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This is why I hate Carlin's stuff, it's so fitting for the internet tech sites because the main point of it is jeering and sneering at people who aren't you, wh
by jodrellblank 6y ago
This is why I hate Carlin's stuff, it's so fitting for the internet tech sites because the main point of it is jeering and sneering at people who aren't you, who aren't woke. George Carlin was a Hollywood film star with a net worth in the millions if not tens of millions. He's on stage, not working a 9-5, getting you to laugh with him at all the "idiots".
It's a big club and he was in it.
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoI disagree, having a net worth of tens of millions doesn’t make you comparable to an oligarch. Depending on where you live, if you don’t have 30-70 million in liquid assets, you are middle class (or below).
- apatters 6y agoOh come on, there is no definition of middle class anywhere that includes someone with $29M in liquid assets.
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoI just defined it that way, go to Manhattan and you’ll see I am right.
- neolog 6y agoIn what place can you have 15 million and be middle class?
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoManhattan, NY.
- jodrellblank 6y agoI wasn't comparing Carlin to an Oligarch, I was complaining about the culture of quoting Carlin. If you posted "everyone except me is dumb" you'd get downvoted. If you post Carlin saying "everyone except us is dumb" you get upvoted.
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoThats a fair point. I’m mostly just pushing back on the idea that Carlin is a member of the club merely because he was famous and had a few tens of millions.
- yters 6y agoHaha! Great point! Although, posting on this website odds are you are in the club compared to most of the world :)
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoI e pathize with the sentiment but theres a categorical difference between comparisons. A first world technical professional compared to a third world subsistence farmer is perhaps similar in wealth disparity. I do not agree the difference in influence in similar.
- boardwaalk 6y agoThis is just an ad hominem attack. We’re better off not living in world where no one can have an opinion unless it’s on a direct, currently lived experience. That’s some identity politics nonsense.
- jodrellblank 6y agoWhich hominem do you think I am attacking? You can have any opinion you like, but if your opinion consists of passing around second hand sneers, it's a crappy low-value opinion. "It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." - "haw haw look at all the dumb sleeping people being this new". That's not an opinion, not a valuable commentary, it's just sneering.
- boardwaalk 6y agoCarlin, obviously. You’re attacking him rather than his commentary. If you think his commentary isn’t useful, insightful, whatever, that’s fine. But basing your critique on his social/financial position is not good form.
- fencepost 6y agoIt's a big club and he was in it. When he died his net worth was estimated to be around 10 million, but that came pretty late in life. For a lot of his life he was probably comfortable but far from wealthy.