They seem to think everything just comes easy, everything is obtainable. I was just reading a thread on reddit about a woman who screams non stop at her son and takes all her frustrations out on him and all of reddit are like “She needs to get therapy, for a long time, maybe years, maybe permanently.” Like, what the hell? Who on earth could even afford that? Do they all just have endless money? Even if you live in a country with socialised healthcare you normally have to spend ages on a waiting list for a short course of therapy. Who are all these millionaires who think everyone can just be in therapy permanently? Whenever anyone has a problem the reddit answer is always “Therapy, now!” With no thought at all about whether the person can access or pay for that.
I’ve noticed this with other things on reddit too. There was once a reddit thread where people were asking why poor people buy takeaway food and how they can’t be poor if they buy it. I spoke on there about how I’d been in a situation where I was living in a bedsit, had run out of money, only had a few pounds left. There was no money left on my gas or electric meter. I could either put my last few pounds on the meter, or I could buy food, but then with no gas or electric I wouldn’t be able to cook any food. So my only option was to buy some cheap ready cooked food like chips from the fish and chip shop. Some really rude redditors refused to believe this, saying no-one is ever in that situation. They are so dissociated from reality they really don’t even believe people can be so poor they have to choose between utilities or food.
I’ve see other threads where someone posts photos of a medical condition they have, asking what it could be. When told to go to the doctor they say they have no medical insurance, no money to pay, etc and the others are like “Just go, this could be serious.” Like OK, just materialise money out of thin air then. It’s like they think everyone actually has an emergency fund but just doesn’t want to dip into it. It makes me think there’s no hope for humanity, when so many people are like this, not even wanting to believe how poor other people are, there will never be enough appetite for change to actually change things.
i do remember some people on pc building subreddits suggesting only ridiculously expensive parts because everyone can just save up for a little while.
i recall one time where someone was confused as to why people would go for the lower tier of a processor line because it was “just $50 cheaper”
It’s so cringe. They are literally paying for like 3 frames per second that they won’t notice. I can’t imagine having enough money to be that stupid
and the only difference between them would be some imaginary number like 0.0001 GHz
yeah lmfao. when i was doing research to build my pc i ended up getting the impression that you had to spend a loooot of money to get something at least decent because of these types of comments, so i was really surprised when i frankensteined a computer out of second-hand early 2010s parts that was able to do literally everything i wanted without problems for a bit more than the price of a shitty laptop. it was my daily driver for years.
i know that if i were to post about it on reddit i would get shit on so bad for not having spent two nonillion dollars on colored lights for my peripheral vision to enjoy.
When I was on Reddit I’d frequent the budget PC spaces and they were generally free from that. The lowspecgamer subreddit was always a joy, people would help one another run software on wayyy underspecced stuff no matter the workarounds it required