you have to live in a shoebox, wear rags and ride a cheap bike to work your 12 hour shift 7 days a week because that's how you compete with the third world
Damn that sounds wonderful I cannot wait to pull myself up by my bootstraps (become destitute while boomers laugh in my face about how they got theirs)
@matty @deprecated_ii I can't afford boots let alone the straps for them.
@deprecated_ii This is how we compete and you were never even asked if you wanted to participate.
@chris @deprecated_ii YOU ALSO HAVE TO KILL NIGGERS WITH A MACHETE
IT'S VERY TIRING
GETS OLD SO QUICK
EVERY DAY IT'S LIKE BUSHWHACKING THROUGH A CORNFIELD FOR ME
IT'S VERY TIRING
GETS OLD SO QUICK
EVERY DAY IT'S LIKE BUSHWHACKING THROUGH A CORNFIELD FOR ME
I was thinking about it last night, that Asia sort of proves that just working harder doesn't actually solve the problem.
The Chinese and South Koreans study so hard their eyeballs get screwed up (which is why they all wear glasses, myopia is rampant in their cities), and yet both countries are on the verge of demographic collapse (South Korea in particular).
That doesn't mean you shouldn't work hard, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't defer gratification, but what it does mean is it takes more than hard work and sacrifice to succeed.
I had a dream about this in college. It was a time I was working way too hard -- I'd get up super early and take the first bus to school, finish my homework, go to class all day (essentially a full 8 hour day of classes), then stay until the last bus of the evening studying. In that dream, the drill Sargent from Full Metal Jacket screamed at me: "In every war you had a winner and a loser. Do you think that the only reason the other side lost is they weren't working hard enough?" -- That was 20 years ago now, it's stuck with me because it's true -- Hard work is important, but it's also important that we're doing the right things.
One of my favorite lines in a book of all time is from Sun Tzu. It's been translated various ways, but effectively the statement is: "To fight the battle then look for victory will ensure you lose. You must first win the victory, then fight the battle." -- So from that perspective, there's a lot of important things we're ignoring to fight battles when we should be finding victory instead.
The Chinese and South Koreans study so hard their eyeballs get screwed up (which is why they all wear glasses, myopia is rampant in their cities), and yet both countries are on the verge of demographic collapse (South Korea in particular).
That doesn't mean you shouldn't work hard, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't defer gratification, but what it does mean is it takes more than hard work and sacrifice to succeed.
I had a dream about this in college. It was a time I was working way too hard -- I'd get up super early and take the first bus to school, finish my homework, go to class all day (essentially a full 8 hour day of classes), then stay until the last bus of the evening studying. In that dream, the drill Sargent from Full Metal Jacket screamed at me: "In every war you had a winner and a loser. Do you think that the only reason the other side lost is they weren't working hard enough?" -- That was 20 years ago now, it's stuck with me because it's true -- Hard work is important, but it's also important that we're doing the right things.
One of my favorite lines in a book of all time is from Sun Tzu. It's been translated various ways, but effectively the statement is: "To fight the battle then look for victory will ensure you lose. You must first win the victory, then fight the battle." -- So from that perspective, there's a lot of important things we're ignoring to fight battles when we should be finding victory instead.
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@WhiteApe @matty @deprecated_ii Would you like to finance your boots for 20 years, with straps as collateral?
That's why we need to import more foreigners, to wear the boots for you...
@deprecated_ii Man you guys are getting shoe boxes? Unfair!