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America is changing. It used to be a place where excellence was welcomed because people knew that if your neighbors succeed, so do you. Now, there's just infig

America is changing. It used to be a place where excellence was welcomed because people knew that if your neighbors succeed, so do you. Now, there's just infighting, racism, hatred and disdain for anything scientific and skilled. The average Joe wants a huge house, imported cars, hot spouse (or the millennial equivalent of such keeping up with the Joneses) but cannot accept that others who have worked harder, smarter and plainly got lucky can do better, especially immigrants. Not blaming the average Joe but our society is increasingly turning third world with one blaming and fighting another instead of celebrating everyone's successes.Theres a term for it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality

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fxtentacle 6y ago
There's no point in celebrating the success of tech founders if the wealth that they create doesn't spread into the community.
- nine_zeros 6y ago
  But it does spread into the community. Go take a look at your 401k. The alternative to not excelling technologically is ceding the lead to other countries and letting wealth creation of the future happen elsewhere. As a though experiment, would you rather have top tech companies start and expand here in the US or would you rather prefer they happen in China or SE Asia? Because those guys aren't stopping when we are infighting.
disown 6y ago
> America is changing. It used to be a place where excellence was welcomed because people knew that if your neighbors succeed, so do you. What? It's so funny how "news" is able to spin a fairy tale that the masses so readily believe. Ignoring the fact that we exterminated our "neighbors" ( natives ) and stole their land, enslaved blacks, etc, america was never a "welcoming" place. Almost every ethnic, racial group was banned from immigrating to the US at one point. Heck, all of asia was barred from immigrating to the US for most of the 20th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924 Not to mention millions of mexican-americans who were deported to mexico. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation > Now, there's just infighting, racism, hatred and It's always been that way really. > disdain for anything scientific and skilled. Nah. > The average Joe wants a huge house, imported cars, hot spouse (or the millennial equivalent of such keeping up with the Joneses) but cannot accept that others who have worked harder, smarter and plainly got lucky can do better, especially immigrants. You've described humanity everywhere, not just america. > Not blaming the average Joe Really? Because it seemed like you were blaming them. Oh yeah, you did in the paragraph right above this one.
- nine_zeros 6y ago
  Yup. My mistake. I should have said that there have always been people who hated immigrants. Today, they have a loud voice and use statistics from a hundred years ago to justify their actions.

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fxtentacle 6y ago

There's no point in celebrating the success of tech founders if the wealth that they create doesn't spread into the community.

nine_zeros 6y ago
But it does spread into the community. Go take a look at your 401k. The alternative to not excelling technologically is ceding the lead to other countries and letting wealth creation of the future happen elsewhere. As a though experiment, would you rather have top tech companies start and expand here in the US or would you rather prefer they happen in China or SE Asia? Because those guys aren't stopping when we are infighting.

disown 6y ago

> America is changing. It used to be a place where excellence was welcomed because people knew that if your neighbors succeed, so do you. What? It's so funny how "news" is able to spin a fairy tale that the masses so readily believe. Ignoring the fact that we exterminated our "neighbors" ( natives ) and stole their land, enslaved blacks, etc, america was never a "welcoming" place. Almost every ethnic, racial group was banned from immigrating to the US at one point. Heck, all of asia was barred from immigrating to the US for most of the 20th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924 Not to mention millions of mexican-americans who were deported to mexico. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation > Now, there's just infighting, racism, hatred and It's always been that way really. > disdain for anything scientific and skilled. Nah. > The average Joe wants a huge house, imported cars, hot spouse (or the millennial equivalent of such keeping up with the Joneses) but cannot accept that others who have worked harder, smarter and plainly got lucky can do better, especially immigrants. You've described humanity everywhere, not just america. > Not blaming the average Joe Really? Because it seemed like you were blaming them. Oh yeah, you did in the paragraph right above this one.

nine_zeros 6y ago
Yup. My mistake. I should have said that there have always been people who hated immigrants. Today, they have a loud voice and use statistics from a hundred years ago to justify their actions.