• Bakachu@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Holy shit dude. These are real as fuck answers. I have done a few of these while going through hard times. 💯 on the need to project the right image into some people’s pity systems to get what you need from them. They don’t want the truth or to help you, they just want to feel good about themselves. Same for hygiene and creating the illusion of legitimacy to access resources. There’s a strategy for every level of life - and you need to know which to use once you move up or down.

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      10 months ago

      For real dude it’s fucking eye opening to understand how the world works from that perspective. I could waffle on about how we take so much for granted in our lives, but I think most folks could come to those same conclusions with enough thought.

      But being treated like you’re a dingy pet just because you don’t have any money? And realizing you can weaponize that to get a bite to eat?

      That shows you what a society really is. And it punches through a lotta the nursery rhymes you get told growing up about kindness and meritocracy.