Why teach kids that it's okay to be a loser?

Why teach kids that it's okay to be a loser?

Because we live in a country where there are 1,000 losers for every winner.

so they can grow up to be edgy basement dwellers.

Why make sites that teach kids it's okay to be a loser?

He's not a loser, he's an introvert. You know, like everyone on this website.

something something harsh reality of life

not everyone can be a winner

and someone has to do the minimum wage labor for society to function

Better question, why the fuck are you here? Loser.

He has his pigeon thing going on and was contempt.
Given HA whole urban city theme it was a nice way to show you can find the kind of people like the pidgeon man that seems like a freak but its actually a regular dude that wants to be alone.

Who wanted to be like him after watching the episode for the first time anyway?

because thats the opposite of being a normie. and no one wants to be a normie.

Hey, you calling everyone on this website a loser? Probably true, but you don't just say stuff like that!

I'm pretty sure that there must be at least a couple of geniuses/millionaires who are introverts. Maybe even a few autistic ones.

Hate to break it to you, but this cartoon is no longer teaching children. The children it's taught are now about to reach middle age. Hell. I use to watch the premier of episodes of Hey Arnold and I'm 32.

I see why Enter resonates with this so much.

The lesson wasn't that it's okay to be a loser, it was that it's okay to feel like an outcast or like you don't belong sometimes. It doesn't mean you have to fly into the sunset with a flock of pigeons, but you shouldn't feel like you should have to fit in if it's not who you are.

Because you'll never amount to anything better, so you might as well be comfortable with who you are.

>and someone has to do the minimum wage labor for society to function
lel no, all those jobs could be easily done away with. The reason why the pay is so shit is because they aren't necessary. Being needed means you have something to leverage to get better pay. That's why sanitation services make so much money in some places.

this made me cry as a kid and still til this day. can relate so hard.

It teaches people that even though you may try to help someone blend into society, it may not be enough to change their destiny.

That said, many of those you try to help do appreciate being treated humanely even if the help appears to fail. They also want you not to allow this failure to poison your good nature.

He wasn't a loser, he flew off to a brighter future.

The moral was "don't do don't what Harold did, because he's a dick"

Hey Arnold liked to teach morals by showing the consequences and making you feel bad about them instead of having the characters do the right thing. In this case, you feel bad for the pigeon man and it sticks with you. The lesson is that both a small act of kindness and a seemingly minor act of malice can have a strong effect on someone.

It's similar to that bunny pajama episode everyone hates. The episode intentionally leaves you feeling bad at the end so that you ponder it. Everything in the episode would have been resolved if Arnold had just put his foot down, but he was so hellbent on doing "the right thing" that everyone walked out of the episode unhappy, both the characters and the audience.

It teaches kids not to bully ugly kids too hard

Is it really that difficult to understand?

But lot's of places are getting rid of their self checkout machines in favor of cashiers. It turns out people don't want automation for some things so some minimum wage jobs will forever exist.

It's not that people don't like automation. It's that the self check-out machines just didn't function correctly. People were able to take advantage of the machines in numerous ways to steal goods (which lost money). In addition the machines simply did not work at times. They were a larger hassle than simply hiring a person to do the job.

It's okay to be different, nobody understood him, but he will continue to pursue his dreams