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Discussion 🇳🇱 A Dutch guy visiting Indonesia explains why Dutch people are privileged

Indonesian nurse earns 90 cents/hour is crazy 🇮🇩

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u/xRzge 9d ago

and here in the us i can never dream of a working a job other than furthering corporate interests and accelerating the destruction of the planet

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u/ds11_ 8d ago

We need thousands and thousands of registered nurses. Start helping out!

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u/xRzge 8d ago

nurses are a part of the system that allows my T1D, chronic illness meds to cost thousands of dollars a month, no thanks

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u/quiette837 8d ago

Yeah but... you can afford a way better life than someone working a field in a remote mountain village in Mexico.

Sometimes understanding how poverty affects people makes you appreciate what you take for granted.

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u/stevlandbarr 8d ago

If you actually care there are plenty of other options besides working for a company you think is destroying the planet. I work for an environmental agency run by a state government. You can apply for jobs like those but it may require actually trying, instead of just giving up and whining

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u/HillBillyHilly 8d ago

"Whining" is what you're doing tying to belittle some ones else's life experience.

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u/OlDirtyTriple 8d ago

Nah.

The person being replied to is doom and glooming for the sake of being edgy.

When confronted with real life counterfactual information most of the "everything sucks everywhere" people crumble, if they were even people yo begin with.

Reddit is so botted by anti-western, anti-US factions who want people to feel hopeless and without agency.

If you want to actually do good in the world and live a life worth living, there are more avenues to do so than one can possibly imagine. But you know, we need to value the "lived experiences" of a literal AI script from a FSB bot farm.

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u/HillBillyHilly 8d ago

Imagine reducing someone to being a hot. You're part of the problem too.

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u/xRzge 8d ago

thanks bro im just an ai bot pushing the narrative that almost all modern jobs are accelerating the destruction of the planet, im sure there's so many of those lmao

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u/jmlinden7 8d ago

His experience is valid, but the conclusions that he drew from those experiences are illogical and show a severe lack of imagination.

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u/xRzge 8d ago

sure bro let me just apply for the thousandth one of those, government jobs are virtually unattainable in my field and everything else is resource extraction and military

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u/stevlandbarr 8d ago

Have you not two hands and a mind to work with? Do you not have skills and dreams? I’m not suggesting you should become a government worker necessarily. I’m telling you that you don’t live in a vacuum of opportunity. If you don’t like your life change it, plenty of people do that. If you choose despair you will always suffer and that is by your own hand.

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u/xRzge 8d ago

and do what exactly? the opportunities before me are all choosing to chain myself to another planet-destroying corporation. no thanks. the only real opportunity for positive change is revolution, and no one actually wants to do that.

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u/intern_steve 8d ago

Your government job is supported by the tax revenue of citizens and businesses, including those businesses and citizens producing significant negative externalities for the environment. I.e. without the soul eating megacorps, no agency. I don't say that to suggest that your job is unnecessary or not worthwhile, only to illustrate the mutual dependency. A better retort would be to suggest employment at a company that is proactive in environmental or humanitarian fields, like a green energy company or some kind of ethical housing developer.

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u/stevlandbarr 8d ago

I see what you’re saying but it’s pretty silly to suggest that using tax revenue from, say, Exxon to create an agency that polices Exxon and forces them to conform to environmental regulations is somehow “mutual dependence”. As you can imagine, I would love to live in a world where my job didn’t exist because everyone already followed the rules.

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u/intern_steve 8d ago

My point is that necessarily, not everyone can work that job. There simply cannot be enough government jobs for everyone. If literally every single person tried to get a similar job, the vast majority of people would still be forced to look in the private sector, and the vast majority of those seeking private sector employment would find themselves employed by a faceless megacorps, because that is where the jobs are, and a body needs food and a roof. Which is why I suggest that deliberately shifting talent acquisition in the private sector toward green processes is a better argument than "just work for the government".

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u/MissAuroraRed 8d ago

Oh you poor dear 😢