Not to mention the obvious flaw in his logic that by definition of capitalism not everyone can become a boss, and it’s a requirement in every corporation that the working class will be taken advantage of while the vast majority of the surplus of their value added goes right to their bosses. It’s nice to tell the individual to just “become a boss” but this is a broad systemic issue.

yeah this exactly too

it's always the same with this basic argument tho. don't expect actually powerful people to sort the climate crisis, do more recycling and obviously people should recycle more, but individual responsibility or just rampant individualism in general won't be enough

I’m about to unfollow this section

Did anything in my post say it was easy?

It won't be easy but it won't kill you either

And also

I didn't say to become "the boss", either.

I said to become "a boss", so become a boss at whatever you want to do

Lol bro

"treat workers fair"

Define fair... Bc "fair" is going to be a different definition for every single worker and person

There is no universal "fairness"

Also... Yes... Everyone CAN become a boss. Anyone that can work for someone else and make enough money doing that can become their own boss and make a living working for themselves
How long it will take them will change person to person, but my first post literally gave a 25 year span. From 18 to 43... Anyone that is able to work a regular job, can become a boss in that time. They may only make 30k a year being their own boss but that doesn't mean they can't do it
They may not want to do it bc they think being a worker is better than being a boss, but if they think that then don't complain

Kanye is still very pro worker. That's why he's bringing jobs to America and talks about the average working man's perspective all the time

Everyone can become a boss because the "working class" will just be robots instead of people.
Everyone in America can be a boss before we have robots doing everything as well bc everyone in America could be a boss of "workers" in other countries

Rampant individualism is the only reason why we have the modern world that we have

Kanye is a rampant individual
Elon is a rampant individual
Jack Dorsey
Even S, the owner of this site, is a rampant individual.
There is something for everyone to do and give to the world, our country rn is just not structured in a way where we are efficiently mining that out of people (maybe bc "they" don't want everyone to be a boss)

You do realize... Me saying "everyone needs to become their own boss" implies a time span due to the word "become", right?

If you are 18 duh you are not a boss.
My very first post obviously said that there are people who 25 years later are still working the same cashier job instead of becoming a boss over time

fam there were still successful individuals before we took the specific aspects of individualism i'm talking about to a continuing extreme.

you don't have to neglect the collective completely just for individual people or innovators to succeed. it's not like one or the other. both things can happen. and really both should compliment each other, rather than hold each other back. i'm sure me and you are both super individualistic in some ways, but i don't think you need to carry that through to everything you do.

the interesting thing about kanye is thematically at least in his music it's always felt like he was in a push or pull between those two modes. it's sort of encapsulated a bit in that line about how 'always said if i rapped i'd say something significant/now i'm rapping money hoes and rims again...'

also tho maybe that cashier just had other constraints, like why should they be looked at as 'oh well screw you you just didn't become a boss'. who knows what they had going on personally? and like we need cashiers way more than we need a lot of people in higher paid roles with more agency, so maybe we should be more grateful for them not doing whatever you think they could have easily done to become 'a boss'

you can't honestly think the low paid workers we've all relied on to sustain us during coronavirus times have been treated fairly.

yeah everybody will have a different view on what fairness is. but all i'm sure that guy meant about workers (not that ye will run anyway), was what is his position on workers who are often made powerless compared to their bosses (especially with the deliberate weakening of unions). to me fairness is them not having to get into situations where they can be treated like s*** from a lack of protection. for a start off wages are way too stagnant and way too low, partly because of some of those factors.

I understand what you're saying technically about people being able to just quick being a worker and become a boss, but in reality it just isn't like that when a lot of people don't have savings or just aren't set up to be 'a boss'. that could be because of anything from pressures/commitments in their lives and a lack of savings cos their money is tied up in rent or providing for their kids, everyday necessities (if they're low paid) or whatever it is to just not having the personality or mental capacity to hold down that kind of role that comes with being a boss. There should be no shame in that for those people and they shoudn't be treated lesser.

there's also some people in work all week helping their bosses make profits and still ending up in relative in-work poverty. you've maybe just been lucky enough to not have any friends or family find themselves in that situation and i'm happy for you, but surely we can do better than that. i think we've seen over the pandemic just some of the ways bosses are able to take advantage of workers, especially if they're in precarious or zero hours work.

don't get me wrong i get that there are more global pressing concerns, but the idea that social mobility is just great or something is just not reality for most people

We shouldn't have someone who's mentally ill & no political background in the oval office.

his part on Freeee with cudi is an anthem for everybody in a crappy job to vicariously live through tbf

op is right

Kanye will never appeal to the people that actually go vote, so he doesn't stand a chance in hell. Maybe if he actually won the Dem nomination and was up against Trump

Then you won’t be voting for anyone

Imagine thinking Biden or Trump actually believe in god

He absolutely no longer has laser focus work ethic lol
He half asses so much these days

I mean they have to say they do, your country is deeply Christian, don’t they even have to have their hand on a bible during inauguration?

terrible post.

obama obviously wasn’t mentally ill but he was definitely a piece of s***.

you sound racist

Whats the point of working so much it is unhealthy if what you're producing isnt even good, if he is even producing anything, how many times has Kanye promised things that ended up getting scrapped

Quantity doesnt mean quality

He's as qualified as Trump was in 2016.

i dont really believe he would be a great president i just say he would be for the memes and to piss people off