Being a pro-market libertarian left anti-capitalist is not respected. Pro-capitalists basically view this as anti-market communism. The left sees you as personally defending every bad aspect of capitalism despite your opposition to capitalist appropriation, monopolistic aspects of private property and privatization of natural resources. Historically, this position was prominent with examples including Proudhon and the classical laborists
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The skill of drunk driving
Smoking.
Gottingen University
Elon Musk
Being the President.
Reddit
Was Reddit really ever well respected? From what I’ve seen even before the current drama it was recognized as “the neck beard platform” or something along those lines.
Yeah, there was always some stigma involved, even when it became mainstream
especially when it became mainstream
It was well respected by me as the only social platform that wasn’t a form of self torture that countless people inexplicably partake in daily.
Now I consider Lemmy to have that singular position.
Check out Kbin then, pretty similiar in spirit (also, it’s federated!)
You’re right. I generally consider kbin and Lemmy to be part of the same thing.
The fediverse?
Americans
Thats kinda just terminally online folk. That and western europe, but those guys suck any way.
Ow… My feelings…
I’m American and for as long as I’ve been alive I always got the sense that Americans are not respected but just tolerated. Mostly because of our military.
I don’t know how old you are, but I feel the same way. However, I suspect that immediately after WWII ended and before it became common knowledge that the US was in the game of empire, there was a brief period where the US was seen as a place where people could seriously upgrade their station in life through hard work and a bit of luck.
But that might be the same propaganda that taught us that we were special when I was in school. I honestly can’t tell and I don’t have anyone that I can ask of the right age that wasn’t born here.
I was born in the early 80’s and I remember a lot more pro America propaganda when I was a kid compared to now. I had some friends from Albania and Poland in high school and I think when their families moved to the US they bought into the pro American media stuff a few moved back pretty quickly. I’ve been to Europe a few times and some people I met told me to not tell people I’m American they will treat you different. Some straight up said they hated all Americans to me.
The Supreme Court.
Having a long career at a single company (that tended to treat you well).
I’d argue it’s not not respected, but it is considered foolish.
This coming from someone who’s been at one company for almost 7 years trying to get a new job.
Hiring manager here. It depends on the company doing the hiring. If they have a culture of hanging on to people by treating them well, you tend to look for people who like to stick around when considering candidates. I know it’s not as common these days, but these companies do exist. It’s not uncommon to run into people at my company who have been around for 15 or even 20+ years
I was at my last company for 15 years. Went from cubical minion to VP in that time, still got a lot of raised eyebrows when I was looking for something new a couple years ago.
I work at a company that pays for all of the education it would take for me to run my own insurance brokerage, I’d be foolish not to stay. They also have pretty low turn over, there are dozens of people who have been there for 15-40 years.
It really depends on the situation. It’s not foolish to be content in a good situation.
The post office.
You can send a letter to anywhere in the US for less than a dollar and it gets there quickly. You don’t even need to leave your house to do it. Now people complain about lines and that it isn’t profitable.
The only reason why it isn’t currently profitable is that Republicans forced them to fund their retirement plan decades in advance and all within a few years time. They were having to save for future employees that hadn’t even been born yet.
There’s also this weird discussion trap that damn near everybody falls into regarding the post office - why does it need to be profitable at all? It’s a government service - nobody expects schools, police departments, fire departments, NASA, public works departments, health departments, departments of transportation, the military, or basically anything else to be profitable.
Yeah I think that comes from it being one of the few government services that has private competitors. I’m sure a few campaign contributions helped sway a certain party’s membership to hammer profitability. We saw what they did when Trumps lackey was appointed to the post office and began gutting sorting centers and anything else that would help efficiency and profitability.
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Eugenics
Explain?
Eugenics used to be a popular idea.
Now it is not.
It used to be respected science, but now it isn’t anymore because of how it was used to try and eradicate people of racial minorities as well as people who were considered mentally ill.
Eventually though people realized that it’s not great and actually quite dystopian to allow for people to be murdered for being mentally ill (some places actually did kill people) or trying to prevent people from reproducing. Hence why it is no longer respected in most countries and for good reason, it is fucking evil.
Catholic priest
The Catholic Church in general is less respected because they covered up for those pedophilic Catholic priests.
They head a healthy dose of fear to go with their respect.
