Don’t use them as props in your arguments then and speak about them with compassion and how to raise them up then.

To give you some context on at least one downvote.

I have been homeless like proper homeless sleeping on a metal chair with a backpack outside my college for weeks using the gym to shower and working 3 jobs to afford the basic idea of the American dream of going to college and nothing else. I spent most of my childhood hungry as my incubator spent all money on her vices.

I ended up fleeing the country via a work program that basically made me an indentured servant for a few years while I tried to get my life together in a way where I didn’t want it to end anymore.

You speak for a lot of people you don’t know when you say sweeping statements about the audience to who you are talking to.
But also with that said I bet most of the down votes are still people who have not lived a life nearly that rough and think that renting is an equal level of poor and don’t want to hear it.

You set up your own strawman and then knocked it down. You aren’t worth responding to.

Chicken or the egg? Do we stop labeling people and start working on their shared and singular problems to become inclusive or do we need to become inclusive first to start being able to see people as people and work on their shared and singular problems?

I think the answer is we just start doing it anyways. And don’t wait for reality to shift to some easier form to do things we should.

And I know that people compare themselves to each other all the time, I have done it and will do it to but now I try to do it when seeing if they are content only. If they have more in their bowl than me it’s not my concern, I am trying to focus on those that don’t have enough. It’s a pipe dream that labeling people makes them better at coping. People still need the compassion of others.

Chicken or the egg do we wait for a compassionate society to start being compassionate ourselves?

That has nothing to do with labels. That creates group think and tribes.

Knowledge is not labels on people.

Sure. If people had taken the time to work with you and find your issues and solve them you would have had it better.

That doesn’t require the label it just makes it easier to look up the information for it and see what others have done.

The association of the label doesn’t help you it would be people helping you. Labeling the pain can help you recognize it, labeling the person puts them in a group.

You also have no idea how the part would be if it was different because it wasn’t lived. It’s an easy fantasy rather than living in the present. You would have likely still struggled just differently. So what do we do now for those that still are? Do we label them or are we helping them?

Not the same and that kind of animosity for the first world problems of not being happy or productive enough to be able to exist in the modern society without the assistance of drugs does not require me to praise the practice.

I’m not suggesting people make it harder on themselves but there were much bigger issues in just the recent past and coming in the future to not add more to that. But there are people struggling with removed limbs or malformed ones from birth who could use more accomodations, than those who think their life isn’t as easy as someone else’s who has more money than them.

In other words. What a terrible response.

It’s funny how a month ago people in Lemmy were all bragging about every little piece of science being important to further understanding the world and that Republicans canning even a single minor study could lower our ability to come up with new things.

And here’s a bunch of people treating this like it’s garbage and are above it.

Hypocrites as always. Never change.

Ok then that’s something you want to work on and I hope you can get past it but that’s not a out other people.

Then don’t let others make you feel inadequate for being you.

It’s an easy scapegoat in a world that wants more from them than they can provide. It makes you compare yourself constantly to the best performers and tells you that you are not enough and then offers a thought that drugging yourself just right would make you as happy and successful as you believe you deserve to be for trying so hard.

It’s a shame life doesn’t care and it’s not what life is about.

Not that people shouldn’t be able to get help when they have legitimate issues but we could be a lot more welcoming on those differences between each other with a different culture but that requires changing yourself and others in a way that is likely not possible and the drugs are easier.

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Yeah nobody else is mentally well either and we all have our coping mechanisms for this world.

This is basically keeping up with the Jones’s but using “happiness” as a grading curve for your life.

People are not superheroes or magical beings above all the downs we share. Hell most of the upper class are busy abusing drugs just as much from their burnout and depression. But someone might have been more social and smart and thus you are somehow less than them? Meh. And Nah.

You know when enough of society agrees on the whole light things, or forgetting things, or about noises…

Maybe, just maybe… Being a hyper focused machine used for mass productivity in a country designed around stripping as much value from your existence as possible…

That it maybe is a common position and the drugs to “equal” yourself to others is just a lie to make you think that is the normal way for people to live?

Most people aren’t giving 150% because they don’t think about anything they do and just hope for the best and rely on connections and luck to get through.

Pretty sure we as a society should be trying to accommodate other people and help them as they need to be needed instead of demanding conformity to a position we are just pretending is the normal. But hey when the drugs are this good…

Life is a constant struggle and was for basically all of our ancestors.

If you think life is only happy and free of inner conflict then that’s only because the drugs.

Is it? Why does having a label for people treating you differently help with that? It mostly just turns into an excuse for others to use thank being a helpful label.

I think labels seem progressive and helpful but are mostly used to further divide people and make in and out groups.

If you know you struggle with people being told that it’s your fault cause you are genetically different somehow even though it seems ever so common and spectrum based does nothing to help you deal with people.

This seems like a pretty important job to not just shuffle the person doing it into an old folks home! Like come on!
Literally a limited number per state. Even an midmanager would get called for running out of PTO way before then.

People used to buy land and build a house on it and that was the inheritance. It could then be cut into smaller parcels and new homes built for the kids if they stayed close.
And of course if you were wealthy it was businesses and trust funds which still occurs a lot these days.

The middle class was partially stripped of its wealth by each generation giving less to the next

Yeah they should be allowed to burn everything they ever touched and take it with them when they go. Or maybe we even build giant stone triangles for them and put all their stuff in there with them.

Them getting to spend all the money scraped from the rest of the world and leaving a bleaker version behind us so justified. They put in all that effort and who cares about next generations anyways.

Common phrase of course:
“Cut down all the trees you planted in life so that nobody but you can ever sit beneath it’s shade.”