How Silicon Valley spreads the dangerous conservative gospel of personal responsibility

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>self-improvement is bad

wtf I'm a NEET now

To be honest, self-improvement doesn't really mean anything if you are playing a rigged game. Which ultra-capitalism certainly fucking is.

>pastemagazine
Literally who?

Meritocracy started off as a term the bleeding hearts used to shame the conservatives.

>not using de-googled link extension
What are you, computer illiterate?

Nah, you just have nothing to offer.

That's up there with the top dumbest articles of the year. No wonder no one has ever heard of them. Saged.

>self improvement is worthless in this capitalist system cause I don't feel like it's profitable
>lets switch to a system of equality where everyone has the same conditions regardless of self worth
I'm sorry that you're so fucking retarded AND worthless as a human being.

How's it rigged?

He doesn't even know, he's just a fucking idiot. His solution is to rig it all over again so there's no incentive to improve yourself anyways and you know it is.

Come on son

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good LORD

> i have read the article, but i fully condemn it

It doesn't look like that machine has any form of speed control on the treadmill, so if the wagecuck were to just quickly spring he could easily outpace the treadmill and reach the money before the boss could stop him.

We know you haven't you fucking idiot

Thank you.
This, is how you post a link, dumbass.
Anyways, good effort, you get a gold star

(((jake stanley)))

fuck, typo. haven't*
Gulchatay, show us your face

He's trying to imply I haven't read the article, as if reading the mental gymnastics behind a completely fucking retarded conclusion is going to magically make the conclusion right.
Sorry retard, I'm not in the business of giving even a shred of credit and justification to fucking idiots who are intellectually dishonest. What a fucking waste of time that would be. That's how you rot your brain, and let yourself believe false realities by conceding over stupid shit that is only 20% accurate

You're a dumb faggot and you know it. These articles are good for one thing and one thing only. Laughing at and making memes from.
If they wanna be taken seriously, they can take their fucking jobs seriously and stop being so goddamn stupid

> his standard is to read only approved (tm) media
> what a stupid person must be to diverse sources and opinions
> there are media that only lie and that only tell truth (c)

>“You are responsible for everything that happens in your life. I know that you’ve had some difficulties. I know that you might not have every advantage. I know everyone has problems, right? But I also know that there’s a place that you want to be…this is human nature. Everyone knows that there’s…a highest version of themselves, that they want to become. The only way you’re going to be able to actually accomplish it is by taking extreme ownership of everything in your life.”
>In the Mentorbox universe, pesky problems and disadvantages exist only in the mind. Once you internalize that success is “learnable,” Mentorbox suggests, material barriers become immaterial. That’s human nature.

They literally didn't even read it. He never said you are guaranteed success.

They talk of "late stage capitalism" and "commentariat" which suggests they are communists.

> Mentorbox’s prescription of “continuous learning” is fresh evidence of what Judith Butler, in her book Frames of War, calls ‘responsibilization’. The concept proposes that in the marketplace of life, practical consequences—like success or failure—can be attributed only to individual effort. The system always gets off scot-free. Disciples of “personal responsibility” ignore structural reasons for why, in a society of absurd wealth, there are just a handful of winners and so many just scraping by. Those at the top earned it, they say; those at the bottom need to pull themselves up by their boostraps.

This is top kek. How dare people try to take responsibility for themselves and actions! We should be victims of the system instead!

Part of me is hoping this is satire, but pretty much all news now reads like the onion did 10 years ago. SAD!

>>lets switch to a system of equality where everyone has the same conditions regardless of self worth


Stop putting words in my mouth, dipshit. You immediately rush to one extreme straw-man argument in order to deflect your own extreme stance.

It's worked great for me. Sorry you are such a pathetic loser.

The worker agreed to work the treadmill for money and the money bag at the top is the bonus if he works hard enough. The worker is motivated as he gets rewarded if he works harder and the owner of the treadmill appreciates having a good worker bringing in more money for him. It's like some of you people here have only worked dead end jobs and never heard of upwards mobility kind of jobs.

Do you even know what wage slavery is?


>Asking for a decent wage is rigging the system so there's no incentive for self improvement.,

Keep rushing spewing your straw-man arguments scumbag. Capitalism forces everyone to play by it's rigged set of rules (money is king after all).

The worker needs to pay money to his landlord or grocer in order to even survive, he has no choice in the matter since money is king in capitalism and the only way to get it is by working for someone else.

You aren't convincing me of anything pal, just making me hate you and your bullshit system more.

Can you elaborate?

>Dangerous Gospel of Personal Responsibility

This sounded like poor satire because the headline is so blatantly ridiculous. But skimming the article they appear to be serious. What's that social law about reality becoming indistinguishable from satire?

>late capitalism

What is this meme anyway? Do commies really think that their shitty manchild-tier ideology will actually stick?

Wtf have we done to this timeline

Self-improvement is masturbation.

>ltov
Biggest economic meme if anything. Value is created by demand.

>self-improvement doesn't really mean anything if you are playing a rigged game.
So what you're saying is you'd rather be the median person in 1517 than the median person in 2017.

>the worker has no choice, that's why we should steal from others to give him more stuff for nothing
But not real communism, am I right? No such thing as capital flight, yeah? How about that $8000/hr minimum wage, yeah? - I mean, it's not like hyper successful Scandi countries like Denmark dont have them and the workers' wages increased naturally, right?

Communism is the ultimate form of corporatism.

I played the game and won. You are a loser and will remain a loser until you blame someone else for your poor life choices.

I'd fight Shatner

>Durrr hooman beans r eekwall!!!!

Underachieving piece of shit advocating mass theft and death. Learn something from the 20th century.

kys

>the dangerous conservative gospel of personal responsibility

Holy fuck these people are retarded

Being payed just enough to survive but never enough to advance. IE You are payed enough to buy food/groceries/basic necessities but not enough to have any left over to save/advance. Companies love this because it means their workers are completely dependent on them for everything and can never leave their employment, because if they miss even a single pay-check they will be in danger of starving. It also saves the greedy fucks at the top money too, so the "market forces" (ie. greedy rich people) will always try pay workers as little as possible.

We don't have capitalism let alone ultra capitalism you massive faggot. You have substantial income tax and if you employ yourself you pay 15% automatically. Corporate tax is what 35%? Plus you pay for retirees and niggers and their healthcare. Then if you (((own))) property you pay property tax. Oh look we don't actually own the means of production after all, you lease it, therefore we more closely have socialism not capitalism.

Yeah he should just lift himself by his bootstraps lololol xD checkmate drumpftards

git gud fgt

You should have developed yourself. Now, you're a worthless human being.

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If they had more valuable skills, they could negotiate their wages because they would be in demand.
For fast-food jobs, lots of unskilled workers apply so there's no reason for the employer to increase your wage considering he can replace you easily.

>Durrr hooman beans r eekwall!!!!

Never said that, you can't win an argument so you use straw-mans.

>"I did well so that means the system is perfect and you have nothing to complain about. If you say the game is rigged, you're just a loser :))))"

What a convincing argument, my opinions have totally changed.


>the worker has no choice, that's why we should steal from others

The only people stealing in capitalism are the rich making profits off of other people's labor.

>give him more stuff for nothing

I mean, he does all the work, why should we not give him a decent standard of living?

The only people who do nothing are the scummy capitalist parasites who leech off of other people's labor. They deserve to be tortured to death for crimes against humanity along with any useful idiot or con-artist/shill who defends them.

>If they had more valuable skills, they could negotiate their wages because they would be in demand.

Valuable skills require education, education requires time and money, something a wage-slave factory worker who works 12 hours a day cannot afford or allocate time for.

Go shill somewhere else.

In order to earn a wage, you need to bring value. It's not the employers decision to pay you a low wage, it's a necessity. If he pays you more than you're worth, it will result in the business going bankrupt and you losing your job.

If you're a fast-food worker who earns minimum wage, but you're essentially doing 5% of the business, you don't deserve more than 5% of the profits of your work.
Flipping burgers and taking orders is only a small part, what about marketing, maintenance, taxes, equipment, meat, potatoes etc. all of that requires money.
Your employer is taking more risk and also taking a hit if sales drop. Meanwhile, you just show up every day and use the equipment and everything else that is set up so you can earn a constant salary despite the sales or economy.

people have been selling and saying stupid shit throughout history but they're trying to force a meme that muh contractions are increasingly acute and that we're in the end stage of capitalism even though their idols were all convinced of its imminent collapse for the last 170 years but somehow this time it's different

The value you get from others ought to be proportional to the value you provide to others.

You're the burden here when you try to rationalize your shortcomings as virtue by blaming them on the "system". Under a pinch, you'd be useless.

Higher education is mostly a signal of high IQ for most jobs. If intelligence was as readily observable as you're face, people would be trained on the job. This is indeed what happened in the past, when the number of people studying/working was small.

WEW we can't have people taking responsibility for stuff now, how will the niggers and mentally ill trannies and libshits feel?

FUCK DRUMPF AND FUCK WHITE PEOPLE

GIVE ME WELFARE BIX NOOD

>personal responsibilities
>dangerous

oh fuck fucks sake the audacity of these communist niggers

>self-improvement doesn't really mean anything
Yeah if you are too dumb to do anything with yourself and can't think for yourself. Sounds like self-improvement would mean nothing to you since you seem to have those things covered.

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Do they?

>Shitskins don't know and are incapable of taking personal responsibility due to their double digit IQ and dindu nuffin mentality
>Taking responsibility is now considered dangerous
PCuck climate still active I see

We must bring it all down /po/, all of it

>personal responsibility
>dangerous
Kekking out loud here.