RonaldDR
Does this Softbank/WeWork unraveling make you nervous about the whole Silicon Valley system unzipping too? (Vote Below)
"Concierges paid minimum wage" … many concierges make immense amounts of money for what they do, and often make more than manager of hotels. Most people don't even realize that with overtime most of the hotel desk clerks make more money than salaried managers at hotels. Not even to mention the hotel porters that run the valet, that make immense amounts of money.
It's all just the intersectionality nonsense of privileged, sheltered navel gazers that have no idea what goes on outside of their university and screens.
I really hope that this intersectionality degeneracy will be killed with fire and relegated to the embarrassing and shameful pile of mass mental abuse and degeneracy that it belongs. One can hope.
The worst part about it all is that it just utterly stultifies the mind like any other abused person exhibits, that can only, e.g., reference anything and everything through what their abuser would want or do. But, that was the point after all, creating abused minds that can only think in subservient and submissive ways. It's sad that that abuse of several generations now was allowed to happen.
The way I see it, maintenance is a function of values and whether one earned what one has; a kind of positive self-fulfilling prophesy. It is why across the board today you can see a crumbling of the maintenance culture at all levels, even if there is clear clustering, from the poor who are given things they don't have to earn anymore and therefore don't maintain anything, to the top ruling class that has never maintained anything and has seen everything, from the most solid castles, to human beings, to ships, to centuries old culture and traditions as totally and utterly disposable if it even slightly stands in their way of achieving their usually megalomanic personal gain; to the common people today that have all manner of things, from phones to telecommunications to television to flight to institutions to cars … literally everything … yet lack any perspective whatsoever on how it was produced, the thousands if not millions of prerequisite steps and failures and attempts it took to produce what they just take for granted.
One that does not know the actual value of something will not and cannot ever understand the notion of maintenance. It's a concept that even the ancients knew, yet we have lost in many, if not most ways as people have lost all manner of sense of value that they don't even value money anymore to such a degree that they don't even think of it as anything but a mindless exercise they engage in to do or acquire the thing that stimulates their primitive impulses, whatever those may be.
I know some people are trying to push a maintenance culture again, by the stick of enforcement, but reality is that it simply will not work as long as the seemingly lasting negation of scarcity holds. Maybe one day people will realize that all the promises to pay or be paid for the work they did, as embodied in debt, is simply not going to be paid nor can be paid, and it all comes crumbling down and a natural order of scarcity is established that will make people want to maintain things, but until that time, this will only get worse with every passing day as you chuck your $1,000 phone aside very year for a new one without even a second thought.
I find it an odd perspective to be both deterministic without realizing the cause of "not having it as easy", while at the same time being provably claiming it is luck to live in the developed world. This is not meant as a personal think, but it is a very schizophrenic or psychotic, inherently detached and disconnected perspective.
The developed world is directly and provably a function of the cultures, values, people, and genetics of the particular group that produced its outcomes; built, iterated, and compounded advancements over many generations, which they passed on from generation to generation to the reborn embodiment of themselves that their children represented. Of course all of that has been utterly dismembered and deconstructed and been disassembled to possibly a mortal degree now, but luck had absolutely nothing to do with any of that; it was all deliberate and conscientious string of centuries and millennia old choices … all now being ruined by people who have been psychologically abused into self-destructive submission.
On a related note, the only reason that "humans won't have it as easy" anymore, is solely due to both the above described psychological abuse that has triggered a self-destructive suicide that will end up destroying thousands of years of human progress, but the very reason people will not have it as good as in the past, is that they have been conned into destroying themselves and continuously making poor decisions that only compound the self-harming spiral.
It is easy to make the mistake to claim that people are far better off today, but reality is that regardless of inevitable improvements that were within the outer bounds of the trajectory, the measure of how well a society is doing, has nothing to do with a quantitative temporal change ratio, but rather with the state of qualities of society, culture, family, relationships, community, and engagement with each; which are ALL majorly rotten and damaged, as essentially every single measure shows.
All of that of course will only get worse, because as yet another team of researchers just showed out of a Danish university, that ALL … not some, not many, not most, but all research into social cohesion and trust shows that they are majorly damaged through multiculturalism and diversity; the very tyrannical imposition that is singularly being forced on only the white people of the developed world which leads to things like the subsequent generation being worse off than the previous.
You know, reality is that in the past of western culture, actually not even that long ago, it was actually the now Christianity that has now been conditioned through pavlovian propaganda to be hated by probably most here, which provided people with a sense of foundation or guide rail so as to not get lost in the cavernous void that atheism leaves behind, which most humans are simply not strong or powerful enough to deal with. No Christian western white person was depressed into suicide before they started abandoning Christianity and the cardinal direction it provides in life.