The vibe I get from these articles is “see, even losers like you can be successful and independent if you tried just a bit harder”. They also never mentions about how they paid for uni and have no family responsibilities whatsoever. If feel like Citations Needed needs to do a breakdown of these tropes.
Oh totally. I might be reading into this too hard, but people not having to take care of parents, siblings, kids, or comrades is the unspoken entitlement in these stories.
their definition of “success and independence” is also stupid, like imagine calling your economic system “the best possible outcome with no alternative” with all the best modern amenities etc. when you define “success” as being free from it… by not using these modern amenities to save money while wageslaving
I’m definitely not complaining about OP’s intentions, but this kinda thing has gotta be a subset of neoliberal propaganda.
I can only read this article in an extreme cynical manner
The vibe I get from these articles is “see, even losers like you can be successful and independent if you tried just a bit harder”. They also never mentions about how they paid for uni and have no family responsibilities whatsoever. If feel like Citations Needed needs to do a breakdown of these tropes.
There’s corpo dorm mentioned, which combined with rest of content means no family and no social life.
Oh totally. I might be reading into this too hard, but people not having to take care of parents, siblings, kids, or comrades is the unspoken entitlement in these stories.
They kinda already did. It’s old, but Episode 77: Frugality Fables and the Poor-Shaming Grift of Financial Advice Journalism covers a lot of this
Good spot!
That may be the intention, but I think you’d have to be a neolib true believer for the article to read as anything but deeply dystopian
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-77-frugality-fables-and-the-poor-shaming-grift-of-financial-advice-journalism
Good spot!
their definition of “success and independence” is also stupid, like imagine calling your economic system “the best possible outcome with no alternative” with all the best modern amenities etc. when you define “success” as being free from it… by not using these modern amenities to save money while wageslaving
dumb system run by evil morons
That’s more of a horror story until last paragraph.
I thought this was a dunk tank post at first.