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North America as a whole - America mostly, but also Canada being not that far behind - has been on a crazy rush to the bottom with cultivated ignorance.

Anything intellectual is mocked and degraded. Children who are smart try to hide it because it’s “not cool”. Adults who are competent and erudite get treated like freaks.

As of late, my longer-form content been frequently flagged as a product of AI because I use “big words” -- and the language I use is no more sophisticated as something put together in first or second year university. It’s not sophisticated in the least, but the problem arises because a majority of adult Americans can’t read past a 5th grade level. So when I write at a completely bog-standard adult level, most adults simply cannot keep up.

And this intellectual decline in our culture is hella terrifying.

Vivek made his money lying to investors and then fleeing using insider information. Who thinks he would he know about hard work? Nobody in doge ever worked a day in their lives.

Let me spare you all some false hope: he wasn't literally dragged.

Conservatives actively killing education be like Y NO ENGIUNERS?!?!!?

Y u no work harder for the billionaire CEOs who do nothing >:(

Link to the rant. Boy that's some vomit!

Somewhat related story, but I'll share it to put a win for the little guy somewhere in these comments.

When I was in my late teens I worked in the deli of a large supermarket chain. We had a hot food section with reheated frozen crap that was always dried out and gross, and a pizza oven to cook school cafeteria quality pizzas. Needless to say, no one bought anything.

Right next to that was the deli section where I worked evenings. We had the fancy Boarshead stuff, including a bunch of fancy Italian meats. Nobody bought that stuff either cuz we're not redneck here, but city people kind of treat us like we are, and nobody knew what soppresetta and that kind of thing was.

All this stuff would just sit until it got thrown out from not being sold. I would take bits of it all on its way to the trash, and I started making calzones with the pizza dough and the nice deli meats and ringing myself up for the price of like a quarter pound of meat, which was fair to me and the store. I made them for myself at first, and then some other people in the department.

The one day I made a few and gave samples out to some of my regular customers and of course they liked them because they were made with care and attention and better ingredients than any of the store stuff. I started making them in nights I was in and putting them in the hot bar and they sold decent.

One day the manager came back and cried it wasn't in the plan-o-gram and blah blah and I had to knock it off.

Maybe a week later, they came back to me again and asked how I had been pricing them and I said I was basically just charging the weight of the deli meat and they tweaked the price a little and I kept making them, as people had been ticked when I said I wasn't allowed to make them anymore.

I left not too long after, and I can't say it was due to me or anything, but now all of those sites around here make little calzones and have them in the deli section as a grab and go item to cook at home.

It wasn't enough to teach me everything I needed to know about how companies treat people that go above, but it definitely contributed to my education about work vs reward. But I'm glad I won that one. I liked saving food from the trash, and I liked seeing people enjoy something that was my idea and made purely by me and my skill. I guess I learned some things about myself as well.

Tbf, he’s probably saying a lot of this because he’s experiencing prejudice for being an outsider, kind of like Steve Bannon at Harvard syndrome. People like that just want to burn the world when they find out that conservatives really only favor an in-group of their own kind, and people like them will never truly belong.

That said, hard fucking lol. The only reason India gets so much support is because US wants to prop up a puppet in SE Asia. Indians also get ahead on political fronts in America because they’re currently the “safe minority” and not scary Chinese, Arabs or Latinos. He’s literally a DEI hire for white supremacists.

Also, America has most noble prizes than any country. But dumb cunts like him will never admit that the public education and progressive policies in America favored it a lot. All of these conservatives should FAFO, but their bad ideas will only make it worse for vulnerable people.

Never met a craftsman in my life who didn't want to produce excellence.

The reason they don't is because management at best doesn't value it, and more often punishes it. This is you and your buddies fault Vivek Ramaswamy, you absolute shit for brains knob.

Isn't this the same guy who said "weekends were a mistake"?

People like this have fully infiltrated the US tech sector, and have been kicking and screaming about how the workers there aren't killing themselves for their jobs anymore. They have completely embraced classism and believe they are at the top of some imaginary tower or food chain that allows them to make idiotic statements like this. Anti-egalitarian at the core.

They've already stripped all the benefits of working in tech away from the workers, and are now complaining that the horse won't pull the cart anymore now that the carrot is gone. Pieces of shit.

Sounds like someone wanted to be prom king.

Lolol yes do it, keep talking Vivek and Musk. Burn all your bridges to the actual elected GOP. Make yourselves and DOGE hated before it even begins.

This asshole can just go fuck himself.

I'd definitely say that Americans value hard work. To the point of their own detriment. I'd also say they often strive for excellence in product making, but it rarely comes out excellent. When comparing product quality between Europe and the US, Europe almost always comes out ahead. Plus, Europeans value a good balance between work and life. That's true excellence in my book. The US seems to mostly survive on size and quantity rather than quality.

Lol first musk, now this guy. These techbro wranglers are about to discover what getting into bed with fascist nationalists really means.

This DEI hire doesn’t know the meaning of hard work

He's not complaining about us being ba workers. He complaining the average Joe doesn't treat their manager like a king like in Indian culture.

I worked for an Indian company once, I only made it 12 months before the harassment became too much.

US businesses don’t hire foreign workers because they perform better than domestic workers. They do it because they pay less for slave labor. US slaves primarily work in domestic food production, initially as a way to reduce the cost of food, but that turned into corporate profit pretty quickly.

Now we’ve created a massive margin standard on foreign imports as well as domestic food production. The inevitable consequence is that correction would either result in a temporary but substantial domestic business profit loss, or employing more unpaid or underpaid domestic workers.

Take a guess which track the Republicans plan on taking while they begin to fill the detention centers.

Wealthy investment banker classist ladder-puller criticizing what he doesn't understand instead of addressing the actual problems many people face and using his wealth and power to provide and execute solutions. He's a leach, oligarch, and a demagogue for oppression. People in positions of power should be held to a higher standard, not a lower one.

As an atheist I'm reminded around this time of year of the teachings Jesus had that apply regardless of faith or secularity; like give away all your belongings because material goods are a chain weighing you down. Be compassionate, forgiving, and helpful and good people will reciprocate. Vivek isn't generous or caring for the people who need help most like prisoners, sick, elderly. He's a stingy Scrooge who would rather for-profit insurance exist than universal healthcare.

The controversy may jeopardize his standing in the Trump administration.

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What exactly does “dragged” mean in the headline?

At first I thought women were dressing up like him and parading through the streets.

lol

Hey he's not a CEO but, y'know. Maybe we could make an exception.

As an anticap American, made so by our worship of greed and glut and sociopathic cruelty in the name of profit, I make it my mission at work to do as little as possible, and gum up the works at my greedy employer's as much as possible without it looking like I am.

I'm doing my part to stifle GDP! Are you?

(In a non-captured oligarchal dictatorship, if you wanted worker buy in, remake the tax code to punish corporations and incentivize cooperatives. That can't happen here, we're too captured, but theoretically)

dragged 😒