Dyskolos

Thanks man, your kind words are appreciated. Yet, in the end…who cares? People are still flooding the association with donations and work-force. If i left or not didn’t change anything at all. I couldn’t even leave a nasty virus this time as any damage would’ve just been taken out of the 5%. It’d be great if everyone (or at least >50%?) would never work in such a company/assoc. But a single entity? Futile.

Also I must add, that I could’ve easily done it. First I didn’t even need to work, i just wanted to. And second, here you’re not screwed if you loose your job. So a regular US-American would’ve probably made another choice here. By force. The system sucks and it heavily rewards the dark trinity of psychological disorders. In fact, they’re often a requirement.

But thanks man, either way. Guess how many understood why i left? exactly ,-)

" It’s literally the capitalism’s basic rule. Exploit the weaker, buy low sell high."

…your point being? Capitalism sucks, yeah. Exactly. The scalper is just another asshole partaking in it. Like you and me.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m totally against those fucknuggets. But I would just not asses them with a higher evilness than any other company/person that’s acting in and upon capitalism.

Yeah sure, people are idiots that need to be protected (from themselves). Saying that for decades, but…that’s literally not capitalism’s job. It’s a government’s job. Ours does pretty well, but far from perfect/ideal. Yet that’s not the point.

Someone sells a product for X moneyz. I buy it and sell it for X+Y moneyz. My goal, as a buisiness, is to a) maximize Y and b) maximize the percentage of quantity i can buy of that product, so I alone can dictate the value of Y. If I’m the producer of the item, why should I care for a diverse sellout? Seeing my product so high in demand that people pay triple the street-price is exactly what would get me hard, right?

I get it, i’m a gamer, i am victim of scalpers, i already paid triple for my last GPU and probably will pay even more for the next. But we all seem to love capitalism unless it’s fucking us? that is everything the system is for. fucking the vast majority blind.

Probably the scalper-next-door is a more grasp-able object to project hate upon than faceless bigtech?

And hate both? Yeah sure, i’m anti-capitalist. I hate both. I hate people per se. But that still doesn’t make the scalper worse than any other partaker in a lousy system.

The whole system is an asshole per definition. What’s so special with scalpers? Because hating them is so easy?

Not that I like this shit, but why the hate for scalpers? It’s literally the capitalism’s basic rule. Exploit the weaker, buy low sell high. I mean Apple sells a piece of cloth for 29,99 and people wait in line. Hate the game, not the player.

You’re absolutely totally right. Would I still work, I’d be ashamed if I had to say “I work at google”. Since they removed “don’t be evil” as their motto, that is.

But you also explained it…we all get brainwashed. From indoctrination to outright brainwashing. Daily, every where. And if you dare to question something, you’re suddenly alone. One sane in a herd of insane? Must be me,they can’t ALL be wrong,right?..RIGHT?

Tiny story: when I still worked, one job was at a very highly deemed top association that stood for curing cancer. Or helping people with it, or doing studies, paying studies, you name it. Sounded awesome. I was admin and had access to everything. I quit 6 months later, I couldn’t take it anymore.

-a whole floor with lawyers to legally fuck people out of their money and to fend of incoming.

-another floor full of marketing people who did nothing else than quench old (or dying of cancer) people for their inheritance.

-the cellar was full of hundreds of millions worth of inherited stuff, paintings and shit.

-the bosses drove 250k cars, flew multiple times a month to “meetings” (which meant at least 1000 each for food alone, coz it had to be fancy).

-oh right the building was just recently bought, because it was soooo fancy and in front of a large river here (in our small country it’s like US’s central park). It was an 8 figure move. Totally unneeded.

And the yearly spending for curing cancer? 5%. Still a large sum, but it was just an alibi for everything else. And it was probably THE most reputable association here. Last day I ever donated anything. I understand that overhead is needed. But it should be, by definition, kept to a minimum.i wanted to work there for the cause, not to get moneyz.