“It doesn’t matter if you have degrees at all! They don’t care!”
-Liberal going through her job hunt for two years
How do we gently tell her the issue with credentialism in the real world? 😂✨🌈
Yesterday during a Zoom meeting, something awkward happened.
We were onboarding a new remote worker.
The HR casually said:
“Sometimes the team stays online late when things get busy.”
The new lady asked,
“Late as in overtime… or late as in unpaid?”
The whole call went quiet.
Later HR started talking about growth opportunities.
She asked again,
“Does growth here mean salary growth… or just more work?”
Another silence.
I was on that call and it hit me.
People say Gen Z is lazy, but I think they are bold.
But what I saw yesterday didn’t look like laziness.
It looked like a generation that watched the previous one get overworked, underpaid, and easily replaced.
So now they ask the questions before the work starts.
And honestly…
most companies aren’t used to employees asking those questions out loud.
Maybe Gen Z isn’t lazy.
Maybe they just refuse to play the same game.
We were in the middle of the most exhausting, financially terrifying month of our lives. My business was undergoing a massive, stressful pivot, and he was working brutal overtime at his job to cover the financial gap.
A friend of mine stopped by to drop something off. She walked into our apartment and found us sitting on opposite ends of the couch in complete silence, both wearing sweatpants, staring blankly at the wall and eating takeout straight from the plastic containers.
She gave us a pitying look. "You guys don't even seem like a couple right now. Where's the romance? Who is spoiling who? You guys just look like two roommates trying to survive."
I looked at her, and then I looked at him.
What she didn't see was the silent, flawless ecosystem we had built over the last 30 days to keep each other from drowning. She didn’t see that when I was completely paralyzed by administrative anxiety on Tuesday, he quietly took my laptop, sorted my emails, and mapped out my schedule so I could breathe. And she didn't see that when his body finally gave out from a 14-hour shift on Thursday, I didn't demand he be a stoic provider, I forced him into bed, handled the house, the noise, and the logistics, and stood guard so he could sleep completely undisturbed for an entire day.
The internet is absolutely obsessed with the "prize" dynamic. We are constantly debating who should be the provider and who should be nurtured, who is the infrastructure and who gets to live the "soft life." We are taught to keep a toxic, microscopic scorecard to ensure we aren't doing 1% more than our partner.
But a real, lifelong partnership doesn't have a designated hero and a designated dependent. It is a completely fluid exchange of weight.
I realized right then: You don't build a 50-year marriage by deciding who gets the privilege of being carried. You build it by seamlessly passing the heavy end of the couch back and forth so neither of your arms snap. It’s not about one person sacrificing their humanity for the other’s comfort; it’s about two people acting as a synchronized survival system.
“Africans sold Africans” sounds smart until you understand history and realise how retarded that sentiment truly is.
Europe didn’t create slavery because Africans “sold each other.”
Europe created a race-based, profit-driven industrial system.
This argument isn’t history.
It’s deflection.
Johnson & Johnson Was Caught Adding Cancer Causing Carcinogens Into Their Sunscreens.....
The EXACT SAME CANCER That The Company Makes The Majority Of Their Revenue Selling Drugs For....🤨😒😡
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