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Cake day: January 22nd, 2024

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  • Not so much as ragebait but unpopular opinion. I think most Lemmy users are highly paid middle class, tech workers who are out of touch with the genuine grievances and feelings of the working class, whose previous manufacturing jobs were outsourced and left with no alternative. They are then left to compete with just as poor immigrants for artificially-induced resource scarcity. And then Lemmings call them ignorant redneck hillbillies without listening to their lived experience. Sure, many former manufacturing blue collar workers could re-skill, but it is easier said than done, since most people find it hard to re-adjust and prefer to stick with their trade.

    Now that there is huge lay off of tech workers the past year in preference to cheap immigrant labour, and cost-free AI, many Lemmy users are starting to realise and feel the experience of working class who had been left by globalisation.

    I am increasingly becoming socialist. At some point we will all need UBI.












  • It’s just two of my friends who are like this tbh. And don’t get me wrong, even though they are supportive and loyal, they can be emotional and shallow when they are not in the right frame of mind at a given time. All in all, they are kinda conformist and parochial. They are the only ones in our core group who didn’t move out of town or went abroad. I noticed that people who moved out are more open-minded. I only have one friend left whom I can talk to more sincerely, but he is on another side of the country, although we meet up on occasions.