funny complainypants comments on Reddit front page

[johndoe]

https://www.reddit.com/r/MurderedByWords/comments/dmth2x/lpt_to_retire_in_this_economy_dont_be_poor/

Nothing earth shattering, but if you enjoy reading whiny comments you might get a kick out of this.

[Morning Glory]

I read the article the thread was referencing, and it was doomsday BS about the market only returning 2% forever after.

[Bloop Bloop]

There are some great subreddits, but a lot of the larger ones are inhabited by 22 year old males living in their parents' basement who are bitter about being left out of society. It's a really toxic atmosphere.

[The_Big_H]

There are some great subreddits, but a lot of the larger ones are inhabited by 22 year old males living in their parents' basement who are bitter about being left out of society. It's a really toxic atmosphere.

I think you just described about 35% of reddit and 90% of 4chan

[SwordGuy]

There are some great subreddits, but a lot of the larger ones are inhabited by 22 year old males living in their parents' basement who are bitter about being left out of society. It's a really toxic atmosphere.

Are you sure they aren't 30 year old males with the maturity of 22 year old males (which means the maturity of a 12 year old girl)?

[johndoe]

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/rkrkml/5000_is_still_out_of_reach_for_many_families/

[jim555]

There are some great subreddits, but a lot of the larger ones are inhabited by 22 year old males living in their parents' basement who are bitter about being left out of society. It's a really toxic atmosphere.

Sounds like /antiwork.  They are waiting on the glorious revolution.  Who is going to do the revolution stuff, that might require work?

[obstinate]

Why revolt when you can post about revolting. Much safer and about as much fun.

[LD_TAndK]

Why revolt when you can post about revolting. Much safer and about as much fun.

has online revolutionary fervor become way more prevalent recently or had I just not been paying attention?

Also oof, this quote:

Exactly. Finally had about 1000 saved up, spend 500 on xmas presents and the very next day I walk outside to find my passenger door window shattered in my 2002 Toyota Avalon because somebody really needed 3 dollars and quarters. $450 dollars to fix.

ITT "Have you tried to stop being poor?"

[ChpBstrd]

Millenials seem to have taken the cynicism of their Gen X parents and turned it into a way of relating to random usernames on the internet, in lieu of having actual friendships.

We now know part of what happens when a majority of people are cynical (plummeting civic engagement, Trumpism, self-centeredness).

What happens when a majority of people are hopeless, and complaints are the type of message that resonates in marketing, politics, entertainment, etc?

[StarBright]

There are some great subreddits, but a lot of the larger ones are inhabited by 22 year old males living in their parents' basement who are bitter about being left out of society. It's a really toxic atmosphere.

Sounds like /antiwork.  They are waiting on the glorious revolution.  Who is going to do the revolution stuff, that might require work?

That sub seems to have evolved a bit in the 6 months or so to some sort of digital/actual organizing and strategizing. I think the antiworkers did solid support work for the Kellogg's strike. And I'm pretty sure the guy that wrote resume program was an antiwork and tiktok-er.   

I check in there every now and then and it has grown from  "work sucks" memes into something else. It has the feeling of what I imagine were consciousness raising groups in the 60s, which really is an important pillar of contemporary activism.

[Log]

I think it is valuable to recognize that the whole FIRE movement is premised on cutting back on the extravagant waste of the typical middle class lifestyle, but the working poor can’t really save their way out of poverty, and the American middle class is shrinking.

There are a lot of complainypants middle class people who could cut way back on spending and solve a lot of their problems themselves. There are also a lot of people who might appear complainypants, but are actually trapped in intergenerational poverty and raising the alarms about how completely screwed our system is. We can laugh at the middle class folks who whine about how they can’t get their shit together and also check our privilege a bit regarding the advantages it takes to get to FIRE. To laugh at the poor from atop piles of cash while the country crumbles isn’t really a good look.

People who want to reduce inequality and increase upward class mobility are our allies in making a world where more people can live fulfilling and happy lives. We can do our part to raise awareness among middle class people that they are complicit in oppressing themselves through vapid consumerism, and also help push our government to enact policies that will stop crushing people under the increasing costs of things like healthcare and higher education.

[ChpBstrd]

I think it is valuable to recognize that the whole FIRE movement is premised on cutting back on the extravagant waste of the typical middle class lifestyle, but the working poor can’t really save their way out of poverty, and the American middle class is shrinking.

There are a lot of complainypants middle class people who could cut way back on spending and solve a lot of their problems themselves. There are also a lot of people who might appear complainypants, but are actually trapped in intergenerational poverty and raising the alarms about how completely screwed our system is. We can laugh at the middle class folks who whine about how they can’t get their shit together and also check our privilege a bit regarding the advantages it takes to get to FIRE. To laugh at the poor from atop piles of cash while the country crumbles isn’t really a good look.

People who want to reduce inequality and increase upward class mobility are our allies in making a world where more people can live fulfilling and happy lives. We can do our part to raise awareness among middle class people that they are complicit in oppressing themselves through vapid consumerism, and also help push our government to enact policies that will stop crushing people under the increasing costs of things like healthcare and higher education.

I agree with all of the above, but also think the absolute worst advice I could give someone trapped in an intergenerational poverty cycle would be the make a habit of complaining about it on the internet. The 2nd worst thing I could tell them is to buy lots of lotto tickets, but because there is at least one-in-a-million chance of them winning, it's only the 2nd worst thing next to developing an attitude of complaining and helplessness. That attitude is correlated with 0% chances of success or contentment.

[eyesonthehorizon]

90% of anything is crap, so I expect some dumb bunk in any forum, but the antiwork subreddit seems to overlap with Reddit's FIRE communities somewhat. They don't seem to object to doing work exactly quite so much as to being exploited under terrible terms of employment (which to be fair represents a sizable portion of all employment, especially low-wage employment, but also including a lot of well-educated capable people - a mass resignation in those groups to seek greener pastures or fewer fences can only be a good thing, I think.) Plenty of users see the title only to chip in with pointless complaining, but there's a current of valuable rebellion against a noxious, miserable status quo that would fit in quite well here.

[brandon4454]

What a circlejerk. The whining on reddit has almost turned me off from the whole website.