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My sister wants me to apologize to her new boyfriend because he ‘felt judged’ when I asked what he does for work
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Later, the sister calls in outrage, lecturing about how judgmental that question was. Apparently asking about employment is now classist, even when the subject’s main occupation is existing rent-free on his grandparents’ real estate. The sister insists he just has a different approach to life. Translation, he has no job and an inflated vocabulary to disguise it. The idea of apologizing to someone for mistaking laziness for philosophy feels like peak late-stage absurdity.
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The problem isn’t that this man rejects the grind, it’s that he mistakes energy conservation for enlightenment. There’s a difference between anti-capitalism and pro-letting-other-people-pay-for-your-food. The only apology owed here is from the sister, for forcing her family to witness that monologue with a straight face. If your partner can’t survive a harmless question without turning it into Marxist performance art, the issue isn’t capitalism. It’s ego with a trust fund.
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Woman’s sister demands she apologize to her 28-year-old boyfriend, who gets offended when asked what he does for work and lectures his way out of answering: ‘Turns out he’s unemployed by choice and lives off his grandparents’ rental income’
If there's ever been a story I'm qualified to write and comment about, it's this one right here. Because, unfortunately, nothing sets any of us apart from other people when it comes to being a functional member of society. Not even Philosophy enthusiasts.
I would like to hope there is, that way I could read philosophy all day and only engage in insightful conversation about wisdom and the human experience. The human condition, though, is one that makes most of us go to work and not act like a hurt little snowflake anytime something isn't 100% comfortable.
Anyway, this story is about one guy who clearly doesn't think like me, and if I might add, he sounds to be much more tuned with his emotions, feelings, and triggers than with the pursuit of knowledge.
The family dinner started politely enough until the new boyfriend decided small talk was an existential threat. The sister brings him in glowing like she's discovered intellectual gold. The conversation rolls along, wine poured, smiles exchanged, then comes the harmless question: What do you do for work. A question older than taxes, universally accepted as conversational filler. But this man takes it personally. He straightens up, stares with deep pseudo-wisdom, and delivers his line of the evening, that he does not define himself by capitalism. Which is poetic considering capitalism currently pays for his dinner.
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