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early 20s.
starting to make sense of the facade
the true self remains uncertain



cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude
Tanuki-Computing
@Tanuki-Computing asked:

I think it’s funny, how you’re one of the few tech channels (at least that I’ve seen), that, when talking about corporate greed, and ways companies are fucking the consumer over, will acknowledged how these things are motivated by capitalism. It’s like, many people are complaining about people sneezing, without acknowledging the flu that’s going around.

The depressing truth that suddenly clicked with me about six? years ago is that every time I started complaining about something, I already knew the answer. And I wanted the answer to be a lot more interesting than it really was, I wanted there to be a new kind of malfeasance, something I could really hate. But there isn't. It's always the same.


cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

if i'm the only tech youtuber* whose comments are full of people hollering about communism and absolutely nobody disagreeing, not a single capitalism stan in 500 replies, then I think I can feel like I achieved something special in my life.

* i have no reason to think i'm the only one but christ, it can't be a large pool and i'm happy to have contributed


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that party pooper line hit me in the gut. whenever someone brings up some current event with me i ask if they are ok with knowing the very depressing reason it is an issue. if they say no then i ask to change the subject because it drives me batty listening to people talk as if these issues were spontaneously formed and impossible to understand.

I hate hate hate that this is true, and that I'll have to deny it again to go get a "shit job" at a grocery store, one that ACTUALLY does more good than whatever the fuck "banking platform developer" job I'm Supposed to do, that would pay far better. Even now I'm bargaining hard for some job at a "good" company that's doing its best to solve the problems of the modern era, the problems caused by the very technologies and systems being used to create said solutions, and so on and so forth. I sound like a broken record and I feel insane because nobody wants to admit that meaningfully positive social progress just isn't profitable. (and I'm still deluded into thinking that I can Do Better if I just put my head down, practice and research the hell out of software dev, and make enough games that I can sell some of them to earn a living just above the poverty line)

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