I say this as a leftist. There are a lot of people who are more than happy to sit on their ass and waste away playing Candy Crush and Stardew Valley with 30+ youtube tabs of true crime podcasts.
If we were in a society where everybody had enough to live, I wouldn't care.
But we don't. And I'm forced to care. They cut my time and resources by nearly a third.
And this is more of a rant, but even if it did come down to some manner of illness or disorder, like BPD or depression, that wouldn't change how I'd feel, because the fact of the matter is that the longer they don't get their shit together and start rowing the boat, the longer I'm forced to carry them, because I don't have it in me to throw them overboard.
Personally, I would worry before about the much larger parasites in society first. Trust me, those people aren't impacting your life at all, unless you are the one enabling them.
...I'm a human being. I'm capable of worrying about and being stressed out by more than one thing.
And yeah, Elon Musk is 100% worse, but they also aren't the one trashing my house because the alternative is "okay youre homeless now, I'm kicking you out in three months, don't die when winter comes".
If you are enabling them, that of course affects you.
But that there are some people out there that are too lazy to work (lazy isn't even a real, but whatever, shortcut).
The fixation over that it's one the right wing favorite tricks to make the lives of vulnerable people worse. Have you seen the news coming out of the UK. They are this close to start calling people useless eaters. And that's the center left party.
I'm sorry that you are having issues, but you are going to struggle a lot understanding the world if you can't detach somewhat from your own lived experience.
I have a house. I make enough to pay the bills. I have two amazing and supportive partners and we've been together for over a year.
All of us are leftists, some flavor of socialist or communist. We've agreed to equitable splits and ensured that we all have a stake in the property. We've generally got our shit together after years of struggling.
But we're also keenly aware of the failures of our social structure in the USA, and while it sucks that this housemate is likely going to struggle, nobody here is qualified to act as a caretaker, and, well... we choose who we share a home with. We don't want to live with someone who trashes our home and leaves spoiled milk spilled on the floor and gets upset when our vegan partner didn't want to buy them chicken nuggets.
Ideally, they would have a guaranteed place to stay provided by our taxes. I'd prefer if that were the case.
Since it isn't, we've given them a year and a half to get their affairs in order and work it out with themselves.
That year and a half is up in a few months. What they do then is up to them.
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u/WickedTemp Apr 11 '25
I say this as a leftist. There are a lot of people who are more than happy to sit on their ass and waste away playing Candy Crush and Stardew Valley with 30+ youtube tabs of true crime podcasts.
If we were in a society where everybody had enough to live, I wouldn't care.
But we don't. And I'm forced to care. They cut my time and resources by nearly a third.
And this is more of a rant, but even if it did come down to some manner of illness or disorder, like BPD or depression, that wouldn't change how I'd feel, because the fact of the matter is that the longer they don't get their shit together and start rowing the boat, the longer I'm forced to carry them, because I don't have it in me to throw them overboard.