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Thread for being a based cheap piece of shit. Share your hottest penny pinching tips, anticonsumerist bias, environmentally dubious upcycling, or any number of ways you get dirty looks for saving every dollar you earn.
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Also get a bidet instead of wiping your ass with just tp. all you need the tp for is to dry up after

>>593
lord is a good cheap cheap brand
i have a lord l6

We use the bones, like those from our rotisserie chicken, to make little dolls, utensils, and decorations.
This saves us on purchasing commercially manufactured products, which are not only more expensive, and worse for the environment, but also of an inferior quality.
Always remember a curse gained, is a curse saved.

>>587
Saving money benefits all classes.

If you're into audio you can get insane deals from retards replacing their good speakers with shitty soundbars.


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What makes you motivated to wake up each week day and begin another days work? Am personally not particularly motivated by things, so am looking for something of another form. Am currently a student more or less dreading and finding it difficult to imagine enjoying most of my life. Am looking for a perspective to stop dreading the future working so much.

Know statistically that most American workers are "very satisfied" with their occupation, but find this confusing. Who would want to work? Suppose someone who rationalized, or someone who earns money by coincidence (their interests and aspirations by happenstance being economically viable). Is there some way out of this?
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>>569
>customer rewards program.
Think you might be avoiding an investment metaphor.

>hardship, people tend to gain more regressive habits and bad affect.
This tends to be true, there is the painfully labeled "post-traumatic growth" though in some (parts of) cases.

>pain and suffering is glorified as virtue.
>"you're young so you didn't suffer much so you don't appreciate or understand".
There is a pride in having worked hard, according to this ideology. The argument would be the reason am unmotivated to work is because haven't experienced this pride. This pride seems to me to be a symptom. Inherent in its function is a sort of non-knowing of what it is.

>>573
>There is a pride in having worked hard, according to this ideology. The argument would be the reason am unmotivated to work is because haven't experienced this pride. This pride seems to me to be a symptom. Inherent in its function is a sort of non-knowing of what it is.

Hard work is not the same as "pain and suffering"

>>600
>Hard work is not the same as "pain and suffering"
Have been hopeful might get some zen from work, just relax and listen to music or books on tape. But at the same time feeling like >>567 at least as a joke.

>>567
This is probably just more psycho stuff. Should probably just ignore.

>>478
>The brain seems to be wired where rewards like this just don't motivate. Being motivated solely by necessity seems like it be just a dreadful, slavish, existence, but it doesn't work for me anyway.

Listen to George Carlin's take on motivation.
He says motivation is troublesome because the people who have it are usually up to no good.

>The people who are motivated are the ones causing all the trouble! Stock swindlers, serial killers, child molesters, religiopolitical conservatives? These people are highly motivated!


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how does one go about getting a job as a carnie? a traveling fair person? a worker who works at one of these? I had a one night stand (well two night) with a chick who did this, so i know it's still a viable thing

how to vaudvillemaxx in 2025?
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>>515
how to get carnie poon, tell us ur secrets bro

Humblebrag thread.

You could invest in a ride and truck it to festivals, otherwise you need connections because I imagine they're petty bourgeois so they wouldn't really hire random people off the street unless they were desperate, maybe you could just try go to a carnival an talk to some carnies

was she hot tho?

lol if youre going to be a petit bourgeois at least get a job that pays well

LeftyPol not beating the allegations made against leftism


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I slam the door. I take these drugs! I go to the mental hospital! I am in the garage. The boat in texas. Getting jumpin in by a bunch of black people. MS gay teen. I slam my head on the table. 4/5/2025

Ok

Schizo

Sounds like a Death Grips song


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/finesse/ general

Tips of stretching the dollar, getting one over on the small business owner, etc

Tips for working to rule/stealing time, finessing free food, side hustles and quick cash, etc without fucking over your fellow worker

I clock in late then clock out early.

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secure yourself a sinecure then do a 2nd job while clocked into your sinecure

>>510
only works for techbros that can get remote jobs


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Seeking good contract language protecting political activity and speech to reduce the risk of getting fired over being a communist or anti-zionist. My workplace is majority anti-zionist Jewish people with a plurality of reds. A handful of zionist and rightoid pricks really hate that fact and keep trying to wield management against us and call in outside zionist orgs for backup because our existence fucks with their messaging that all Jewish people support Israel.
We're in the US and I expect the attempts at purging leftists to get worse in the future. Any good examples of protections we could copy? Also, general suggestions on things to definitely fight to have in our contract are welcome.

To make it more clear: we're unionized and almost done forming the bargaining committee and starting negotiations. There's strong buy-in from members for political protections because even the resist lib types are scared of getting retaliated against these days.

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rape is bad because it's not corrective violence. it's just gooners taking advantage of a sitaution


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Are master's programs really just cash cows like everyone keeps telling me?

Tldr all the arguments I hear against doing one:
>costs too much
>easier admissions process
>bad quality of education
>more debt
>can get a job without one anyways
>mainly used by internationals to game visas
>most jobs dont require it

But, I cant help but feel a lot of this is cope from people that dont have one. It has to help get more interviews easier and the wages are probably higher.

I got an admit into UCLA and feel like I should take it. My undergrad was in a shittier state school and the rep would help me out. But its going to be 40grand and dont know if Im just about to get scammed
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>>351
Only good reason I can think of to have a Master's is if there is a specific job you want to do that requires you to be educated to Master's level. Otherwise, most people I know did it because they were interested in the subject or they just didn't know what the fuck to do after they left uni so they decided to stay on another year or two.

It depends.
Some degrees are absolutely useless unless you at least have a masters. Honestly, just do trades if you don't care about doing anything in particular. I don't really hate the "PMC", but there is a lot of bullshit that comes with the territory. If you just want money without spending years in academia find and don't mind working with your hands that's the route I would go. Even better if you can become a millwright.

I have yet to find a professional Master's degree that is actually useful. MBA? Trash. MPH? Double trash.
The only reason to get a master's is if you want to work towards a PhD and live in academia. The only graduate degrees worth a damn otherwise are medicine, law, dentistry and perhaps engineering.

>>351
OP I am going to be frank with you: Discussions about college degrees on the internet are 99.99% vibes-based and people who have no understanding of the subject think they're qualified to talk out of their ass about it. In particular people who fellate "the trades". It's become a cultural signifier, there's basically no facts involved and even the anecdotes are unreliable at best.
I would speak with an actual counselor and figure out what exactly your future career prospects would look like, and then with that baseline you can do further research from there. Obviously the counselor is part of the university so they wouldn't give an absolutely objective viewpoint, but they would still give you a general idea of what exactly it is you're looking at career-wise.
Is it actually true that you could get a job with the degree you already have? Have you tried to figure that out? You would know better than us. It's your money/debt, your desires, your time.

>>441
>99.99% vibes-based and people who have no understanding of the subject think they're qualified to talk out of their ass about it. In particular people who fellate "the trades". It's become a cultural signifier, there's basically no facts involved and even the anecdotes are unreliable at best.


Bruh, I hear more people fellating college degrees and treating trades as fascist breeding grounds


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Career - job/career advice and other related stuff from a leftist perspective. EX: How to get a job, promotion, skill, switch companies, resume, life hacks, etc.
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>>379
>Anime is fascist

I remember when anime was considered "commie"

>>379
Please go outside

>>64
How did that go?
>>76
> IT support 1st level here for a company
> Am i being turned into a labor aristocrat?
Anon please, the labour aristrocracy is an abused classification. You're just a prole who was lucky enough to get a decent boss
>>77
>>80
Why do all morons think that proletarian, bourgeois and labour aristocrat categories are descriptors of one's side in the class war, instead of being the various factions of society than already exist?
You can have class traitors all over the place, from police to Engels

>>446
>Engels
???

>>451
Famous class traitor


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Im a man and I DO consider myself, really, very manly. But I genuinely suffer daily, or extended angst, because my "material conditions of existence" don't allow me to ,not even TRY OUT FOR, extreme manly lifestyles….
Special unit active-War soldier, SWAT team member\SORT member, or even mma\bluhurt\rugby amateur player. non-violent yet extreme jobs like Underwater Welder, altitude rescue\medicine missions. etc
WTF Am I supposed to do? i changed and suited my whole lifestyle to be manlier: diet, sleep pattern, exercise type, so on.
>inb4 being a rEAl Man is about being a (((householder)))
No. Im Celibate.

Goon or jack off or whatever

Dont fall for that psyop unless you want lifelong joint pain. Judt be average eith some muscles

you literally cant become "alpha" or "chad" or "le real man" the second you start getting all insecure and fretting over if you got the sauce or not. A so called real men doesn't question if he is one cause he just knows that shit already and doesn't feel a need to question it or prove it others.


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Do you consider certain jobs off-limits, for youself or in general from the perspective of a leftist or for personal reasons, such as military, the defense industry, banks, maybe even the meat industry or the work in capitalist governments?

Do you think that there is a point in entryism into those spaces?

Do you judge people based on the profession they chose, independent of their personal circumstances or do you take that into account even if it's probably? Is there a difference if you are talking to someone who 'should know better' i.e. is a self-styled class- or otherwise politically conscious person?

Should a leftist who can't afford or sustain to be a 'professional revolutionary' seek out professions that seek to 'ameliorate' the worst effects of capitalism, like social work, teaching etc.?

Or is just obsessing over the ethics of one's job just moralist lifestylism, akin to 'ethical consumerism' and basically 'anything goes' since the profanition is considered absolute?


What are your thoughts on these points?
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>>390
idrc

>as long as I am paying my party membership dues?
yeah joining some reformist party is par for the course for your types

>>391
What if it's a radical party that even is kind of spicy (like being observed by intelligence services for having contacts to what the government considers foreign actors and 'antagonist governments')

>>392
sounds just as impotent lol, you think proletarians associate over ideas and not necessity?

>>393
You think there is no necessity for radical political parties?

>>388
what's the actual real answer according to you?


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