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society is weird. on one hand, they want young people to start working and stop slacking off, but on the other hand, they treat minimum wage employees, the positions most likely to be held by a young person with no experience, as though this is all they were cut out in life for, that they were too stupid for anything else.
at any rate, a lot of the work i do at my job is kinda just sad in reflection. i just enable customers' sense of instant gratification by delivering bullshit they don't need, which is also actively poisoning them and keeping them unhealthy. the whole of capitalist america feels like that, just enabling bad behaviour in the populace, so that they spend (waste) more money to benefit the rich. in this sense, america's problems are because we have relinquished responsibility over the well being of our own selves, and instead let pure and unbridled impulse control us, impulses which are easily manipulated by advertisement, social media, and the news. i feel like people don't really recognize what they're actually doing, like they've almost completely dissociated themselves from the traumatic reality they exist in. it's just sad, and especially in a city, it becomes an attitude oppressive to the soul.
it feels like i do help some people, providing this somewhat reliable service, but it just feels like the vast majority are just taking the piss. i think to myself that it's whatever because it's what is enabling to have these new experiences in the first place, though i also know i'm not going to be doing this forever.
