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why do some people act like youre an inferior lifeform for wanting to work as a barista or at a grocery store. our lives would collapse without those workers there.

having been there, and lived it, it’s because people are aware that 《customers》(not individually) are pieces of shit and look down on you for having an “inferior” station and treat you thusly. In places where you have the public consumer as a customer (rather than larger ticket but fewer clients) the likelihood of you running into an awful “bad apple” customer increases exponentially.

Then (honestly? this rest of this applies to literally any job anywhere) there’s management bearing down on you… if you give 110% they’ll treat it like 90% and ask for more so it’s easy for a go-getter to burn out. And depending on your luck you’ve got workplace politics. Wish more places were more simply clock-in, do what you’re expected, clock-out, make money.

it is known that hot liquids cool the body (access to air circulation to properly engage human evolutionary advantage of sweat glands required)

广场舞 “plaza dancing” not exactly funny but it’s my favorite

edit: sometimes, depending, it’s seen as a public nuisance teehee

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I don’t think parents are the only scope for children to learn and understand class society… … Additionally, the example of bourgeois parents placing their kids in ivory towers is utilized for explicitly bourgeois means of replicating their class, where their children cannot interact with other classes as equals, but certainly as servants. I’m not agreeing with <separating children from family to raised by state> but that’s a very different thing from <bourgeois class reproduction> you gave as an example

For example, a society that needs days or more to send a message from one place to another simply can’t move as quickly as a society that can instantaneously send a message across a great distance. This makes snap decision-making more common and more valued. It’s strange though because it’s not like this means society changes instantaneously. Rapid movement does not mean rapid change, necessarily, since the superstructure has to catch up to the base.

I was just pondering about this yesterday: We in 2026 are more than twice as far away from 2001 (hi 9/11) as those who convened at the Bandung Conference (1955) was from the end of WWII (1945).

I also think a lot about hurry/urgency (probably has something to do with anxiety, at least a little bit) and not doing enough/not being able to do enough.