ShranTheWaterPoloFan

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was making over $60k a year managing a small retail store.

It isn't too hard to break into management of boutique retail shops, but you are basically a rep who doesn't get overtime and has a few additional responsibilities. A part time job at a big corporation won't be a living wage, but it's possible to make a living in retail.

The job really sucks though.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (6 children)

The big difference is the type of job you can get.

If you want to work retail you can make decent money, but you are standing all day, dealing with entitled people and work hours that make it difficult to have a life. If you want a 9-5 better get a degree.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One of the hidden aspects of paying for healthcare is the surprise amounts.

Every time I see the doctor I ask if I owe anything, they always say no and then a week later I get a bill. Why is it a mystery even to those that work there?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

You ever think about how weird most housing is?

Suburbia is lines of houses with the same items in them not being used. Full of people who become petty tyrants comparing about a car being parked to close or a yard not neat enough.

If you start to question how we should live together it's easier to see a way for landlords to cease to exist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But it is the question.

OP wants to know if fairphone will last 10 years. The retort is that even if you can have a phone that is supported for 10 years, you won't want to use it that long.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you think they dyed all their margaritas black in mourning?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

People under the age of 25 tend to be really bad at the Internet. The number of times high schoolers or college kids are mystified by how I'm able to get information quickly from search engines is beyond me.

I'm not surprised they can't tell what's real, they can't search for tiny details like "transmission time to Mars" or "gravity on mercury".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The hexbear is so afraid of introspection and thoughtful consideration of their beliefs they lash out.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Real bad faith framing of your opponents argument there; be better than that.

Like trying to reframe my argument as "rich country good, poor country bad"?

I've mentioned statistics, I've mentioned a human angle and I've been upfront about what ways Cuba is better than the US. You've tried to dismiss my argument by misrepresenting it. This level of insecurity shows how shallow your beliefs are.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

No, it's that saying one place is worse doesn't make it so.

Human development index and quality of life studies put the US ahead of Cuba. Cuba isn't a hellhole that many people make it out to be, but that doesn't automatically make it better than the US.

Cuba has better healthcare and lower cost of living, but Americans aren't on rafts to Cuba.

One of the problems with enacting good and lasting change in the western world is that life is pretty darn good on the whole. It could be a lot better, but just shouting that the US is bad is mindless propagada. Be better than that.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Notice how when confronted with facts the hexbear has no real argument but assumes being obnoxious is the same as making a coherent argument.

Cuban refugees carry a higher level of risk than other countries, and yet they still come. Ignoring facts doesn't make a country better. You wouldn't let a fact like that slide from the US. Hexbears lack intellectual honesty.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Each year around a 100,000 Cubans are willing to risk their lives for a chance to live in the US.

The US is far from perfect, but people don't get on rafts hoping to make it to Cuba.

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