighbors is a huge drive to human happiness. House size has no impact on happiness. Having the biggest house on the block is a huge happiness boost. Above the level needed for minimum sustainable food and shelter, wages have no impact on happiness. Making more money than your friends is a huge happiness boost.
It’s something about how we are wired as humans. Many of us have other drivers that are stronger than the drive to have more than others in our community, but to get social support any strategy for raising the living standard floor needs to acknowledge the issue of this hard-wired drive.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s a very broad generalization. Lots of people need to prove their prosperity with giant houses, and other people just want a house that has the room they need and isn’t hard to clean. There are people who need designer label clothes and gold chains and people who are very happy with thrift shop aloha shirts. I don’t think ostentation is wired in at all, it’s more of a personality quirk some people have more than others, like their resistance to advertising or how spicy they like their food. It’s a combination of genes, culture and habit.
Soup@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Oddly, though, they’re all massive bootlickers and will try to find any reason why billionaires are totally fair and good hardworkers. TheyMre just pathetic.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Oddly not tho. Surprisingly I also see this very clear assumption coming from people who are very anti-billionaire.
Soup@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s more about the owner class than anything. If you deny support to politicians seeking to raise the minimum wage and/or vote for politicians who talk about how the minimum wage concept is evil then you almost certainly are not taking any actions which are anti-billionaire/anti-owner class.
They think rich people are really smart and deserve what they “worked very hard for”. They genuinely believe that the rich “assume the risk so deserve the money” despite them never facing consequences while having incredibly basic ideas. They hate that someone “beneath” them would make money and can’t think hard enough to understand that that would mean they’d get to demand more pay, too. There are even people who think that owners can do whatever they want as long as its legal and they deliberately ignore any nuance regarding what legality is and they jump straight over the concept of baseline morality to tell you that it’s your fault for not changing jobs, as if that’s something you can just do easily(and is if there are better bosses readily available).
All of those examples are what you get when you listen to centrist and conservative media that’s shilling for aggressive capitalism(with state-funded safety nets for corporations, of course). If you say “I don’t think billionaires should be allowed, but all the systems which lead to them are fine” then you’re a complete moron.