This meme would have worked a lot better a few years ago. Hell, even a few months ago.
Life is no longer uneventful, the trolly's brakes have been cut and it is on fire, there are clearly people tied to the tracks and the trolley is already rolling over them.
It was supposed to be space travel... It was supposed to be space travel..
So fucking desperate to believe the richest man in the world is secretly miserable, it's pathetic. He cries crocodile tears in a scripted interview and you take that as a "win".
He is. The richest man. In the world. Get that through your head. He's not miserable, he's not regretting his choices. He won and is having the time of his life living consequence free. Tesla stock could drop to zero, he could lose Twitter, and you know what? He'd still be the richest man in the world. SpaceX alone guarantees that.
But sure, you go ahead and pretend the man with more money than God, who can take his private jet to his private yacht and relax whenever he wants, is somehow really sad and depressed because one of his multi-billion dollar companies had their stock temporarily go down by a few percentage points. I'm sure that's a great comfort to you as you struggle to pay rent.
I keep telling myself that I'm doing ok and everything is fine, but at least once a day I suddenly collapse and start quietly sobbing. It usually happens in the shower, but it can happen anytime I have a brief moment alone. Only lasts for about 1 to 5 minutes and then I'm back up doing whatever it was I was doing, but its happening more and more frequently, and it's getting harder to pretend I'm not overwhelmed by everything.
There is so much chaos and uncertainty. When I look at the state of the world, it feels like giving up and screaming incoherently into the void is somehow the most rational response; and that trying to keep going is the real insanity.
If you dump a bucket of water into another bucket from 6ft up, most of it will fall into the other bucket because of gravity. Some will splash out due to the turbulence of the water hitting the bucket.
Gravity and turbulence. We don't call those excuses for why the water winds up where it does, we call them the reasons.
Explaining why things are the way they are isn't making excuses. Panhandling doesn't net you nearly enough to pay for all your basic needs. Shelters often have several issues that make them worse than the streets themselves. Section 8 requires documentation that the homeless often don't have, meetings they can't often get to, and wait lists years long.
Of course that's not always the case, there are people that earn a decent living from begging. There are shelters that are safe and well run. There are areas where Section 8 housing is readily available and easy to apply for. But those are the exceptions. You're focusing on the water that splashed out of the bucket and saying gravity must just be an excuse, because clearly some water made it out.
Also, you are stuck in the 90's and don't have the first clue what homelessness is today. 40-60% of homeless people today have jobs. Let me repeat that with some emphasis:
40-60% OF HOMELESS PEOPLE TODAY HAVE JOBS.
Cost of living has gone up so much that, even with a job, you can find yourself on the street. In the US, there is no longer even a single county where the income from working a full-time, minimum-wage job is more than the monthly cost for a one-bedroom apartment.
If you think the issue of homelessness lies with individuals not working hard enough, rather than a society where working full-time no longer guarantees you housing; well buddy, your morals are utterly fucked.
Then why hasn't everyone who started out with a couple hundred million grown it to over 300 billion? I mean, if it just happens naturally, even to incompetent buffoons, then why don't we see more people with 12 figure net worth's? There's thousands of people that start off in life with access to millions, but less than 2 dozen people have a net worth of over 100 billion.
Gee, I guess there's more to it than just simply being rich.
...You know what I hate? I hate how fucking idiotic people become when they talk about someone they don't like. It's like they don't even stop to think if the insult they're using makes any good damn sense. Musk is a deadbeat, drug addicted, Nazi piece of shit; but it's a such a fucking brain dead take to try to claim he hasn't accomplished anything in business.
Like, Michael Jordan is by all accounts a terrible person. There's lots of things you could say about him, but saying Musk just lucked or coasted his way to the top is like saying Michael Jordan wasn't good at basketball.
Do you not realize that dumbass statements like that actually make things worse? All the boot-licking tech bros who support Musk use opinions like yours as evidence that anyone who criticizes him is a smooth-brained idiot and then they dismiss the actual, legitimate criticisms.
I fucking hate this world. I'm getting to a point where I just wish everything would burn to the ground because everyone on both side of everything is just so fucking stupid. Idiot fascists are taking over everything and those on the other side just sound like whiny children because they're too fucking stupid to realize that just because someone is bad, doesn't mean literally ever bad quality can be attributed to them.
Unless that movie is Snatch.