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[–] [email protected] 135 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah because fuck hustle culture.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Even without hustle culture I'm not going to be as motivated as a crackhead looking for a fix because I am not powered by addiction. I'm more motivated to sleep and eat way too much pie so a pothead would be better competition.

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I'll stick with my guiding principle "do whatever crackheads aren't doing".

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So not your mom... yeah that's good advice.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you suggesting crackheads have disposable income for hookers?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't hookers usually charge though?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Why do you want to know?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think crackheads are having sex with my mom... Which means I must have sex with her D:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Curses! Foiled by logic yet again!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

OC has been suspiciously silent since they learned crackheads breathe

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

(Shh don't tell anyone I stole this from another post two minutes ago)

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So you're saying that you should suck a guy's dick in a dark alley for $20 in order to be successful?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

$20? Damn, ain't inflation a bitch?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

You gotta do what you gotta do for $20.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's the right attitude. Maybe someday you can move up to sucking dick in a dark basement instead of the alley

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well yeah I'm gonna let him out hustle me. That bastards on crack.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So then what's stopping you from being on crack?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Greedflation coupled with stagnant wages, probably.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, let's all hustle like crackheads:

"Oh, your job isn't paying enough? Well, have you tried stealing from your family? Your grandma has a social security check coming, right? Oh, your family doesn't talk to you anymore, huh? Well have you tried selling your neighbor's car stereo? What about his propane grill? How about stealing tube socks from Walmart and trying to sell those on the street to anyone who walks by? Still not cutting it, huh? I don't know man, maybe it's time to try sucking some dicks."

These memes seem a lot less clever if you've ever been close to someone whose life got snowed under by addiction, or lived in a neighborhood that has a crack problem. Seeing real crackheads really hustling is pretty fucking bleak. They're not getting ahead. They're not winning. They're burning everything with even a shred of value to service their addiction, including family and personal relationships.

I don't know, maybe it's a very apt metaphor for capitalism, and what our capitalist system expects of us, but I have no desire to trade the people and things that make my life bearable just so I can brag about having a couple extra dollars in the bank.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

That's kind of the point though. If "hustling like a crackhead" wasn't obviously a bad thing, there'd be no joke here.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

LinkedIn vibes

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Work like it's a crippling addiction - it's not as though crackheads have miserable lives, their bodies literally falling apart as their minds figuratively do the same, until they either muster the incredible willpower to endure the intense suffering required to drop the habit, enduring lifelong consequences, or die an early death.

As far as red flags go...

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I don't need anything as much as that crackhead needs crack.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not that addicted to life...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

At least crackheads have some goal in life..

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Instructions unclear, now I’m addicted to crack.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn, people on Lemmy are among the least fun people I've ever seen, based on these comments.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

So you say I should rob a store, or what?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not a fair comparison to us non-drugged people because apparently crack cocaine is quite energizing & makes people highly -driven to get shit done.

Just a buncha normies here wallowing in existential dread & unshakeable procrastination.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

so i should start smoking crack, is what you're saying.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well you know, lemmy knows best?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

This is truly motivational

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

it'd seem like your only move is hustle

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Fuck. That’s dark.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I feel like Gus Johnson could make a video out of this.

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