When a narcissism looks at you and tries to imagine what you want as a person, they will quite often think that the one thing you’d most like to be doing is serving them. I mean, what else would be more fulfilling to you, right?
So, when the Biden administration read a study about how psychologically damaging long-term unemployment is, they just assumed this had nothing to do with the stress of wondering if you’ll be able to survive and instead decided that it must be because you just really need to be out there serving the needs of assholes like them, and it certainly didn’t occur to them that the link between “employment” and “having money” is completely artificial. For reference, see this tweet:
Unfortunately, this puts us in a place of nitpicking over what words mean. “Employment” specifically means working for an employer, and almost no one wants this; almost no one wants to be “employed”. We do want to “work” but on things that we feel are important, not what some assholes with their heads fully up their own asses think is important. We end up being employed, though, because the only way to get money most of the time is to be employed, and without money, we’re going to die. Wealthy people don’t have to be employed (by virtue of the fact that they are wealthy) so they never choose to be employed (sometimes they’re employed in name, but not really employed in the sense of having to do what someone else wants them to do).
The facts back up this perspective. When people don’t have to work, they do, in fact, do work — just not the shitty work that wealthy people would like them to be doing. The alternate perspective — that the only way to get people to work is to threaten them with death — has been firmly disproven.
To be fair, maybe the Biden administration is simply lying when it says that it made everyone go back to work in order to save us psychological trauma. Maybe it really just wanted to get the metaphorical firehose of money spraying in the faces of the ultra-rich back up to pressure. In either case, the Biden administration are horrible, shitty people, and that is reflected in how they allocate money, as illustrated by this recent speech that Joe Biden made at the National League of Cities Congressional City Conference (referenced in the above tweet).
We love you, Mr. Biden!
some sucker, or possibly a plant, at Joe Biden’s speech at the National League of Cities Congressional City Conference. How creepy is it that the decided to add this to the transcript?