The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image.

Or they might have broken their back working long hours for 20 years sacrificing to live below their means and build up a big enough stash to be able to vibe for a while and maybe even find something to do that would be meaningful for them and possibly help others. I don’t presume to know anyone else’s history, struggles, or circumstances, and it seems a bit unkind to make assumptions.

But, probably, yeah. In most cases. I just felt personally attacked because I just left a job I hated, moved to a low cost of living area, massively downsized on housing, and realized I can exist for quite a while without having a job, and can finally try finishing some side projects I never had time for. So, I still work, it’s just that nobody is paying me.

Just skimmed through the thread and its filled with strawmen or plain misunderstanding.

Nobody is criticizing someone for having rich parents, even if said parents got that money from exploitation, heck even slavery.

No the criticism is that someone rich, thanks to their parents rather than their own effort, is promoting a way to reach such a position in life by replicating a path that is not real. If you have rich parents and you promote "making stuff" or writing a book, which you actually did yet never meaningfully contributing to the lifestyle you are promoting, you are basically dishonest.

TL;DR: nobody cares about that specific person or that situation, we are just tired of lies sold for profit.

Reminds me of an aside from this blog article that has been living in my head for a few months — To Save the Arts we must Kill the Artist — that goes like:
the artist as the bourgeois failson
And other such points about the intersections of privilege, wealth, etc, and art.

The best way to fight the system is to be jobless. Imagine if no one had a job? Bye bye capitalism. The end. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

"I don't want to work. I want to live in the woods and grow my own food and get back to nature." - City Hippie

i lost my job earlier this year, so i'm just vibin'. Not exactly ideal but I have some buffer time saved up.

im so happy that i was blessed with parents who never struggled with money. nothing wrong with that. and yea, im hella vibing in life jobless <3

Congratulations on your detachment from reality.
- fuck reality
For sure, and props to you for being open about that—something this post is arguing for IRL (trustafarians tend to conceal their privilege)
- thank you, im always open about my privilege. but theres always gonna be wage cucks who shit on people like me lmao
Found the trust fund trustafarian 😂
- i have no idea what that means but ok
let's hope nobody has to depend on you one day
- lets hope you stop being a meanie beanie -_-

This is, apparently, Shanin Blake. This is a picture from 2017.

Her parents are not rich.

Arguably, there's a lot to criticize her about, but her leading a carefree lifestyle and finding success in publicizing it doesn't seem like one.

Arguably, there's a lot to criticize her about, but her leading a carefree lifestyle and finding success in publicizing it doesn't seem like one.
Wanna bet that whoever latches onto the image to jam their lazy uninformed truthiness (as Stephen Colbert coined the term) narrative into, uses the same kind of lazy uninformed truthiness narrative
bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe MuH pURiTeH
to not vote and empower the goose-stepping fascist goons into the federal government and into their communities.
Has anyone seen real dreadlocks before? These are obviously not real. Maybe she's not trying to pass them off as real, idk.
- I'm not sure I get why you responded to my comment.
Trustafarian is an absolutely brilliant insult.
- why would you insult somebody for being middle-class

As someone who effectively lives in his grandmother's attic and "vibes" I am insulted by the vague comparison. I have to budget with my job damnit, I work as a courier one day a week.

The rest of the week is me doing autism and childhood PTSD things, so jacking off and playing Fallout NV. Also getting new scars via cats.

I also have a far better sense of fashion, THE 1940 SWEDISH TANKER GREAT COAT STAYS ON DURING SEX!

But have you 100 % NV yet? I'm currently trying to.
- I have had NV since it more or less released I have over a thousand hours on it and have played it more or less continuously for over a decade. Of course I havent 100% it.
stays on
Im sure
during sex
Unproven.
- My right hand is a very fulfilling partner!
- I consider it sex when my alter ego takes control and starts ravaging my body. Big grey area though, in terms of consent.
I may not understand much… but this I get
Don't you get bored, or back problems from sitting at a computer 24/7 ?
- I have enough room to pace in a circle while listening to music and emotionally spiral over my past failures, perpetual inadequacy, etcetera. Also I sometimes need to sleep so I lay down at times. Also it isn't seven days a week, I need to go out to the desert and deliver vegetables and other produce every Friday.

Fucking trust fund babies.

I've got friends who are vibing without a job. The vibes are... not so good.

Tbh, that's not true. If your standards are low enough, you can get by with very little money.

When I was at university (10 years ago) I could get by with 5-10h of work per week. I had a single-room flat and no car, a 10yo laptop, a cheapo second-hand phone and ate cheap food. The total amount of assistance that I received from my parents were birthday and christmas presents with a total worth of €700 over 5 years.

Now I have a larger flat, a wife, two kids and a car. Now I need much more money.

Of course, neither the cost nor the lifestyle are comparable.

i sincerely doubt you could afford to live on barely part time work 10 years ago, which would be 2015, unless you were massively subsidized by unemployment, an angel investor, or you were a squatter
- Neither nor.
  I paid €350 for my flat and made €25/h doing maths tutoring. I had a monthly budget of €800 in 2015 and that was enough.
  I never received unemployment benefits and why on earth would someone invest in a random student?

It's so weird seeing people making poor interpretations of another ethnicity's culture their entire identity. I wonder if there are weirdos in India rocking lederhosen or milkmaid outfits at random music festivals and ranting to strangers about Calvinism?

The Japanese Elvis culture springs to mind.
Also, there are "cowboys" everywhere in the world.
You mentioned lederhosen and of course those types exist outside of Germany too.
The longstanding tradition in India is to wander around naked.
You should see some of the "American food" they sell in some parts of Europe and Asia. I feel like it's pretty typical everywhere to misunderstand and exoticize other cultures.
- America and Japan have this as a special cultural relationship. Are the yankii cringe, obviously, but my little yank heart is warmed by seeing people look at aspects of American culture and asking someone to hold their vending machine Asahi. I hope they feel the same about weebs. The thing is we all just see each other as kinda cool and exotic and so we riff on each other's shit.
- Not just typical. It should be celebrated. I for one throughly enjoy seeing cross cultural exchanges of any creative type. Exotic doesn't need to be derogatory or dehumanizing. (it's really unfortunate that it most often is.) Everybody is exotic somewhere.
- I want to visit America one time just for the food. I keep hearing from American TV about twinkies and red vines and all kinds of stuff, then I try them whenever I get a chance here in the UK and theyre so bad. I need to know for sure whether we're getting a version that conforms to our food laws and they lose a lot in the process or if theyre really that terrible.
Check out Takeo Ischi, the Japanese yodeler
- I think we've found our new rick roll. That is amazing.
  Edit: That or Oki Dokey Yogi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z71uWLqw-LY

I for one just had a good job and zero life for 5 years and will kms when my savings run out in a year or two

You really shouldn't. But if you do, you should consider doing something that would make your death meaningful.
Not going to say anything further.
I survived death. 85-95% chance of dying - nobody's fault but my own. Let me tell ya: when I go down (probably being dragged to a concentration camp, since I am now an illegal person), it won't be quiet and bureaucratic.
- Ok
Why not just work for 5 more years and build the buffer again instead of ending it?
- Long life isn't everything. World is fucked

There are people vibing on fiends couches going from person to person. They they don't look like that.

Takes a certain kind of mentality to vibe on a fiend's couch
- You are NOT wrong ;)
- ✝️🙅‍♂️

That chick is annoying. I think I've blocked five or six video different clone accounts to stop getting her videos on the reels feed.

As cringe as this gal is (I don't watch her videos either) I can stomach her easier than the 77 Million people who voted for Trump. I'd much rather focus on fixing whatever is wrong with them over this neo-hippie.
Wait, this is a specific person? I assumed OP was a stock photo. Is her shtick just being the 2020s version of a hippie?
- Shanin Blake. She has crappy rap about shrooms and acid. She gets worse and worse as time goes by. She will have blasted face tats and be washed up in no time.
- I'm curious too!
  Literally thought this was a meme about the travel influencers and those people who attend every concert without ever holding down a job.

i wonder what they smell like, hahaha

I go to various small punk shows all the time often they're not even at a venue. Someone looking like this image is not the person who smells bad. Besides, a homeless crust or gutter punk isnt half as bad as when I meet a tech bro who looks crisp but never learned the art of washing their asshole
- If they touched their butthole that'd make them gay, real men let the Musk build up to assert dominance.
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