But they don’t call it gambling, they call it venture capital investing.
"I’m not a greedy fuck, I’m exercising rational self-interest "
"I’m not a practicing sociopath, It’s just business."
"I’m not firing the workers who made my business successful in the first place to pocket even more money faster, I’m curtailing redundancies to maximize efficiency."
"I’m not exploiting human being’s labor solely to benefit myself beyond all reason, capitalism is voluntary and they can die in any gutter they choose to instead, I’m a benevolent job creator."
We’re living an Orwellian nightmare, and most don’t even realize it. The reason the poor don’t just start their own cooperatives is because the central purpose of capitalism is to keep them perpetuity separated from the capital means to do so, and it works.
The creepiest part is how, if you look back at the late 19th and early 20th Century visions of the future, even the most ardent capitalist fanboys were fully convinced that technology would deliver a post-market-economy world, some time between the 1960s and the 2060s.
As far as technology goes, we are absolutely on target to make that prediction come true. We’re literally approaching the point where automation will physically be able to do almost 100 percent of the work needed to produce food, necessities, and even luxuries. But instead of allowing people to do less labor and have more free time, more security, longer lifespans, less pain of all kinds…we’re literally going to roll the human experience back to the horrors of the Victorian age, and worse.
All that automated production capacity will be ploughed into stacking up more and more trillions of dollars, in the dusty and physically unspendable accounts of the hyper-mega-ultra-wealthy.
The billions of peasants will literally starve, because there won’t even be Victorian-style workhouses, as there will be no work left to do. All while, to reiterate the point, the predators will be sitting on so much money that they could never possibly spend it.
My mom used to say: it’s not gambling if the state covers your loses
90% of gamblers quit before they win big
Thanks, that gives me hope. Just a few more rounds tonight
Don’t forget exploitation.
Honestly though, if you don’t take risks in life, you get nothing.
Leave your comfy job for better pay. Ask that person out. Stuff like that.
It is true you have to take risks, but wouldnt say higher payment is better than comfy job, as long as the comfy job gives you “enough” money. But enough money is the problem xD
Leave your comfy job for better pay.
Abso-fucking-lutely not. I’ve had horrible jobs that have paid significantly more than comfy jobs. The stress and misery is not worth the extra pay. At all.
Why would I want to be uncomfortable 40 hours a week?
Very true!
Like many gamblers, dude here is about to run out of platforms and fall hard.
Or he can stop and coast for the rest of his life
It’s cropped in a weird way. Guy on the left is on his way to set those down ahead so these gambling bricks have a pillar and the shit stain on the right never has to see them, his bricks have always been just as solid as they are now.
Its not wrong, but its not only a rich people thing.
- Spending time getting education, whether college or trade school, is a gamble. You’re putting precious time and money into a body of knowledge/skill that you’re betting will not only break even, but profit.
- Specializing in THING X vs. THING Y is a gamble. You may have chose the new hotness skill and be very much in demand, or you may have chosen the dead end skill or a skill that there is a glut in the number of people that can do it meaning low demand for you.
- Taking on a difficult job or employer, but getting to work on things that improve you with your skill is a gamble. The boss could suck enough that even though the possible outcome is great, the boss sabotages it.
- Choosing to pivot once you have one set of skills to gain an additional set is a gamble. You may have been better off staying on one course and keep progressing higher vs becoming someone with multiple sets of intersecting skills.
The analogy I always liked was:
Success is like a carnival dart game.
If you’re poor you probably don’t even get a chance to play. Maybe once with some help from friends and family. But even then, the odds are still not good.
If you’re middle class you can afford a throw or two, significantly increasing the odds of success.
If you’re rich you can afford to throw as many darts as you want until you succeed.
If you’re attractive and flirt with the carny, they’ll probably give you a prize without playing, or at least upgrade you to a better prize for barely hitting the wall. Then you can brag to other people how easy it is to win and they just need to try harder.
Step 1) Be Attractive.
Step 2) Don’t be Unattractive.
(Attractiveness is subjective)
Step 3) Have money.
Step 4) Don’t not have money.
LOL, just commented much the same but your post is far better. Well said.
You forgot the part were the successful people pop out of their mother’s vagina already in a much higher platform than the rest (granted, it would probably require a NSFW tag).
How to fuel the c/memes dumpster fire.
Who is this smiley guy in the gambling memes
Not me
How funny that this post appeared right above this other related post:
Close but it’s actually
Gamble Trillion dollar Gov bailout GambleGamble
Parents money > gamble > gov bailout > gamble > wage theft > gamble
Anyone know where these drawings come from?
Artists
“Gamble” is a funny word for “other people’s backs.”
I guess that’s why I’m not successful.
I bet this won’t work.
How much?
Bitcoin
