Comments by "looseycanon" (@looseycanon) on "Andrew Cuomo does 180° on demagoguery when the bill comes due." video.
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No, that is not considered heartless, that is considered out of touch with reality.
Not everyone can be an entrepreneur! And frankly, no one can be truly successful entrepreneur alone. There is set amount of time in a day. There is only so much, which can be done in those hours. What you're saying, by "Get an extra/better job", or "find something better", or "It's all your fault, you're not trying hard enough!", or "you just have too high expectations, compared to what you can provide."... All of these betray a disconnect between your thinking and reality of time being limited resource. You simply have to sleep for nine hours a day, just to make sure, you won't start dropping your act due to exhaustion a few months down the line. To advance, these days you actually need years, not weeks and months, especially in markets, which aren't as flexible as that of the US.
Look at job postings in some fields. Especially in IT, you'll find absolutely unreasonable demands off people. Ads, seemingly targeting graduates and requiring proficiency and years of experience in multiple coding languages, aren't uncommon. Or take me for example, I, as I stated before elsewhere, am an accountant in search of a job. I happen to also be autistic, which mean's in Czechia, where I live, I can't hold a driver's license (it's outright illegal). Yet, over fifty percent of job listings for my field demand it, regardless of me being able to do literally everything from a PC at home. Where and when are we supposed to gain the documents/knowledge/experience, to fulfill such job requirements only to receive an interview invite. And then we have to impress someone, who doesn't know anything about our field, yet he/she is the gatekeeper. This is the way people get hired and this is a systemic problem, which conservatives tend to overlook, why? Simple, it plays in to their hand and thus they don't want things to change. How are we supposed to find something better, if the system is set to preserve those, who already have everything actually necessary and thus can justify ridiculous demands, sometimes completely disconnected with the work they demand be done. Simple, this has to fall apart eventually, it only gloriously s**ks to live in the interim, which can take decades to pass.
In the eighties and nineties, a guy out of school could come to a factory, ask for a field relevant job and he would get it. Now? A year long selection process, resulting in nobody hired and lost contracts, and employers whining about the quality of workers in the market. They usually start with "it's your fault, you don't get paid enough as a full time janitor, to be able to go to even a free university. Get a degree in this ridiculously specific field and I might hire you. I won't give you a raise during your studies and I won't give you the time off for lectures.". Yes, people, who sound amazingly similarly to you.
That's not heartless, that's just completely out of touch with reality.
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