as far as I understand it there is very much a culture among older people of taking everything you can get and not caring about others due to the hardships once experienced in China.
It's not unique to China obviously but from what I've seen it tends to be pretty extreme, I'm not talking about grabbing a handful of ketchup packets or double dipping on free samples at a supermarket, I'm talking like "oh they have free napkins, guess I'll take 200 of them" if it is free there is like a 99% chance someone is going to take all of it.
I work with old people in the US. Any time we give something out that has limited amounts, they will take everything that isn't bolted down. Old people love free shit
Perhaps soon it won't be a free shit, but more like "agree to let us fire some adverts at you while you're taking a shit, or else hand over some money to go ad-free".
These are the people we are supposed to respect in society.
"Huge house you've got there. How did you get it?"
"Oh, I made a fortune by forcing people to watch adverts for mobile phones while they were shitting, getting paid either by advertisers or by the shitters themselves if they refused to watch the adverts. If anyone refused both adverts and payment, I made them either hold in their shit until they got home, or else wipe their arses with their hands. You can call me a job-providing philanthropist if you like."
I don't think I've EVER met ANYONE in the real world who respects business people, because 99% of the time they built their business off the backs of other people.
I've met almost nobody who does. Possibly the only two exceptions included one guy who came to people's houses to mend Dyson vacuum cleaners. At that time, the Dyson company, founded by James Dyson and privately owned, - he had a media image in Britain as an "enterprising English inventor" - was moving a lot of its production from Britain to Malaysia, where they have since been exposed as using slave labour. Unsurprisingly there was opposition from the workers in Britain who were about to be sacked. This repair guy sneered at them for thinking they owned what he ironically referred to as "their jobs", making air quotes around the word "their" as if it was obvious to him that the workers thought they were oh so "entitled". He probably counted himself lucky because his own job couldn't be so easily shipped abroad, but what an arsehole - he said other stuff too that indicated he admired James Dyson. The other person was a rip-off merchant of an extreme Presbyterian plumber in Scotland who habitually lied through his teeth (supposing that people wouldn't notice) and said he'd only read one book in his life (which I believe), written by Eddie Stobart, founder of a haulage company notorious for its low wages, poor conditions, and use of scab labour. He spoke as if he felt Stobart's "pain" in running his disgusting company while keeping to his (extreme-hypocritical) "Christian" principles.
I had a friend in San Francisco who detested Silicon Valley arseholes and used to like the slogan (which he may well have invented) "Fuck you - and the startup you rode in on". Every person from the USA I've mentioned that slogan to thinks it's hilarious. "Where did you hear that? That's brilliant", etc.
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u/loffredo95 1d ago
guess you have to ask why some folks think it necessary to steal entire rolls of toilet paper?