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Every now and then, there's an article about some dumb shit a person on The View says. My reaction is always surprise that The View is still even a thing.
I don't really understand who their target audience is. They would've been conservative 20 years ago, but today I think they just cater to saying whatever middleclass boomers want to hear.
A combination of that and knowing that comments like that will get articles like this, garnering them more attention and views. Ragebait may have become a recent Big Problem in the algorithms of social media, but it's been around forever. Howard Stern and Jerry Springer built their fortunes on it.
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It's a fossilized turd. My guess is, there's so much fierce competition for eyeballs these days, if the advertisers think 200 people are actually watching it, they get pretty excited.
There's a lot of people in comas that are in those 200 people and mostly because it comes on after Price is Right.
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Boomer with 30 million dollars earned by having uneducated conversations with uneducated women to entertain uneducated women tells young people to just "get a job".
Blanket statements are usually made by uneducated people.
Just get a job? Why don’t I strap on my job helmet and squeeze down into a job cannon and fire off into Jobland, where jobs grow on jobbies!
I am a fucking insurance professional- educated and licensed -and I still can't make end meet and pay off my student loans.
Tax the rich and enhance social programs. It's not about the job, it's about luck and generational wealth hoarding.
Not all of us can get a job as a loudmouth caricature from 4chan.
"Wealthy asshole has no empathy." I'm shocked. Fuck her. Fuck talking heads in general.
Many people would be surprised how many homeless people have (hard science) degrees or used to be very succesful. Bad luck, medical debt, (mental-)health issues, company goes bankrupt due to circumstances beyond your control, etc.
The world isn't fair. You can work really hard, and end up in the oven of a concentration camp, despite what the slogan above the gate said.
Of course, if you're a relatively talentless hack who's won the equivalent of the lottery despite not really deserving it that much, it's nicer to think that you deserve it because of your inate talent. Vanity. It's the Devil's favourite sin.
I know a couple homeless men who were programmers and burned out, got depressed and gave up
That checks out.
Master's degree in microbiology with a serious disability here. If not for my wife, I'd have been on the streets since it took 23 doctors to get a diagnosis. This lady can get fucked.
Medical debt is so underappreciated and it is no joke. It can add up very, very high and very, very quickly.
The world isn’t fair. You can work really hard, and end up in the oven of a concentration camp, despite what the slogan above the gate said.
oof.
Nothing says "I'm old, rich, and out of touch" quite like "get a job, you lazy bums"
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Fuck the view lol. Everyone that gets a job on that show turns into a jackass, braying their bullshit at top volume. It's the worst side of television.
Pretty sure that's the appeal. It's a ragebait-circlejerk.
Says the person whose primary job for decades now has been to just sit around with other women and gossip. Oh please, get a real job.
Start from absolute zero like anyone else and you wouldn't survive a year in today's economy.
Bold of you to assume most people don't start off with debt.
She's 81.
That's insane. She's insane, too. But I would have said mid 60s.
Money'll do that to you.
Plastic surgery will do that. But plastic surgery can't fix your organs. She'll still be dead within 10 years.
What a fucking piece of shit.
She thinks everyone under 40 is jobless, collecting welfare (???) while eating avocado toast and partying all night. If she hasn't seen the real numbers proving that housing is increasingly out of reach for younger people then her show is to blame, if she has seen the numbers but chooses to sneer "Get a Job!" because it plays to the boomer assholes then she is just a giant piece of shit.
Now that's just not accurate. Either way she's a giant piece of shit, it's only a question of how ignorant she is and whether or not she's choosing to be that way.
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I haven't seen it in ages, and I can't critique the approach, but the maker of SuperSize Me tried to spend 30 days doing a minimum wage job. Iirc, it wasn't great and they had so much debt by the end of it.
I wish these people could get a similar perspective.
McDonald's made an article about how to live on a McDonald's wage with average costs. They couldn't make it work so the first line in their budget was to get a second job.
Love how the breakdown of monthly expenses that McDonald's provided includes "Heating: $0"
Warmth really is a luxury when you think about it though...right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They were basically saying it's perfectly normal to work 70-hour weeks and still hardly be able to cover their made-up costs of living (actual costs are much higher in my area, and presumably in most others as well). Guess you should have gone to college/less avocado toast/whatever. But that's just business! Don't hate the player, hate the game! Blah blah blah (งツ)ว
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I remember seeing that a few years ago and it was woefully out of touch then. But rent has spiked, nearly doubled here, since Covid. I guess I just need a third job and to never sleep again.
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I’m a fucking engineer, what more was I supposed to do? I should be getting ahead instead of treading water.
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Huh, I thought that cackling hen died already.
That was Barbara Walters.
Feck off, cunt.
My job will be to eat the rich.
I have four. Is four enough jobs for you, Joy?
She should shut the fuck up and let Taylor Swift say the smart and helpful shit. She is the Boomer-iest of Boomers 😤
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