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I have trouble taking stories seriously when the person mentions they were almost in tears, I don't know why but it seems disingenuous.
by HiroshiSan 7y ago
I have trouble taking stories seriously when the person mentions they were almost in tears, I don't know why but it seems disingenuous.
- jerf 7y agoI have no trouble. People who make bad financial decisions... not necessarily catastrophically bad, just bad... tend to make other ones, like trying to pay off their debts by becoming an Uber driver because they bought Uber's propaganda lock, stock, and barrel. Being unable to pay off the car could very well be merely an exemplar of a larger problem. I've had a couple friends of the family I've been watching on similar paths. It's not like they're "handing their money over to scammers" or anything catastrophically stupid, but they make a kinda bad decision, then compound it with some other kinda bad decisions about what jobs to take, and then make some more kinda bad decisions, and before you know it, they're losing their house and declaring bankruptcy. The tears might not just be about this particular thing, but the increasingly undeniable recognition they're on a snowball's path down a slope they've done everything in their power to make avalanche-prone. The people I know aren't screwing up by thinking they can make lots of money by being Uber drivers without running the math for themselves (that is, it may work for some people but you really have to run the math and be sure before doing it), but it's the sort of thing that would fit right in to their life story right now.
- jstarfish 7y agoIt's loaded language; a cheap appeal to emotion rather than telling you all the facts and letting you draw your own conclusions about the story.
- pentae 7y agoBecause not everyones a sociopath? Some people are genuinely empathetic of others