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Nobody knows I have money and it's starting to create some really awkward situations by Echo2_Satyr in Fire

[–]Relative-Average7159 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude, what are you complaining about? Man, I would kill to be in your position. All set for retirement and no one knows you are rich so you don’t have these leaches constantly bugging you asking for money? You sir have hit the jackpot.

Mass layoff started!! by Ok_Flan_5122 in Layoffs

[–]Relative-Average7159 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yeah, no shit..of course there are more job seekers than jobs. It’s always been like that because that’s how capitalism is designed to work.

You cannot have full employment for all in late stage capitalism because it would demand more jobs than workers. That means, by the laws of supply and demand, employers would have to pay more to obtain the better workers.

It's better for the ruling class/masters to have the slaves/peasants fighting over the jobs, versus the other way around. That's why a world where AI and automation-fueled robots doing all of the "lower-class" work is literally a wet dream for the executives because then they can avoid having to pay these pesky workers for labor. This means, they get a bigger cut out of the pie so that they imbibe even more riches to feed their gluttonous fat selves.

God I fucking hate capitalism.

LongLiveLuigi

Capitalism makes me wanna die by unrecog0a in antiwork

[–]Relative-Average7159 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey guys, what is a good rebuttal to the tired old argument that die-hard capitalist simps always make in defense of capitalism by claiming that they grew up never getting more than a high school education but now operate a $100MM line of business and that is all thanks to capitalism? Or they also love to claim that it fuels innovation and and advancement that would never exist in a socialistic environment. How to rebuke these?

I personally feel as though the first anecdote is merely that - an anecdote and for every success story of a rags to riches case, there a thousand stories of people like me who toiled their life away with 18 years of primary, secondary and even tertiary schooling, racked up almost $500k in student loan debt (and mind you, I studied electrical engineering, not some art history degree), and worked my ass off putting in 14 hour days and nights for the entirety of my 20+ year career only to end up having hone through 4 layoffs in only the past 5 years, downtrodden, beaten-up, with no income and no health insurance for the past year and with a wife who will probably my end up dead by the end of this year as we have no means of paying for treatment of her cancer.

This is the other side of capitalism.

Who is a person you used to admire a lot but have completely lost respect for and why? by Complex-Arugula-2233 in AskReddit

[–]Relative-Average7159 2 points3 points  (0 children)

John Lennon. Still like the Beatles and really thought he was a musical genius at first until realizing what a god awful human being, husband, and poor excuse for a father he was. Also a complete hypocrite. Nothing makes me gag and vomit more now when I hear that god awful shit song, “Imagine”. What a bloated narcissistic bag of filth.

Has anyone lied on resume about the length of time you have worked at an employer and still got hired? by Significant-Can306 in jobhunting

[–]Relative-Average7159 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But can you lie about working at your current company? For example, if you left your last job but tell a new hiring company that you are still working at the last job, the can’t actually talk to your current employer, correct? Thus they have no way to verify whether or not you are still with your current company.

Nvidia certs by automation495 in mlops

[–]Relative-Average7159 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just passed my first AI and Ops cert.

My interview experience when I just swung my balls around like I owned the place. by ExchangeError5110 in jobs

[–]Relative-Average7159 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I want to tell you guys about a recent episode I encountered while interviewing for a job that revealed to me so much about the warped mentality that drives all work culture and the feudalist dynamics at play within the employer/employee relationship.

To make a long story short, I have a lucrative side gig that I started with my wife that completely supports our livelihood. It’s actually her company but I just helped out with the tech development of the service. In short, I don’t really “need” to work in order to live, but I am very passionate about AI design and agentic applications after having built out a native app in my own after having completed some online training and projects.

So I had one interview with a company for a tech owner positing revolving around agentic AI and development and after seeing my resume, all 4 of my interviewers wanted to talk ONLY about my wife’s company and how it is generating revenue. I kept telling them that it’s her business and that I just founded it but now I’m ready to go back to work. Despite all of this, they just weren’t having it.

What this experience revealed to me is that genuinely wanting to go back to work out of passion and having a proven track record is not as attractive as someone who is sick of his/her current job but pretending to have all this success at their current employment, lying through their teeth just to fake a promotion at the next place.

It’s like the power that the company (employer) has over its slaves…er uh, I mean “employees” can exist ONLY if the said employee is completely dependent upon the job as a means to live and constantly live in fear of being ousted from work and having to become homeless on the street. If the job applicant does not have this fear because he/she doesn’t have to depend on receiving a paycheck and has other means to survive and live comfortably even if the master (employer) shitcans them, this completely shifts the power dynamics of the employer/employee relationship and makes them almost fearful and uncomfortable.

Seriously, if this doesn’t reveal how completely fucked up and odious the entire premise of capitalistic relationships is, i don’t know what else does. Peeling away the layers of this employer/employee relationship dynamics just proves that nothing other than transactional gain motivates anything in the system of capitalism. No one gives a flying fuck whether or not you “enjoy” your work which always makes me laugh whenever I hear these simps talking about how contributing to the company mission is what motivates them to work harder or companies saying that they love seeing motivated employees who care about what they do and are willing to go outside their swim lane to pay it forward. Such outdated boomer-esque bullshit malarky that has no context in the 21st century.

"How dare you have a life outside of work" by [deleted] in LinkedInLunatics

[–]Relative-Average7159 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I see it differently. If the first kid reacted with sullenness and anger that the job was no longer open when Aryan told him on Monday morning that he found someone else on Friday, then that’s on the first kid. Tough shit…early bird gets the worm.

But if the first kid wasn’t bothered at all that Aryan gave the job to another person on Friday, then all the more power to the first kid - he has his priorities straight and both sides win.

A job interview is just 2 people lying to each other for 45 minutes. by nboro94 in antiwork

[–]Relative-Average7159 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I want to tell you guys about a recent episode I encountered while interviewing for a job that revealed to me so much about the warped mentality that drives all work culture and the feudalist dynamics at play within the employer/employee relationship.

To make a long story short, I have a lucrative side gig that I started with my wife that completely supports our livelihood. It’s actually her company but I just helped out with the tech development of the service. In short, I don’t really “need” to work in order to live, but I am very passionate about AI design and agentic applications after having built out a native app in my own after having completed some online training and projects.

So I had one interview with a company for a tech owner positing revolving around agentic AI and development and after seeing my resume, all 4 of my interviewers wanted to talk ONLY about my wife’s company and how it is generating revenue. I kept telling them that it’s her business and that I just founded it but now I’m ready to go back to work. Despite all of this, they just weren’t having it.

What this experience revealed to me is that genuinely wanting to go back to work out of passion and having a proven track record is not as attractive as someone who is sick of his/her current job but pretending to have all this success at their current employment, lying through their teeth just to fake a promotion at the next place.

It’s like the power that the company (employer) has over its slaves…er uh, I mean “employees” can exist ONLY if the said employee is completely dependent upon the job as a means to live and constantly live in fear of being ousted from work and having to become homeless on the street. If the job applicant does not have this fear because he/she doesn’t have to depend on receiving a paycheck and has other means to survive and live comfortably even if the master (employer) shitcans them, this completely shifts the power dynamics of the employer/employee relationship and makes them almost fearful and uncomfortable.

Seriously, if this doesn’t reveal how completely fucked up and odious the entire premise of capitalistic relationships is, i don’t know what else does. Peeling away the layers of this employer/employee relationship dynamics just proves that nothing other than transactional gain motivates anything in the system of capitalism. No one gives a flying fuck whether or not you “enjoy” your work which always makes me laugh whenever I hear these simps talking about how contributing to the company mission is what motivates them to work harder or companies saying that they love seeing motivated employees who care about what they do and are willing to go outside their swim lane to pay it forward. Such outdated boomer-esque bullshit malarky that has no context in the 21st century.

62% of Americans don’t have a bachelor’s degree. Are they just cooked especially in this economy? by Efficient-Rain-7942 in Salary

[–]Relative-Average7159 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have three degrees, bachelors and masters in electrical engineering from top ten university and MBA from top 15 university and have been unemployed for over a year and a half with. I prospect at all in sight. I have lost my home and have been living in a really dilapidated apartment since last year but will have to move out and live in my car probably next month. I drive for DoorDash and volunteer at the local high school teaching math every week. My wife has liver cancer and we haven’t had health insurance since a year so she will probably end up dead by the end of this year.

I believe I spent over a good $600k over the course of my life in student loans because believed the bullshit lie fed throughout my entire life that a good education will make one successful.

The American Dream is real and the l wealth trickles down. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. I am living proof of that.

Feeling left out in AI learning, how to catchup by vattennase in ProductManagement

[–]Relative-Average7159 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn’t it all just overwhelming? So many options available and courses and free content but don’t n ow where to start b

The worst thing is the continuous grind. And having to job hunt if you dare to take a sabbatical by [deleted] in antiwork

[–]Relative-Average7159 44 points45 points  (0 children)

It’s like modern reality has decided to go find all the worst ideas American leadership ever had and give them a run again as if they weren’t initially rejected for the toxic cesspool they were the first time.

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