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You think people aren’t trying? You think their problem is a lack of motivation? They’re doing a job we’ve deemed important enough to have and you have no idea what they’re going through or how much it demands of them yet you think they deserve shit pay because you don’t respect them. The only reason you treat your kid any differently is because you know them personally but you can’t extend that to a stranger because you’re broken. I can’t fix you and I don’t know what can, but I guess empathy just doesn’t come stock in everyone.
You dont know anything about me. I founded an outreach charity for street kids at risk thats been running for 30 years. We have helped hundreds of kids out of addiction, out of entrapment in sex work, out of poverty and into healthy lifestyles primarily through friendship. Stop projecting your own issues onto others.
In that case then I’m fucking shocked that you’re acting like this. It is incredible to me that you can have this stance while supposedly being an otherwise active and compassionate member of the community.
Take that energy and direct into not being a huge fucking asshole to underpaid retail workers. You act all pretentious when I don’t know you while assuming that you know everything about these “unmotivated” people who are just trying to pay rent. I may not know you but I am absolutely correct that, at the moment at least, you’re being a real shithead.
Do better.
Youre the massively judgmental one. I never degraded anyone, but you're here calling me a shithead. Hmm... which one of us is judgmental?
You’re literally saying that people could be having a better life if they wanted it bad enough, and thereby saying loud and clear that people who are having a bad life clearly just don’t want it bad enough. Immigrants are treated pretty badly and not paid nearly well enough, and you’re being a real ass for using their desperation and shitty situations as justification for invalidating Canadians’ struggles.
You’re also saying that “no one is stopping anyone from upgrading their education” while clearly not understanding at all what that takes, especially if you’re coming from a place where you can have a family member pay for everything. Working during school, especially the amount that 2025 demands for you to make ends meet, is crushing and, in many cases, basically impossible. Getting a job after that is also completely fucked for many of its own reasons. I did everything right and am good at my job but getting a job right now, even with experience, is next to impossible as companies refuse to hirer new or intermediate people and try to rely on senior people who will retire with no one to fill their roles.
Everything is so much more fucked than you clearly have even the barest understanding of. You’re still the asshole, bud.