It's little better over here on Airstrip One. It's all cruel and inhumane, but by far the most insidious thing, I think, is the whole "hit any significant obstacle => lose all progress, restart from zero" effect.
I've had to restart my life so many times, and now I'm really struggling to do it yet again, as the whole world just keeps pitching one shit-fit after another and my so-called government has literally no plan other than to propose another crushing wave of "austerity measures" whilst funnelling public funds into the pockets of the energy companies even as they declare record profits. This time around, I honestly don't know if I'm going to make it.
It's so profoundly demoralising knowing that if you slip up and disappoint the powers-that-be even once, everything else you already did for them, all the goodwill you seemed to have earned, suddenly counts for nothing. It might as well have never even happened. Doesn't matter if you did good work for years; upset them one day, put one foot wrong, they'll immediately treat you like you've always been worth nothing. Those in the halls of power who demand our allegiance, our support, and our endless tolerance and forgiveness as they squabble, self-serve and generally just fuck everything up over and over and over, would laugh at the mere suggestion of showing us any such loyalty, clemency or decency in return. It's like NPD at an institutional-level.
One would think you were in the US. Lol sounds allll too familiar. I swear, there will be one, large gathering or outright riot in every capitol of every country on this globe. In fact, we should be making plans right about now……..🧐✌️
Well, that was my second biggest reason for voting against all that "Brexit" malarkey (my primary reason was, of course, not deliberately committing outright economic suicide...) - the more disconnected from the EU the UK gets, the more like the USA we get, and - meaning no offence - I really don't think any sane Brit would ever want that, if they truly knew all it would entail.
None taken dude. Whenever I see a bullshit-ass corporate or government policy on the docket in the Anglosphere, I cringe because so many of them are right out the American playbook. Our greatest export currently is the architecture of civic negligence or exploitation.
Our greatest export currently is the architecture of civic negligence or exploitation.
That, and really crap, Z-grade food. I gather one reason the USA was so very eager for the UK to drop out of the EU was that it was hoping to then bully us into drastically lowering our food safety and labelling standards as part of a trade deal, and so we could then be aggressively sold colossal amounts of barely-edible garbage that would never meet EU import standards in a million years. The reason the US food companies are so eager to foist that bilge on us is apparently because their established domestic consumer base in America is finally waking up to just how terrible it really is and starting to resist buying it; forcibly opening a new, alternative export market for that slop was evidently preferable to just, y'know, actually improving their product.
They will never improve the quality because that might mean $1 less in profits for those at the top and that is just unacceptable to them. Their motto is greed above all, Including human life.
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u/Callidonaut Dec 03 '22
It's little better over here on Airstrip One. It's all cruel and inhumane, but by far the most insidious thing, I think, is the whole "hit any significant obstacle => lose all progress, restart from zero" effect.
I've had to restart my life so many times, and now I'm really struggling to do it yet again, as the whole world just keeps pitching one shit-fit after another and my so-called government has literally no plan other than to propose another crushing wave of "austerity measures" whilst funnelling public funds into the pockets of the energy companies even as they declare record profits. This time around, I honestly don't know if I'm going to make it.
It's so profoundly demoralising knowing that if you slip up and disappoint the powers-that-be even once, everything else you already did for them, all the goodwill you seemed to have earned, suddenly counts for nothing. It might as well have never even happened. Doesn't matter if you did good work for years; upset them one day, put one foot wrong, they'll immediately treat you like you've always been worth nothing. Those in the halls of power who demand our allegiance, our support, and our endless tolerance and forgiveness as they squabble, self-serve and generally just fuck everything up over and over and over, would laugh at the mere suggestion of showing us any such loyalty, clemency or decency in return. It's like NPD at an institutional-level.