• BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    I’ve seen this a lot in my life. People who are never going to be hungry or will never end up homeless treat the prospect of giving anyone else any amount of money as if it would bankrupt them. People in your life who are poor or have been poor, will just help you

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    7 months ago

    I try not to be that guy, but I have a lot of friends like this (will literally venmo charge you in the moment). It just makes the relationship feel transactional.

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      7 months ago

      It’s a damn near universal constant that rich people are greedy assholes.

      Sometimes you get some that are cool people who inherited a bunch of money but in general they’re the scum of the earth.

      Talk to any server and they’ll tell you the people who roll up in fancy cars with watches worth more than a mortgage are the ones doing the math to leave exactly 12% while it’s the guys on lunch break from a job site that’ll leave a $10 on a $25 ticket.

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    7 months ago

    I am really really really really really really really bad with money and wish I had more just so I could buy things for people to make them happy

    I"ve only ever wanted to make other people happy and feel bad that I don’t have the power to do so for more people

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    7 months ago

    had a friend of a friend offer me and my two friends a slice of pizza. before we could even finish bro pulled out the calculator app on his iphone 15 to determine we all needed to add him on venmo to send 94 cents each. next time i saw him he talked about taking cruise ships every summer

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    7 months ago

    I was trying to get rid of an old nes a year or so ago and offered it to a coworker, he asked how much I wanted for it and I just told him to buy me lunch some time.

    Months go by and I’ve totally forgotten and we’re getting lunch and he’s like “nah this one is on me for the NES”.

    I hate venmo culture so much, just have vague favors and stop counting the pennies for the love of god.

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      7 months ago

      Probably only if you are a principle engineer at FAANG and not even these days since the tech crash. But mrah someone who is ultimately also just a laborer made more money than me so they’re the problem.

      • AcidLeaves [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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        7 months ago

        But mrah someone who is ultimately also just a laborer made more money than me so they’re the problem

        If we’re friends that regularly hang out and they ask me to cover half of the 10 dollar Uber ride that they called or my 1 beer at the bar then yes, they’re the problem

        No surprise, the best tech friends I’ve had we never send money to each other unless it’s in the order of hundreds. Anything else we just go back and forth on

        All my tech friends who were dead set on going even for everything, even the ones that have offered to pay me 2 dollars for the movie popcorn that I bought, have all turned out to be neoliberals that don’t care about anybody outside of their friend groups or tech/finance social circles

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          Find better friends? I don’t understand what them being tech people has anything to do with them being assholes. To be clear, what you’re describing is for sure asshole behavior. I have worked in relatively high paying and low paying jobs and have seen all types in all positions. Some people just suck

          • AcidLeaves [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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            7 months ago

            I don’t understand what them being tech people has anything to do with them being assholes

            The tweet is just poking fun at the fact that the average tech bro is way more likely to be douchey

            Can you stop doing the “akschually not ALL tech people” thing?

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              7 months ago

              Not interested in a flame war but I would describe that as an inaccurate characterization of what I was saying. all I said is you’re mad at the wrong people

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                How am I mad at the wrong people? “Wealthy” people who do this suck and are assholes

                You can actually be mad at the ruling class AND people who are working class if they’re shitty. You don’t get a pass on being an unreasonably selfish and greedy person just because you’re a laborer lmao

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                  This silicon valley techbro would be a class traitor during the revolution, and on some level, they know it, but are too cowardly to admit it. That’s why they’re pushing this #notalltechbros thing so hard.