[a foot race is setup in a stadium, in which a confused green character has to start 100m away from the finish line, while a smug orange character starts 10m away from the finish line]

[orange easily finishes first, and smugly proclaims] Another easy win! I am better than everyone!

[green, on all fours, visibly tired and sweating] Well that was unfair…

[orange, covered in medals and holding a trophy, points at green angrily and scolds them] Get a grip What a sore loser You just hate success!

[yellow watches the race on TV, and rants about it from their sofa] If green wanted to win, he should have worked harder Some people are just allergic to effort Entitled… (?) (?)… millenials Always looking for excuses People need to be taught discipline Immigr… (?) Typical green behavior Should seize opportunities Bootstraps Quitter behavior Green people want to be poor

https://thebad.website/comic/just_work_harder

    • Ethalis@jlai.lu
      173·
      21 hours ago

      So much this.

      "- I hate the fact that my landlord gets half the money I make without doing anything to earn it!

      -If you think it’s so easy why don’t you buy yourself a flat and rent it?"

      Well because I don’t fucking want to become a bloodsucking leech myself, is that so hard to understand?

      • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world
        17·
        20 hours ago

        Because to buy one I’d need a mortgage and no bank is going to give me one because I didn’t have the chance to build up a good credit rating.

        • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          5 hours ago

          You’re paying 800 a month, so you cant afford to build up enough savings to get a mortgage to convince the bank you can afford 500 a month.

    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
      32·
      19 hours ago

      What else do you think you are supposed to do, when if you run out of time, you are put on a treadmill of work, so you don’t have any time or energy to pivot. I ironically used to think I’m smarter than others, because I know I’m not smart, as confusing as that sounds. I thought “Other’s think they are smart, special, better than everyone, I don’t, and I treat myself as a tool, and think realistically”. Nope, the exceptional people who climb out, have special experience, luck, or better genes. No, I will be buying freedom the very hard way.

      Most people probably had the exact same idea at some point. I thought I could work smarter with automation, that if I can’t be a good trader, I will just develop some app and leverage up to a million users with minimum maintenance of the app. Turns out, those disadvantages do matter just enough.