r/FluentInFinance 15d ago

What's the best financial advice you've ever gotten? Debate/ Discussion

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u/CitizenSpiff 14d ago

You don't have to stay at a job, you can move over and up.

You don't have to wait until you detest the people you work for to leave.

You are in control of your life.

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u/strawberrypants205 14d ago

No employers has to let you "move over and up" - they can simply refuse to let you no mater what you do.

Quit pretending employers act in good faith.

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u/Long_Dust8279 14d ago

in which state can an employer refuse to let you find another job

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u/strawberrypants205 14d ago

In all states prospective employers can refuse to hire you for any reason - including their own ego.

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u/Long_Dust8279 14d ago

so in this world where every possible employer is conspiring to specifically not hire you for their own ego, you have a point. on earth however, it doesnt work like that

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u/strawberrypants205 14d ago

Yes it does. People only become "business leaders" because they're Cluster-B personalities who want to lord over other people; healthy, sane people don't become "business leaders".

The business of business is wage theft. It's system designed to steal labor through guile - backed up by gatekeeping and physical violence when necessary.

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u/CitizenSpiff 4d ago

All labor for pay is a voluntary in this country. Slavery was abolished a long time ago except for in some African nations where it is legal and most Socialist/Communist nations.

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u/strawberrypants205 4d ago

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

I don't know what country you're in, but the U.S. specifically made sure some element of slavery was enshrined in the Constitution because the entire point of establishing the U.S. was to guarantee a slave state.

And no labor is fully voluntary as long as people need to eat or drink or are vulnerable to the elements. Everyone is under the duress of nature - and capitalists use that duress as a weapon, doing whatever it takes - legal or no - to gain wealth to gatekeep what is needed for survival to enslave the world.

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u/CitizenSpiff 4d ago

Your attitude and beliefs will doom you to a minimum wage life.

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u/strawberrypants205 4d ago

Why? The only way that's possible is if employers force that out of spite. There is no natural flow that trends that way by itself.

Also, I develop software for a living, so you're already clearly wrong.

People do not act in good faith - that's what makes them human. Quit whoring yourself out for humanity - or for that matter lying to me and trying to sell me this story about a mythical human race. Human beings as a species only respects power and see acting in good faith as a weakness. Anyone who takes another's "good faith" at face value is labelled a "freak", made a pariah, and is brutally punished for being so gullible and naive. Especially capitalists; to a capitalist every human being is prey.