AUTISTICS... Down About Life Success? (WATCH THIS)

[@shimrrashai-rc8fq]

The thing about "achieving it on your own time" is very important because so much messaging these days is about doing everything by younger and younger ages - and yet, because you have less and less wisdom/experience generally at those ages, whether that actually happens for you becomes more and more a function of luck and chance.

[@humanBonsai]

The market only rewards merit if you are really damn lucky. It is not a merit selection machine. That is pure ideology and a product of neoliberalal ideology. The market most commonly rewards those who have resources. Even the idea that high sales of your commodity is a measure of merit is wishful thinking. It is merely a measure of sales. It is also unwise to view popularity as a measure of merit. If you do this and your venture fails then you will view yourself as a failure, instead of thinking ‘damn that business idea wasn’t popular’.

[@oleonard7319]

beyond, that a lot of "successful businesses", are fundamentally corrupt. They get ahead by breaking the law then bribe their way out the consequences

[@shimrrashai-rc8fq]

If it truly rewarded merit to a high degree of accuracy, we'd have a lot less useless throwaway junk out there :D Though to be fair, maybe that means it measures your _sales_ merit. But a lot of sales tends to involve an element of deceit or manipulation, even if not blatantly so. So is that type of merit a good one to not only reward, but _punish_ its lack with the serious costs that failure in it entails? And not only that, but how much that getting wealthy in it does indeed depend on your ability to step on other little Peeps who'd probably love to be wealthy themselves, just like you?

[@humanBonsai]

Shimrra Shai you are on point and totally correct. I think a lot of this Self Improvement ideology is ultimately just neoliberal ideology dressed up as empowerment philosophy. What it hides is that commodity capitalism divides and disempowers people as their lives become commodified and alienated, while environmental resources are depleted in the perpetual drive for ever increasing production and consumption. Just my take

[@TheNmv2728]

A lot of NT live with their parents in the US. I'm from Michigan. I would have let my kids stay with me to help them

[@micheals1992]

I sure managers roles in companies must advertise as "professional bully wanted"