Poor snowflake...

I listened to her as much as I could tolerate. Very annoying.

She said we should just be able to have food [for free] but she forgets that the acquisition of food requires "work" or someone willing to work.

Otherwise, her whining takes a similar track as that of the book of Ecclesiastes... All is vanity.... and on a very myopic scope I'd agree.
 
Call me cynical, but it is EXTREMELY hard for me to take this as anything but a parody. Don't get me wrong, I know there are idiots like this in the world, but my common-sense bone has such an incredibly hard time believing this isn't some youthful attempt at getting attention via extreme caricature. At least that's what I wish was happening in that video, rather than the sheer unvarnished stupidity on display that we see and hear from her.
 
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Call me cynical, but it is EXTREMELY hard for me to take this as anything but a parody. Don't get me wrong, I know there are idiots like this in the world, but my common-sense bone has such an incredibly hard time believing this isn't some youthful attempt at getting attention via extreme caricature. At least that's what I wish was happening in that video, rather than the sheer unvarnished stupidity on display that we see and hear from her.
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Good point
 
ALAYMAN said:
Call me cynical, but it is EXTREMELY hard for me to take this as anything but a parody.
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I don't see the parody. Had I just seen the first half, her snark would have led me to believe you're onto something. But by the end of the video, I thought she was dead serious.

There have been various "anti-work" movements online in the last few years--#antiwork, "quiet quitting," the "Great Resignation"--especially in the last few years, likely due to the pandemic, and generally speaking it's been Gen Z at the centre of it. They are looking for a better work-life balance that favours leisure time over long hours in the workplace. There's some validity to that: there are cities where an entry-level worker can't afford to live where he works (e.g. Silicon Valley, NYC).

There's also a lot of delayed adulthood, with young adults desiring nice things, but disliking the responsibilities needed to finance them, and seemingly not making the connection between them. Hence, presumably, this woman's complaint that food should just be available, apparently oblivious to the fact that farmers, canners, etc. don't work for free. Mix anti-work with socialism, and this is the kind of worldview you end up with.
 
unfortunately there are a lot of young people out there just like her.. . some of them even have children... .(which they support on welfare)..... .and they talk exactly like she does about the same issues... ... they are also dead serious.... they don;t think they should have to work or pay for anything necessary to living.... ...every little bit of extra money they come up with.... and sometimes even their rent money they can talk a landlord into waiting a few weeks for.... is either spent on entertainment or tattoos and piercings - which this girl obviously spends a lot of money on too.......

but it could be worse.... ...image she realizes work is necessary one day.... and gets a job in the health care field ...then ends up working in a care home somewhere close to where you live..... ....how would you like to look up from your bed, during your last days in this life, and see that staring down at you?.... :oops:
 
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I don’t think it’s a parody. Many of today’s younger people don’t start working until they’re out of high school and even college—not even part-time jobs! I started working the summer I turned 14 and have been since. It’s a slap in the face when they have to realize that they have to get up early every morning, commute to work, go home, then start the whole process over again the next day, and then the next day, and then the next…for decades!

(I give her credit though, despite her frustration and whining, at least she’s actually working and not living on the dole and eating from the palms of her parents.)
 
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I don't see the parody. Had I just seen the first half, her snark would have led me to believe you're onto something. But by the end of the video, I thought she was dead serious.

There have been various "anti-work" movements online in the last few years--#antiwork, "quiet quitting," the "Great Resignation"--especially in the last few years, likely due to the pandemic, and generally speaking it's been Gen Z at the centre of it. They are looking for a better work-life balance that favours leisure time over long hours in the workplace. There's some validity to that: there are cities where an entry-level worker can't afford to live where he works (e.g. Silicon Valley, NYC).

There's also a lot of delayed adulthood, with young adults desiring nice things, but disliking the responsibilities needed to finance them, and seemingly not making the connection between them. Hence, presumably, this woman's complaint that food should just be available, apparently oblivious to the fact that farmers, canners, etc. don't work for free. Mix anti-work with socialism, and this is the kind of worldview you end up with.
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If taken seriously, I sensed the latter of your two categorizations in regards to her diatribe.
 
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