If you needed motivation

Yeah because fuck hustle culture.

Even without hustle culture I'm not going to be as motivated as a crackhead looking for a fix because I am not powered by addiction. I'm more motivated to sleep and eat way too much pie so a pothead would be better competition.
- I’ll take the long odds of you vs. a serious pothead in being more chillaxed and housing mucho pie

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So not your mom... yeah that's good advice.
- Are you suggesting crackheads have disposable income for hookers?
- I don't think crackheads are having sex with my mom... Which means I must have sex with her D:
OC has been suspiciously silent since they learned crackheads breathe
I prefer to do the opersite of this. As this is not upto los pollos hermanous standards

d5d

(Shh don't tell anyone I stole this from another post two minutes ago)

So you're saying that you should suck a guy's dick in a dark alley for $20 in order to be successful?

20$ are 20$
- $20? Damn, ain't inflation a bitch?
- $20 are $20
Gotta start somewhere
- That's the right attitude. Maybe someday you can move up to sucking dick in a dark basement instead of the alley
You gotta do what you gotta do for $20.
if you're good at a service, always get paid for it 🤷🏼

Well yeah I'm gonna let him out hustle me. That bastards on crack.

So then what's stopping you from being on crack?
- Greedflation coupled with stagnant wages, probably.

Sure, let's all hustle like crackheads:

"Oh, your job isn't paying enough? Well, have you tried stealing from your family? Your grandma has a social security check coming, right? Oh, your family doesn't talk to you anymore, huh? Well have you tried selling your neighbor's car stereo? What about his propane grill? How about stealing tube socks from Walmart and trying to sell those on the street to anyone who walks by? Still not cutting it, huh? I don't know man, maybe it's time to try sucking some dicks."

These memes seem a lot less clever if you've ever been close to someone whose life got snowed under by addiction, or lived in a neighborhood that has a crack problem. Seeing real crackheads really hustling is pretty fucking bleak. They're not getting ahead. They're not winning. They're burning everything with even a shred of value to service their addiction, including family and personal relationships.

I don't know, maybe it's a very apt metaphor for capitalism, and what our capitalist system expects of us, but I have no desire to trade the people and things that make my life bearable just so I can brag about having a couple extra dollars in the bank.

That's kind of the point though. If "hustling like a crackhead" wasn't obviously a bad thing, there'd be no joke here.

Work like it's a crippling addiction - it's not as though crackheads have miserable lives, their bodies literally falling apart as their minds figuratively do the same, until they either muster the incredible willpower to endure the intense suffering required to drop the habit, enduring lifelong consequences, or die an early death.

As far as red flags go...

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I read it as making fun of hustle culture.
- You might see it that way, because you're predisposed to seeing how ridiculous it is, but people have been using this unironically for a long time now.

LinkedIn vibes

Yeah, I don't need anything as much as that crackhead needs crack.

I'm not that addicted to life...

At least crackheads have some goal in life..

Instructions unclear, now I’m addicted to crack.

Damn, people on Lemmy are among the least fun people I've ever seen, based on these comments.

Your name is literally anticorp and thats what most of these comments are saying.

How would you like them to respond? /genc
- You don't need to pick everything apart. It's okay to joke around.

So you say I should rob a store, or what?

Not a fair comparison to us non-drugged people because apparently crack cocaine is quite energizing & makes people highly -driven to get shit done.

Just a buncha normies here wallowing in existential dread & unshakeable procrastination.

so i should start smoking crack, is what you're saying.
- Well you know, lemmy knows best?

This is truly motivational

it'd seem like your only move is hustle

Fuck. That’s dark.

I feel like Gus Johnson could make a video out of this.

Why are you black?

Wikipedia says:

Dark skin is a type of human skin color that is rich in melanin pigments.

and

In the human skin, melanogenesis is initiated by exposure to UV radiation, causing the skin to darken.
- When my kid was a toddler we were standing in a street and she suddenly pointed at a group of people that looked like Pakistanis or Indians or thereabouts and asked loudly "Why do those people have dark skin?"
  
  The entire street stopped and looked at us just waiting for my answer.
  
  That wasn't the time to go into long explanations about immigration, adoption, skin pigmentation or UV radiation.
  
  I answered loud and clear "That's because their parents had dark skin".
  
  Everyone shrugged and continued their business, but I'd like to think that my simple answer was a lesson for all the people who were ready to get offended from either a racist answer or from an overly political correct answer.
  
  Some things don't need to be difficult.
- It was a joke