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    1 year ago

    Wait till you learn that you can be self employed outside of sex work.

    Yes, the homeless people trying to sell me trinkets at the intersection certainly seems to prove your point.

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      1 year ago

      The only self employed people you can think of are homeless dudes selling trinkets and prostitutes?

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        1 year ago

        The vast majority of “self-employed” people are utterly impoverished people doing survival work, Clyde - please tell me you don’t buy into the “entrepreneurship” fairy tales Reagan and Thatcher spooned into your parents’ brains through the telly back in the 80s. If you believed that, you might just as well believe in magic glass slippers that grants royalty.

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          You are confusing being self employed with gig economy bullshit. There are a lot of fields of occupation where being self employed makes sense und gives you more freedom. By the way - I’m talking from own experience being self employed fore quite some time now.

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            There are people living in shacks within a kilometer from where I’m typing this, Clyde… every second person living there has more (so-called) “entrepreneurship” in their big toe than you have in your entire body because they literally have to do it for survival.

            I’m not confusing squat… the only thing you’ve managed to demonstrate here is that you talk from privilege and nothing else.

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              1 year ago

              I like how even you write “entrepreneurship” in quotation marks and ad “so called”, but than dismiss my point completely, that we might not be talking about the same thing. And than you get personal for no reason. Is everything OK, buddy? You need to went some anger and frustration? I would recommend some physical activity - much better than arguing with strangers on the internet.

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                I like how even you write “entrepreneurship” in quotation marks and ad “so called”

                That’s because I view the neoliberal fetishization of “entrepreneurism” no differently than I view the garbage anti-vaxxers and flat-earthers buy into.

                but than dismiss my point completely

                Your “point” was treated in the appropriate manner - your “point” merely revolved around the choice the privileged has when it comes to employment. This makes your “point” utterly irrelevant to this discussion.

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                  1 year ago

                  Ah, to be a angry maximalist teenager again - sorry for bothering you, but that conversations almost feels illegal to me.

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                    1 year ago

                    maximalist

                    I have no idea what “maximalism” is… but I sincerely doubt there’s anything illegal about it.