@Idkfu69 Jesse Ventura paved roads as one of his jobs before becoming governor of Minnesota. A more recent example is AOC, a bartender before a house rep.
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
World Cup teams have mandated “community sessions” that are mainly exclusive ticketed events.
Algeria’s community session was a real one, where the community was invited and now, children in the KC metro get to say they’ve played with international soccer stars.
“We destroyed every social safety net, censored the internet, made everything a crime, raised the prices of everything, kept the wages the same, destroyed unions, & made free speech illegal. Gee why are all zoomers so pessimistic?”
Yeah real fucking mystery
"The pursuit of greater profits cannot justify choices that systematically sacrifice jobs, because the human person is an end, not a means, and the economic order must remain subordinate to human dignity and the common good."
—Pope Leo XIV
One third of Amazon workers are on government assistance because you don’t pay them enough. We are fully subsidizing the labor for your trillion dollar company. You are a parasite.
this is video marketing aimed at investors, "look at how scared your potential future wage slaves are, that's how powerful our Product is". he doesn't code switch for the Poors because there's no need to, it's a commercial for other rich people to watch
oops the house just became 400,000$ 5 years later and it's in a bad area plus all other costs went up.
Imagine that happening in 5 years, ooop, actually it did from 2019-2024