Came across this from a guy definitely IDW adjacent. Seems like the typical ‘oh no, the world is screwed and it’s the young kids that are to blame with their silly ideas about fairness and desire not to be exploited!’. A bit different to the general rationalist bashing we get here, so I hope people enjoy the chance to get stuck into a different type of stupidity. Sorry in advance if this isn’t the kind of thing you want on the reddit.
At cursory glance, this dude follows a lot of the UK transphobes, Ditum, Jackson, Brunskel-evans, Bindel…
But I don’t see a lot of rationalism? Unless Jayman is the HDB Jayman?
This ONE TIME I will allow it, because I can’t stand that specific guy (who is, as it happens, a very angry guy), and also, you know, the initials
Oh yeah, sure dude, FedEx treats that call center worker you were arguing with too well, that must be what it is.
“The Electric Agora: a modern symposium for the digital age” is pompous enough that I would have invented it in college, so I think it deserves at least one (1) sneer.
Somehow the author seems to be arguing both that:
Everyone is angrier and people are being more and more savage to service workers AND
Service workers are coddled little snowflakes who are being bubble-wrapped by their employers.
I don’t see how both could possibly be true. It’s almost like they are unironically arguing “the beatings will continue until moral improves.” Only an idiot of the highest caliber could possibly believe this will somehow end well for them.
Ah, the good old days, when people would dress up for air travel! We have lost so much.
Does not appear to be rationalist, but I lost it at this part:
This entire post is the most Karen/Boomer thing I have ever read.
[deleted]
“We’ve created unprecedentedly unrealistic expectations for young people
and those starting out in the economy, while at the same time telling
those buying the products and services to just suck it up and eat shit.
This will not last.”
What unrealistic expectations? Most young people I know expect to never own their home or be financially solvent enough to start a family. Most expect no pension or retirement. I suspect that the unrealistic expectations are among the dumb old boomers that still think it’s 1950.
I guess in his day low wage jobs were temporary work for nice white,
middle class teenagers before they went to college. He sees their gripes
as complaining about pocket money. He really does need to get out more.
Every low wage job I see
now has very little young kids in it. Often young adults trying to
start a life, a lot of immigrants, and an increasing number of the
elderly who have to work till they drop due to no social safety net.
Yeah… why would these people want to unionize and
not accept their exploitation with grace!