druggie calls out chad labor aristocrat friends, gets dragged for slurring them as capitalists
Capitalism is a friendship ruiner
As I get older
, I’m realizing I’m losing some of my oldest friendships because of capitalism
. My college friend group has slowly split into two groups over the past 15 years: the super rich corporate capitalists making over $400,000/year
or the low wage artists
and service professionals
, who will probably never see six figures
. Whether it be a friend who works for a law firm
and represents mega-corps...
Or an investment banker friend
, with literal millions in the bank, who Venmo requests even our brokest friends for a $8 latte
, the capitalists have become insufferable
. Another is working for one of the biggest water polluters in the world
, yet apparently cares about climate change. They all embody “socially democrat, fiscally conservative” politics 
which just says you’re a hypocrite
.
I’ve watched the desire to hoard wealth
turn these once generous and considerate people into greedy, vapid shells of themselves
. They’ve all compromised their values in egregious ways and justified it in the pursuit of “making a living.”
I reached a breaking point this week when one of them had the audacity to make fun of a lower ranking “poor” coworker who made “only $250,000” a year
, when they know my butt barely hits $60k
. Knowing how much they value your worth by the size of your bank account
, I can’t even imagine what they say about me behind my back
.
Anyway, I just needed to rant about how much it sucks to lose friends because they’re obsessed with money
. And if anyone else is going through something similar, you’re not alone
.
A high paid employee that makes the corporate machine more efficient is a capitalist. They sure as heck ain’t socialists or communists
Light roasted drama
Welcome to the anti work movement
Yeah the thought of any of them being able to survive without their status symbols is laughable. Money is their entire personality
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the 8$ latte--
Spends all their poverty wage on drugs, parties, and tatoos.
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This person doesn't seem obsessed with money at all. Sucks that capitalism has made everyone around her into a shitty person, she sounds really reliable and fun to be around.
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Commies posting their L's
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That’s what smart people do, and probably why there is already a significant gulf between the $60k/yr artists (doesn’t seem bad for art gigs) and the >$250k/yr friends. The more ambitious friends probably got farther while the less ambitious got stuck behind.
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Yeah, I'd pass on giving them a chance to embarrass me at the office.
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“Put me on big bro”
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Luckily I was always a stingy frick, with or without money. Can't accuse me of changing my values.
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Gotta stick to your principles. Latte is shit so i don't buy it for anybody
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How do you land a position that pays that much? Get a business
degree 
from Harvard? That's "very rich" by my standards.
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Sounds like she's friends with a bunch of investment bankers/finance types. Which means he probably had a pretty privileged upbringing but oddly enough that isn't brought up.
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Legacy woman
https://old.reddit.com/r/childfree/comments/11fios9/to_any_cf_people_who_havent_had_any_sterilization/jakt5wh/
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Yeah just saw that.
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She probably also has the same upbringing as him since it sounds like they at least knew each other from college, so if anything she fumbled the bag.
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Yeah no doubt lmao, particularly the split where she says her friends that she grew up with either became mega rich or artists. Gives NYC vibes where they all think they’re doing it tough as an artist despite receiving rent paid for by parents or smth
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Yeah this girl is probably some Ivy League grad who just kinda sucked/chose a dumb major
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If you live in the bay, 250k sucks unless you have a bunch of roommates in which case it still kinda sucks because you live in the bay.
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This is the only true part of your statement. If you still need roommates while making 250k, you’re really bad with money.
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I get it if you're young and you want to save more money for later though.
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Go to teamblind.com and take in the neurodivergent sexy Indian dude wisdom. Grindmaxx and land a job in the bay with a lot of stock compensation. Pray stock goes up so your effective compensation skyrockets. Or go into some trading company where you can theoretically make like $400k+ as a new grad. https://www.levels.fyi/companies/jane-street/salaries/software-engineer
That's the tech path at least.
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It’s a lot for normie standards but it’s a bit low for a finance or law job.
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Friends - Goes out into world, gets high paying job, does well for themselves. They realize that they want to keep what they worked for so they defend it.
This guy - I’ve watched the desire to hoard turn these once generous and considerate people into greedy, vapid shells of themselves
He sounds really poor. He should of hung out with the ones doing well and figured out how to emulate it.
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Capitalism is so effective at assigning value, anti-capitalists are forced to say that good things are bad in order to argue for an alternative.
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It’s such a poor thing to treat $8 lattes as inconsequential spending.
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yeah im sure the broke servers that cant figure out how to make a living in the wealthiest period of human history will do really well while those that take opportunities and prosper will just fall apart.
followed by
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While the bankchads have all already divided the post collapse world into warlord fiefdoms and are in the process of consolidating power.
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kinda feels that way tbh
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"My friends are more successful than me, that makes them bad people. They should be poor and miserable like I am."
Literal crab bucket mentality.
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Welcome to reddit. If i had to sum up a universal reddit trait it’s hating success and HATING good advice.
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Rent and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Incidentally, given that rDrama.net is a proud, gay website where straggots fear to tread, we don't have nearly enough musical theatre Marseys.
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What a dumb take. Your friends should get shitty jobs or they are shitty people? You can 100 percent participate in capitalism while finding it abhorrent. If you have a job you're just as much of a capitalist as your friends are.:
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So, literally anyone with a job?:
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I wouldn't worry about it at all since the entire fiat monetary system is on the verge of a total collapse.:
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parties:
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Just a reminder if you have an unbanned reddit account and aren't upmarseying braindead takes you're a loser and not a verified radical centrist
The fact some of these linked comments have no upmarseys makes me disappointed in carps website
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I mean I wouldn't hang out with those money types either. They seem miserable, but that's their fault not capitalism's
considering this creature grew up in the same circumstances as her PoF (person of funds) friends and failed that hard, though...
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