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My thoughts as well. “Lol go ahead and fire me? Either I’ll just take another wage slave job or realize that you really fucking need my labor. Either way, two scenarios I can risk myself being in”

I also realize this is a very privileged position to have. Because I’m in such a position, I can be truer to my moral compass and values. Behaving in ways that enrich myself at the expense of others wellbeing would be extremely selfish since I can actually choose not to be selfish and still live a relatively privileged lifestyle.

Just kind of wanting to let people know that even in the fairly upper echelons of social status, there are those who fucking hate the system. I’m economically satisfied, but I’m incredibly deprived of human experience and brotherhood.

The few organizations and groups I’ve been in that had real class consciousness were the most alive and joyous I’ve ever felt, even though at the time I was dirt shit poor. I would give anything to go back to those times. And I am now realizing this wish of mine isn’t fantasy. Enough human courage and anything is possible.

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ChildeHarold@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
There’s nothing privileged about quitting a job. People do it all the time. Including people who really need money.

And I don’t know why anybody who has been so “poor” and then becomes “economically satisfied” like you claim can “hate the system”. That is idiotic, and your token self-flagellation as an anon on a back-water federated Reddit alternative does not absolve you from your sins or grant you the brotherhood you so pathetically seek.

That being said, I agree with the first part of what you said. Anyways. Muting thread.

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- underwire212@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  So my comment was meant to be a shared experience of struggle that others could hopefully relate to in solidarity. Not an opinion or argument. That may not have been clear from my comment.
  
  There’s nothing privileged about quitting a job.
  
  I would 100% disagree with your statement here. There absolutely is privilege in being able to quit a job for some other argument than “I fucking need the money to feed my family this week”
  
  Maybe you have never been in such a situation? I have, and I’ll tell you that it fucking sucks. Having to choose between moral values you hold very close to heart and risking not having a paycheck to care for a number of dependents.
  
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- ReadMoreBooks@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Anyways, muted the willfully arrogant user.
  
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