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Original question by @zachimusprime44@lemmy.world

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[–] zlatiah@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago

The worshipping of the self-made man and entrepreneurship in popular American culture

I think I was just too young and fashionable, maybe I was one of those guys that saw themselves as a "temporarily embarrassed billionaire"... then got old enough to see through the nonsense

[–] TinyLittlePuni@lemmy.world 34 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Google. It was once a good search engine. Now I find myself getting only the most irrelevant results based on my keywords and more often than not an advanced search turns up nothing of value

[–] LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It went downhill when they got rid of search within results, I don't know why they did that

[–] TinyLittlePuni@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Me neither! Really frustrates me when companies remove good features for no apparent reason

They had a reason; money. It's always about money. The worse the results, the more time you have to spend searching for what you want, the more revenue they can generate.

You can usually trace all decisions a company makes, good or bad, back to money.

[–] MostRegularPeople@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Corey Doctorow's podcast Understood: Who broke the internet? does an amazing job of explaining this. It's only like 5 episodes and worth everyone's time.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 29 points 6 days ago

The United States government and the United States citizens.

Growing up I was taught about all these checks and balances. How the government is slow and that's good because it makes sure people get what they really want. Come to find out in just one presidential term, this one guy just executes executive orders left and right and just gets things done.

I thought U.S citizens would vote in their best interests but they would glady vote for a facist who's against their best wishes.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Republicans. When I was a child, slogans like “fiscally responsible”, “family values”, “smaller government “ sounded like good things. Republicans always claimed the moral high ground. But they’ve spent my entire adult life proving it as manipulative bullshit for personal greed and power, holding themselves above the law, the worst in humanity, rising to our current flirt with fascism.

[–] josefo@leminal.space 17 points 6 days ago

vaguely gesturing at everything

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 21 points 6 days ago

America.

And my dad.

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Elon. Turns out he was always a conman and liar.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

At one point, between 2021-2022 I had thought absolutely nothing of him and just thought of him as an eccentric rich person. Even wanted one of his "The Boring Company" flamethrowers because who wouldn't want a flamethrower? Then comes the election and out comes his true colours. Now there's no change in hell I'd support him.

So many people sabotage themselves by being bad people and going mask off.

I thought he was a great guy when he loaned those solar panels to the hospital in Puerto Rico. Then he bought Twitter and started firing employees, banning reporters, blocking the api so researchers couldn't have access. This was the start for me. Jerk has only gotten worse.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Western psychology, and I say this as a former psychologist.

Like so much else, any potential at being a science was bastardized long ago in order to make it an industry focused on getting people productive again instead of focusing on their wellbeing which usually has an inverse relationship to getting them back to work in the short and medium term.

Meanwhile the small population of people that can afford actual psychoanalytic therapy that isn't throwing pills at them and teaching them coping strategies within 3 covered sessions tend to be the reason so many others are miserable.

For the non-wealthy, mental healthcare in the US is a complete and utter scam that is geared to serve others at your expense and shoehorn you right back into the stressors that got you into therapy. If you need help, you're out of luck.

[–] Takapapatapaka@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Law. I was pretty hyped up when i went to university to study it, but the more i learnt on the foundations of it and discovered the people it created, the more i hated it. Now I'm doing completely different things, and i'm glad my parents didn't force me to keep doing it.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago

Capitalism.

[–] Ideonek@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

This is something that bothers me. Every time something like this come up, there is a non-trivial crowd of people saying things like "no shit. In the right circle, everyone known for a long time". Often they come with specific anecdotes that should raise all the red flags.

Well, I had no idea. Not a clue. And it's not like I was not interested. I was fallowing his work, social media... live in general. He was a very close friend with a woman who was vocal about being an abuse victim. Nobody told her?

Even in the power of hindsight, when I was looking for articles or comments from the past, there was not a lot. I found like one, "there is nothing he wouldn't do to lure a goth girl" (paraphrased), that got zero traction.

If there were signs, why did we let that happen? What can I do, not to fall for something like this again?

[–] gozeth@leminal.space 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I took to kindly, although I was not entirely onboard with, the idea of American exceptionalism.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

As in like you support absolute monarchy or dislike neo liberals?

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