http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/107714386711/after-i-finish-my-shift-at-the-bakery-i-start-my#notes?



"After I finish my shift at the bakery, I start my shift at Starbucks. I work 95 hours per week at three different jobs. One of my sons graduated from Yale, and I have two more children in college. And when they finish, I want to go to college too. I want to be a Big Boss. I'm a boss at the bakery right now, but just a little boss. I want to be a Big Boss."

This is it --- in the real world of real people. I have been attempting to describe the social sickness, the cultural indoctrination, that drives the brutality of the money-state system of global imperial cruelty and theft. Here it is above. I am at a loss of words when words are desperately needed to describe the insanity, the sickness, the cheering of the social incubators of sociopathic empire. The US empire runs, not on the engine of petroleum-based industrial production, but on the engine of shocking love and worship, the adoration of personal wealth and power-- power to tell other people what to do, the power to be the boss of your own tiny business, and scaled up to the quaint desire to be the boss of the planet. If you want to know how the "Big Boss" President of the US can kill millions, torture thousands, and steal from billions of people, it's all so very easy. It begins with the woman in the picture above, and the massive global system of indoctrination that I have seen from California to the Philippines -- the young desperate to engage in beating the economic crap out of their own "friends" and classmates in school.

I think class rage is more like Baltimore inner city compared to UMC, UC, 1%.

Anonymous wrote:Not about that article specifically, but this whole class rage #privlege is getting old already. I'm sorry you CHOSE to go into non profits or teaching or whatever, knowing they don't pay and knowing you don't have a trust fund. Don't be mad at those who have been toiling away 80 hrs a week in finance or law or med. They are EARNING their money. I know that writer says she's not mad at NYC bankers. But IDK -- I definitely have a friend in NYC non profits who willing left biglaw as a very junior associate bc OMG she had a MISSION. And now 10 yrs later she's constantly ragey at those who stayed in biglaw, went in house etc. I'm sorry -- these are CHOICES.

I realize those toiling away in med/law/banking were often not born into money -- so then they made conscious choices to MAKE money and thus are making it easier for their kids etc. If you weren't born into it and chose not to pursue it, then live with your choices and leave everyone else alone.

Not about that article specifically, but this whole class rage #privlege is getting old already. I'm sorry you CHOSE to go into non profits or teaching or whatever, knowing they don't pay and knowing you don't have a trust fund. Don't be mad at those who have been toiling away 80 hrs a week in finance or law or med. They are EARNING their money. I know that writer says she's not mad at NYC bankers. But IDK -- I definitely have a friend in NYC non profits who willing left biglaw as a very junior associate bc OMG she had a MISSION. And now 10 yrs later she's constantly ragey at those who stayed in biglaw, went in house etc. I'm sorry -- these are CHOICES.

There are certain careers that make money and certain ones that require a separate income. It’s not that hard to figure out if you give it some thought. Being middle class in the arts in NYC = getting poor. Very poor. There’s always the exception but. Getting mad because you made that choice. That’s just “why am I not a super model/ NBA star?” Indulgent talk.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m feeling “rage” towards all the posts about working hard if you want to be rich. Hard work is only one part of the equation. Race, gender, mental illness, country of origin etc are also very important.

Yes they are. And you sound like a silver spooner who chose to pursue a pseudo degree that allows you to rage but not succeed.

Actually I’m an immigrant from a lower middle class family. Maybe you need to go stick that silver spoon somewhere.

Legal or illegal?

You should really tell your friends you’re a xenophobe and stop pretending to be white and woke.

My friends know that I am not a xenophobe, white, or woke. But then you are just another raging immigrant who does not appreciate what you were given. Talk about entitled.

I’m off to bed. Some of us actually have to work for a living. Don’t forget to wash that shoe polish off before you tuck yourself in.

Shame that cleaning services require their maids to start working at 8 am. No wonder you know so much about washing off shoe polish. Must be a nice change from scrubbing toilets. That’s all immigrants are good for.

NP. You write this as you post on a site that was created by two people one of whom is an immigrant. It’s a shame America isn’t at war. You’d be almost good enough to use as cannon fodder.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m feeling “rage” towards all the posts about working hard if you want to be rich. Hard work is only one part of the equation. Race, gender, mental illness, country of origin etc are also very important.

Yes they are. And you sound like a silver spooner who chose to pursue a pseudo degree that allows you to rage but not succeed.

Actually I’m an immigrant from a lower middle class family. Maybe you need to go stick that silver spoon somewhere.

Legal or illegal?

You should really tell your friends you’re a xenophobe and stop pretending to be white and woke.

My friends know that I am not a xenophobe, white, or woke. But then you are just another raging immigrant who does not appreciate what you were given. Talk about entitled.

I’m off to bed. Some of us actually have to work for a living. Don’t forget to wash that shoe polish off before you tuck yourself in.

Shame that cleaning services require their maids to start working at 8 am. No wonder you know so much about washing off shoe polish. Must be a nice change from scrubbing toilets. That’s all immigrants are good for.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m feeling “rage” towards all the posts about working hard if you want to be rich. Hard work is only one part of the equation. Race, gender, mental illness, country of origin etc are also very important.

Yes they are. And you sound like a silver spooner who chose to pursue a pseudo degree that allows you to rage but not succeed.

Actually I’m an immigrant from a lower middle class family. Maybe you need to go stick that silver spoon somewhere.

Legal or illegal?

You should really tell your friends you’re a xenophobe and stop pretending to be white and woke.

My friends know that I am not a xenophobe, white, or woke. But then you are just another raging immigrant who does not appreciate what you were given. Talk about entitled.

I’m off to bed. Some of us actually have to work for a living. Don’t forget to wash that shoe polish off before you tuck yourself in.

Anonymous wrote:This is definitely how I feel when I find out people have significant parental help in the form of house down payments (or full purchase price), tuition, completed 529’s, free trips to Hawaii, etc. It’s all very hush hush because they want it to seem like they aren’t getting that much help.

And? What's wrong with that? My husband and I are educated professional people that put in 90
Hours a week between us.
Not ashamed, no need to flaunt tho so many petty people who have not put the time or sacrafices in to get where we are. Oh ya we should pay more than 45,% in taxes so it's fair. BS

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Anonymous wrote:I’m feeling “rage” towards all the posts about working hard if you want to be rich. Hard work is only one part of the equation. Race, gender, mental illness, country of origin etc are also very important.

Yes they are. And you sound like a silver spooner who chose to pursue a pseudo degree that allows you to rage but not succeed.

Actually I’m an immigrant from a lower middle class family. Maybe you need to go stick that silver spoon somewhere.

Legal or illegal?

You should really tell your friends you’re a xenophobe and stop pretending to be white and woke.

My friends know that I am not a xenophobe, white, or woke. But then you are just another raging immigrant who does not appreciate what you were given. Talk about entitled.

Debt for an MFA is insane. But here's the thing, if everyone else is acting as though they don't have much money either, you don't realize how insane it is until after you're stuck in a low-paying career path. I have friends who are .001 percenters, from a famous family with buckets of money, and they will complain to me about their budget woes or brag about the Costco food they served at their kids' birthday party. Then it's spring break in St. Moritz or the VIP Disney tour. Sorry, friend, we're not in the same boat.

There are so many people in DC like this - they can afford to pursue policy careers based on interest rather than money because there's a trust fund or a master-of-the-universe spouse. I can't tell you the number of colleagues at my left-leaning nonprofit whose kids are Sidwell/Maret/GDS and who live in $2m houses. They're great smart people, but sometimes I want to smack them.

who goes into debt for a MFA?

Anonymous wrote:I could only get a few paragraphs in before I found myself rolling my eyes and had to bail. No one likes a whiner.

Me too. I couldn’t imagine that with all the job opportunities in NY that she couldn’t work on the weekends and earn enough to pay for part of her living expenses. Maybe she could meet a man and get married.

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Anonymous wrote:Class rage scares privileged DCUM folks. This thread is not going to end well.

The ruling class understands their own interests. They know what social and government policies are in their self-interest and which policies are not. They spend billions of dollars protecting their vulnerable power and privileges.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m feeling “rage” towards all the posts about working hard if you want to be rich. Hard work is only one part of the equation. Race, gender, mental illness, country of origin etc are also very important.

Yes they are. And you sound like a silver spooner who chose to pursue a pseudo degree that allows you to rage but not succeed.

Actually I’m an immigrant from a lower middle class family. Maybe you need to go stick that silver spoon somewhere.

Legal or illegal?

You should really tell your friends you’re a xenophobe and stop pretending to be white and woke.