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unproduciblesmackdown · 6 years ago

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i see it with Most “i’m struggling financially and could use some donations” posts where people really self-flagellate for making said post in the sense that it’s yknow like shameful or Bad to be asking people for money and it would just be great if people didn’t have to feel that way b/c it’s not inherently bad to ask for donations but the idea that it’s worthy of contempt / a sign of being a Lesser Person is so entrenched

#once i saw a terrible take from someone that the idea that So Many People Are Poor / need to make donations posts is because #they were trying to ~follow their dreams~ as starving artists or w/e and weren't willing to Put In The Hard Unpleasant Work #it was like you'd expect them to be some 50 y.o. on facebook but they were like 15 #so i just sent them an unambiguously critical but pretty polite series of asks about it and unfollowed #also always reminds me of this post i saw abt job-aquiring Tips where one step was like ''don't do __ b/c its like you're begging for the #job and no one likes a beggar'' and i'm like. amazing #tbh not a single ''here's how to Get The Job'' would-be list of cheats is valid #first of all it's not even true that there IS any foolproof strategy #second of all what it's really based on is connections and Arbitrary Factors wayyy moreso than anything else #third of all ''doing it right'' is all about embracing the ideas of capitalism and dehumanizing yourself and others #third of all weird gatekeeping measures are way more relevant than like...actually being qualified #cuz a TON of ppl are actually gonna be qualified so it's not like the person who gets hired is always Objectively The Most Capable / better #than all the other applicants. fourthly a lot of the shit you ~~~should~~~ do requires SO much energy and attention that like #when you're trying to do a zillion applications at once you just can't treat some particular process as the all important one like they want #you to pretend to do. anyways

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