Been thinking that dealing with being a member of the overproduced elite once you recognize that that’s what you are, is the central middle-class challenge today. Naive blue collar larping is just a cope, but working with atoms in a pre-textual way is a part of the answer.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1312951896064155648 …
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You begin to actually face and solve a problem when you first say “I’m not paying for that.” Saint types tend to conflate “this outcome was inevitable given our past failings” with “we must fully reckon with and pay for this before moving forward with a clean balance sheet”
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Sinners otoh, skip straight from “I’m not paying for that” to “who can I stick with the bill.” At some level they accept that the bill must be paid by *someone*. Engineering I think begins with the thought, “can I make hack it so nobody has to pay the full price?”
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