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On the Fairness of Life

Quotes and Insights

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What is it that the child has to teach?

The child naively believes that everything should be fair
and everyone should be honest,
that only good should prevail,
that everybody should have what they want
and there should be no pain or sadness.

The child believes the world should be perfect
and is outraged to discover it is not.

And the child is right.

- Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

Wisdom to Heal the Earth
Meditations and Teachings
of the Lubavitcher Rebbe


Westerners are fond of the saying "Life isn't fair." Then, they end in snide triumphant: "So get used to it!"
What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child's budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, "Life isn't fair," and her response will be: "Then make it fair!"

- Barbara Alice Mann



Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes to understand that psychopaths can be entrepreneurs, politicians, CEOs and other successful individuals who may never see the inside of a prison.

- Dr. Robert Hare



What is the biggest lesson that employment has taught you?
Efficient workers got punished with more work.

- @Nazafi_Hamid said to @angelamavalla



Somebody said these weekends starting to feel like 30 min lunch breaks and I felt that in my soul.

- @xo_meli__



Just to be clear: if I have degrees and am struggling with student debt I should've not wasted money on college and gotten a real job, but if I have a blue collar job and am struggling with low wages I should've gone to college and gotten a real job.

- @LifeAsHales



One of the reasons the U.S. ruling class has been so hostile to universal healthcare is because they've adopted the tying of healthcare to employment as a key disciplinary tool to keep the working class in line. You either join the labor market and try to climb the corporate ladder, or you die.

- @zei_squirrel



The Sunday Times (April 27, 2021): Millennial? Saving for a House? You might need an inheritance.

A sign of a healthy economy is when you tell a whole generation to sit tight and wait for their parents to die.

- @AyoCaesar



I'm absolutely losing my mind that credit scores weren't estalished in the U.S. until 1989. We really are the guinea pig generations for all the bad Boomer ideas.

- @sleepisocialist



As a therepist I can say confidently, that while therapy is helpful, what most people really need is money.

- @caitiehannan



Happy New Year to the CEOs who tell each other "no one wants to work anymore" while playing golf at 10am on a Wednesday.

- @The_LaborLawyer



It's actually crazy how we figured out how to grow real diamonds that are cheaper and better quality than the real thing and so many people are still like, no thanks the suffering is what makes it special.

- @missmayn



The way you say "representative" to an automated system is the real you.

- @TheCatChisprer



Millennials will be the first generation since the 1800s that are worse off than their partents. Overeducated, overworked, lonely, depressed, and poorer in almost every metric across the board.

- u/strongnumb1



Question: Not a dime saved for retirement at 31 years old. I feel like our generation faces an uphill battle with retirement. Anyone in the same boat? How are we as a generation supposed to save for retirement while also struggling to afford life?

Answer: Small increments add up! Commit a dollar per day or equivalent. By the time you're 70, with enough contributions and interest you'll have enough money saved up for assisted suicide.

- u/DazzlingMongoose2204



My kids said being a grown up must be awesome because you can eat junk food and no one makes you get up in the morning and you don't have to take showers if you don't want to and I didn't want to ruin it for them be explaining that they're describing depression.

- maura quaint @behindyourback