alt Hacker NewsI'm personally more concerned by the entitled goobers who think it's perfectly reasonable to feed the hardworking majority into a woodchipper if it multiplies the money in their brokerage account. Those are a structural problem, unlike kids who need to learn and will be taught.
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It's a strange critique to personify a structural problem in this way. It neither holds any individual accountable for their actions, nor points towards a better structure.
OK.
What do you think about someone who gets a job, doesn't like it, then expects the employer to give them a different one?
> Those are a structural problem, unlike kids who need to learn.
Needing to learn is the definition of a structural economic problem.
Would be nice if we lived in a world where if you were getting "[fed] into a woodchipper" you could ... oh I don't know ... QUIT! At will employment. You're free to go and live your life how you see fit. Well, at least until we give the power back to the know-better do-good commissars and bureaucrats who then tell us everything we can and can't do for our entire existences.
> I'm personally more concerned by...
I wasn't trying to imply any priority or ordering to concerns or suggest that one group of people was worse than another.
I'm simply relating something I've observed through experience.
Regardless of what you believe about how society should be structured, it's a real problem to be unaware of the realities of how jobs and labor work.