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It's an Elon post so obviously he's just bullshitting, but I've seen this kind of sentiment among Amerikkkans broadly throughout my life, from the days of the Global War Of Terror up to now. It's even a common insult/comeback in media for basically any mildly disruptive behavior. Why the fuck is there this mindset that the only reason someone would ever protest or challenge the government because they don't have a job? Or that somehow having a job places you under a magical trance that makes you Fall In Line? For a country that emphasizes """freedom""" USians sure love the idea of being subservient for money.
Yes. Chuds outside the US use the "everyone who disagrees with me is unemployed and therefore subhuman" argument all the time.
The idea that wage labour is a fundamental moral good in itself, something that is at once both inherently desirable and a fundamental moral imperative, that you have to be employed to be considered a full citizen worthy of inclusion in the Volksgemeinschaft, that labour sets you free, is promoted by politicians from succdems to fascists.
This fetichising of wage labour seems to be a fundamental and important part of the ideological superstructure of every capitalist society.
And it’s such a dumb moral standard because you literally need to wait for a rich person’s permission before you can absolve yourself.
You know, the lazy snobby fucks who are such vehement perfectionists they will write you off as a village idiot for somehow not having a stem PhD and 10+ years of experience at 18 for their dishwasher job?
And how many “unemployed losers” are really the very CS grads they asked for years ago and then on one arbitrary day decided “no thanks, the tech sector’s all set for workers! We good now, have fun starving!”
That last paragraph is a mirror 🙃
Yet every chud talks a big game about passive income and retiring at 40 because they think working is for losers.
Absolutely. The judgemental chud work ethics only applies to the proletariat. They admire the bourgeoisie and dream of becoming bougies themselves. Different rules apply to the owning class, there is no requirement for them tho work, they are assumed to be contributing more than any worker to society, simply by making more money than them.
That's true but another chud fantasy is the big truck, which is a masculine signifier of work. It's bastardized, but trucks are used for work (or at least they used to be) and that makes the chud's brain light up.