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The funny/sad thing about this nihilism is that it's self fulfilling. You don't try and you don't get good outcomes. Meanwhile - life is working very well for
by xyzelement 4y ago
The funny/sad thing about this nihilism is that it's self fulfilling. You don't try and you don't get good outcomes.
Meanwhile - life is working very well for people who don't think this way. Like, every house that comes up on the market is immediately snatched up by some 30/40 year old who is buying a home for his growing family.
Somehow these guys figured out how to get consistently paid. Meanwhile you can be crying that it's impossible because what you do doesn't matter - and of course you'll end up proving it to yourself.
We have a choice of what operating systems run in our heads. Nihilism OS is popular but it's guaranteed to make you poor and miserable. Why would you run it?
- glogla 4y agoThis is such an evil thing to say. You got lucky. Telling people who were not that its their own fault for not trying is just such horrible thing to say. How can people have so little empathy, I will never understand.
- xyzelement 4y agoIf you tried and failed, I have respect. If you didn't bother "because it's impossible" (nihilism) then I have zero sympathy.
- glogla 4y agoI succeeded - I have a condo, summer house and drive a damned Jaguar. I just have empathy with people who don't, because they weren't lucky, like me. I'm not going to go tell people "do it! go buy more lottery tickets! don't give up! you will get there eventually" because I won the lottery.
- xyzelement 4y agoWould you tell people "acquire valuable skills, seek to sell them to quality employers or start your own business delivering tangible value"?
- pixl97 4y agoSeek valuable skills... oops, sorry I just invented an AI that replaces those skills. Too bad about that loan you took out on a house. Value is not a given unless you get big enough to lobby for rent seeking. For the rest of us it's a lottery.
- Apocryphon 4y agoWhat quality employers? Tech, which we now see has been built on ZIRP for the past decade plus, overhired for the past three years and is on the verge of mass layoffs and hiring freezes. If an industry, which was seen as not only stable but lucrative for decades, is actually just one big bubble profiting off of past monetary policy, doesn't that just make one feel a little economically nihilistic?
- revolvingocelot 4y agoHey, it could just be a troll! Or someone with nonhuman morality! Consider the dubious truthiness of "every house that comes up on the market is immediately snatched up by some 30/40 year old who is buying a home for his growing family", but then consider that the corporate person "Blackrock, Inc." is indeed 35 years old.
- xyzelement 4y agoI keep hearing about black rock but that's not who's moving into unneighborhood.
- achenet 4y agodon't confuse bad luck for lack of talent. However, it is true that having an optimistic mentality can help you get lucky.
- xyzelement 4y agoDon't confuse me confusing it :) I have the issue with not trying