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Anyone who has been unemployed may know how badly it affects a persons self-worth.
by tap-snap-or-nap 4y ago
Anyone who has been unemployed may know how badly it affects a persons self-worth.
- ResearchCode 4y agoThat has more to do with discrimination against the unemployed.
- starkd 4y agoPerpetual victimhood is also devastating for one's sense of self-worth.
- XorNot 4y agoDiscrimination against poor people, more specifically. No one cares how unemployed you are if you're rich. Or at least well off enough to be reclassified as "eccentric" and thus okay.
- therealdrag0 4y agoEh I’ve read plenty of essays by people who have retired early and it was not good for their psyche even though they were loaded.
- i_am_toaster 4y agoSounds like self projecting
- ResearchCode 4y agoI don't see it
- therealdrag0 4y ago[deleted]
- paulcole 4y agoBecause modern adult life is built around working. If working wasn’t the default state then being unemployed wouldn’t feel bad. Does an 8-year old feel “bad” because they are unemployed?
- ilyt 4y agoIt would probably be much less impact if you knew you won't get kicked out of your apartment in few months coz you run out of money to pay rent. Like, sure, "nobody wants to have me working" isn't great, but going to job that barely covers your rent isn't much better.
- mvanbaak 4y agoThis is more a problem with the non-existing income stream