I've seen this a lot in my life. People who are never going to be hungry or will never end up homeless treat the prospect of giving anyone else any amount of money as if it would bankrupt them. People in your life who are poor or have been poor, will just help you
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I try not to be that guy, but I have a lot of friends like this (will literally venmo charge you in the moment). It just makes the relationship feel transactional.
Just think of that $2.82 venmo request as the cost of finding out they arent worth spending time with.
I am really really really really really really really bad with money and wish I had more just so I could buy things for people to make them happy
I"ve only ever wanted to make other people happy and feel bad that I don't have the power to do so for more people
I was trying to get rid of an old nes a year or so ago and offered it to a coworker, he asked how much I wanted for it and I just told him to buy me lunch some time.
Months go by and I've totally forgotten and we're getting lunch and he's like "nah this one is on me for the NES".
I hate venmo culture so much, just have vague favors and stop counting the pennies for the love of god.
just have vague favors
The poorest people I know have always been the most generous.
It's a damn near universal constant that rich people are greedy assholes.
Sometimes you get some that are cool people who inherited a bunch of money but in general they're the scum of the earth.
Talk to any server and they'll tell you the people who roll up in fancy cars with watches worth more than a mortgage are the ones doing the math to leave exactly 12% while it's the guys on lunch break from a job site that'll leave a $10 on a $25 ticket.
Wait what is that $450k job I need that
had a friend of a friend offer me and my two friends a slice of pizza. before we could even finish bro pulled out the calculator app on his iphone 15 to determine we all needed to add him on venmo to send 94 cents each. next time i saw him he talked about taking cruise ships every summer
you guys should hit him with hammers
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In for a penny, in for a pounding
Who in the hell is making $450k per year as a software developer
Probably only if you are a principle engineer at FAANG and not even these days since the tech crash. But mrah someone who is ultimately also just a laborer made more money than me so they’re the problem.
But mrah someone who is ultimately also just a laborer made more money than me so they’re the problem
If we're friends that regularly hang out and they ask me to cover half of the 10 dollar Uber ride that they called or my 1 beer at the bar then yes, they're the problem
No surprise, the best tech friends I've had we never send money to each other unless it's in the order of hundreds. Anything else we just go back and forth on
All my tech friends who were dead set on going even for everything, even the ones that have offered to pay me 2 dollars for the movie popcorn that I bought, have all turned out to be neoliberals that don't care about anybody outside of their friend groups or tech/finance social circles
Find better friends? I don’t understand what them being tech people has anything to do with them being assholes. To be clear, what you’re describing is for sure asshole behavior. I have worked in relatively high paying and low paying jobs and have seen all types in all positions. Some people just suck
I don’t understand what them being tech people has anything to do with them being assholes
The tweet is just poking fun at the fact that the average tech bro is way more likely to be douchey
Can you stop doing the "akschually not ALL tech people" thing?
Not interested in a flame war but I would describe that as an inaccurate characterization of what I was saying. all I said is you’re mad at the wrong people
How am I mad at the wrong people? "Wealthy" people who do this suck and are assholes
You can actually be mad at the ruling class AND people who are working class if they're shitty. You don't get a pass on being an unreasonably selfish and greedy person just because you're a laborer lmao
This silicon valley techbro would be a class traitor during the revolution, and on some level, they know it, but are too cowardly to admit it. That's why they're pushing this #notalltechbros thing so hard.
Class traitors are good. I can't think of a successful revolution that wasn't full of them.
Why would they be "too cowardly to admit" being a good thing? Why are we so hostile to the same good thing that's featured prominently in every successful revolution? This is leaning towards ultraleftism.
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Everything is ultra-leftism to you, either that, or "stuff that won't build a mass-movement" when it's against the crackers. I don't think you have any ground to label what's good and bad to revolution anymore. I for one, am not putting my faith in fairweather fence-sitters when the last time we saw one of any prominence was a hundred years ago.
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Because they're a working class person who will side with the bourgeoisie. They aren't petit bourgeoisie, they use their own labour. Class traitors can go in either direction. Working class people can be convinced to work against their own best interests.