"Just not buying Apple products isn't good enough for me, I have to spend every waking moment obsessing over not buying them because I love being a contrarian."Quote:
Originally Posted by Plug Drugs
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"Just not buying Apple products isn't good enough for me, I have to spend every waking moment obsessing over not buying them because I love being a contrarian."Quote:
Originally Posted by Plug Drugs
i dont think anyone here can say they dont spend most of their freetime on the internet, that's why it matters. Everything is in the shitter and fixing it starts with an attitude adjustmentQuote:
Originally Posted by Camoron
You do absolutely nothing with your life. You sit around doing drugs and posting lengthy diatribes on the internet that nobody will ever read, you fucking hypocrite.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plug Drugs
shh quiet everyone the unemployed cart pusher on heroin is about to tell us how to live our lives, listen up!
no that time is spent obsessing over how the world could very easily slip into dystopia now that the technology is becoming available for it; corporations handicapping their customers is a big contributor to that, and Apple is a very noteworthy exampleQuote:
Originally Posted by maks
"Wah I don't like one of the 12,000 different mp3 players available at every single walmart"
ive made somewhere around 600k (gross) so far in my life, im doing better than most ppl in the world.Quote:
Originally Posted by hiroshima
when's the last time anyone's actually done something with their life?Quote:
Originally Posted by maks
Do I need to take out a loan for a new car and have a patio set before I can be in the cool kids club?
i'm young and don't know what to do okay, this is me figuring it out. Don't think i'm content sitting around doing nothing; every path laid out consists of either A) Getting into debt or B) committing myself to just one thing in life
No one else my age has anything to show for themselves either really. The ones that do had to completely dedicate themselves to something like moving across the country to do a high paying manual labor job out in bumfuck where there's a 9 to 1 guy to girl ratio
I wish I had 10 grand to just play around with investments, I'd make that my full time job.. Take speed and trade; it'd turn it into a video game for me and I'd win
there's people out there making a difference every single day. you're not, and never will be, so maybe it would be in your best interest to keep your mouth shut about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plug Drugs
what gets you off on pointing out someone's status to invalidate what they're saying? "get back in your place, serf!"Quote:
Originally Posted by maks
I guess a peasant back in the dark ages could have wrote the entire works of shakespeare, but no one would have read them or taken them seriously for being written by a peasant.
How about unemployed cart pusher on heroin who is smarter than you, has more potential, and is also a better person?
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Originally Posted by Batty
Let me know when you meet him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plug Drugs
things pludrugs can do that will not stick him in one thing for life and still look good on a resume:Quote:
Originally Posted by maks
Volunteering for local church/youth/homeless events and programs (be a big brother plugdrugs, youll feel good without drugs)
A mall job, at least its getting you out the house and meeting new people
fast food work or waiting tables, see above
(literally hundreds of thousands of people have paid their own way through college doing shit jobs and never gotten "stuck")
and literally millions of people have worked shit jobs and HAVE gotten "stuck".. Here's just some horror stories to name a few:
- becoming an alcoholic and blowing all your money at the bar
- knocking some girl up and losing all your money to child support payments
- getting married to some girl who doesn't actually love you, getting divorced, and her taking everything
- getting so burnt out from working you don't care about anything else at all, and eventually just accept that position you're in
- being unable to resist the urge to spend all your money as soon as you get it (this was my Mom's problem; got into insurmountable credit card debt)
I will not fucking work for a company that treats their employees like shit, pays them peanuts, and makes millions doing it. I will literally shoot myself before working retail again, I'd rather work for satan himself than the asshats running corporate franchises
Imagine if every fast food worker across the country simultaneously quit their shitty minimum wage job; it would send shockwaves through the corporate world, it would force them to increase their wages. People around here can fish and hunt and farm; that's ALL we were doing just a few decades ago, and people only "went out to eat" a few times a year. People in Northern Minnesota will be just fine and cozy if the system totally collapses in on itself, Hell I'd almost prefer it that way.
no i felt that way when i was a teenager and then i grew upQuote:
Originally Posted by Plug Drugs
let's do it, lets start a facebook group called "National Quit Your Minimum Wage Job Day", set a date for next spring
we can cite some perfectly valid reasons for doing it:
1. Your minimum wage job is disposable and you are likely going to quit soon anyways; why not make it matter when you do?
2. If our little scheme doesn't work, you can just roll across town and get another minimum wage job in like a week; in fact you could just think of it as a vacation.
yeah plug drugs is a perpetual high school sophomore, a manchild with no concept of how the real world worksQuote:
Originally Posted by hiroshima
slogan: "Treat us like we're disposable, fine we're disposable. Have fun"
no i know how it works, but i haven't surrendered to it yet, you'll have to take me kicking and screamingQuote:
Originally Posted by maks
if you had any concept of how it works you'd be at work instead of spamming idealistic drivel on the internetQuote:
Originally Posted by Plug Drugs
when i think of massive conglomerates crumbling like a house of cards and CEOs hiding under their desk in the fetal position with a thumb in their mouth, my face looks like this:
http://cdn3.whatculture.com/wp-conte...13/03/alex.jpg
they are disposable. fast food workers can easily be replaced by any idiot kid off the street, or their jobs could be completely automated if the government keeps pushing minimum wage up to the point where it's no longer cost effective to hire dumb kids.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plug Drugs
*ideologicalQuote:
Originally Posted by maks
it actually looks more like thisQuote:
Originally Posted by Plug Drugs
http://www.mtv.com/shared/promoimage...14/281x211.jpg
no, it's idealistic because it's a bunch of well meaning bullshit that would never work in the real world.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plug Drugs
these already exist, and they currently suck:Quote:
Originally Posted by maks
http://images.travelpod.com/users/ma...ng-machine.jpg
like hell it wouldn't; i worked for some of those stores, I KNOW how much money they make, and how much more they could be paying their employeesQuote:
Originally Posted by maks
there are a lot of problems with automated fast food. If the machine fucks up your order, how do you ask it to fix it, or to get your money back? If it's malfunctioning (which you know they would for a few decades until they got the kinks worked out), does it just keep your money and serve you half-prepared food?
People also feel better about themselves when another human being gives them their food.
I bet automated restaurants could enjoy a mild popularity in Asia though
That's the future of McDonalds if they keep pushing up the minimum wage. How much can you really afford to pay the kid making your $1 cheeseburgers?Quote:
Originally Posted by Plug Drugs
I did too, when I was a kid (which is when you're supposed to work a job like that). I KNOW that throwing more money into the economy is going to lower the value of every single dollar that exists (because it's incredibly simple economics). If you paid every Walmart dipshit $50,000 a year he's going to end up with the same exact buying power he has right now once inflation kicks in and the economy corrects itself. "Raise the wages!" is stupid idealistic nonsense that people with no concept of reality like to go on the internet and yell, it's not going to fix anything and in fact will create its own set of problems.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plug Drugs
do you guys even know anyone who is really fucking cool and not rich?
do you know how many $1 dollar cheesburgers one worker can pump out an hour? A lot more than 7 and a half. If you do the math and factor in the shipping costs, the cost of the food, etc.. that cook making 7 dollars an hour made that much in pure profit for the company within the first 10 minutes of that hour.Quote:
Originally Posted by maks
"Throwing more money into the economy" via raising hourly wages doesn't raise the price of everything else, that is a misunderstanding of economics. Raising hourly wages just means there is less money flowing into a giant corporate bank account and more money flowing into the pockets of consumers, who in turn stimulate the economy.
Sure, mcdonalds wont be making as much money off each burger, but people will be buying more of them. Get it?
ok im gonna answer this lol, then ima post a 90's band better than tool in marks' thread....Quote:
Originally Posted by Plug Drugs
Drink at home its fucking cheaper
wear a rubber dont trust that bitch
look for a new shitty job if you get in a rut, change of surroundings does wonders for esteem
write up a manageable budget and stick to it, be better than your mom its all she ever wanted for you anyways so make her happy
and lastly, then work for yourself but ffs gtfo the house and network or youll never even qualify as a failure youll be a never was...
yeah i know a few people like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by hiroshima
a healthy economy happens when most of the wealth returns to the workers, and the bosses enjoy a life of only semi-luxury.
you can do all that and work as hard as you want, but you're still just going to be chasing a carrot on a stick, and "they'll get you" one way or another. They're not going to sit by and watch you crawl out of a hole and take what's there's, they're going to do their absolute best to push you back into it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cody
If worst comes to worst they'll just take half of what's in your bank account for no reasons and say "Blah blah blah, sorry, shit happens, deal with it"
it only seems that way to him because being rich is part of what constitutes his own definition of "cool", it also means he's a shallow brat. I had the unique vantage point growing up of having rich grandparents, but a poor mother. My grandparents owned a trailer park, and my mom was one of the tenants. So I've sat on both sides of the spectrum my entire life, sifting through the haters on both sides and occasionally finding people who are good spiritsQuote:
Originally Posted by Cody
dude even fucking lisa has done more in life than you have, but at least she actually did something, you skipped the try hard part and went directly to give up and just bitch about everything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plug Drugs
and that is exactly why you dont have steady pussy, right now theres a guy your age fucking a lonely middle aged housewife that ordered a pizza delivery and youre doing what exactly?