
As a gay man I can whole heartedly tell you only women think men make money just to get women. Plus if a woman is attracted to a guy just because of wealth then that’s a doomed relationship, now go sip your tea
Yeah, it’s mostly so we can afford cool things. Or even just live comfortably without worrying about money.
I think women overestimate how much men think about them, to be honest.
Feels like a Facebook boomer meme
I just dont make money at all
I swear memes like these seem like a psyops to keep us at each others throats
I agree it’s hard to know what’s part of divide and conquer political psyops and whether that was the intention or not of the person that created the original content.
I personally scrolled by this and read it as a debate about feminism in its most basic sense (equality for all) vs conservative traditionalism and patriarchy (heirarchy based control). Not as an attack on men, or to exclude anyone who doesn’t fall into the heteronormative categories which exist as a consequence of the protected heirarchies demanded by conservative traditionalism and patriarchy.
Like the propaganda behind conservative traditionalism has always relied on convincing people that all of modern society’s problems are simply due to moving further away from the traditional values of the past. It’s circular logic that offers easy and appealing solutions to those being targeted with propaganda by using a scapegoat and relying on supporters to either remain unaware of, or, to intentionally ignore the very obvious problems caused by the conservative heirarchies (“values”) that the traditionalist movement seeks to preserve and strengthen.
For example, addressing the declining standard of living with each successive generation, lack of affordable housing, affordable education, and job opportunities in the United States. Traditional conservativism often targets young men by offering them easy solutions to the issues by claiming they were caused by the feminist and civil rights movements that moved American society away from the traditional values (heirarchies) that were already in place.
According to the modern right, the DEI practices that arose from those movements mean all the resources which were previously available for young men to build the American dream, are now unavailable because of DEI. Modern society has redistributed all available resources and handed them to women and minorities, while young (white) men have been forgotten and left behind. Essentially, the movements towards equality have upset the natural order of things, and until that order is restored, there will be no way to fix the problems of modern society. How do you fix the problem? Simple, remove equality.
It’s certainly true that opportunity, housing, affordability, and standard of living have all noticably declined in the U.S over the last 50 years, so the argument that the lack of available resources in the U.S. in 2026 can be traced to and blamed on the most salient social movements 50 years prior (1970’s), is a deceptive but easy conclusion to lead people to out of context. It simply requires you have some prior knowledge of the history and culture of the decade, without acknowledging what was simultaneously happening in the background of the U.S. in response to those movements.
Blaming social equality movements and toppling of established heirarchies, very intentionally ignores the fact that since the 1970’s wealth has become increasingly concentrated in the hands of the 1%. It also ignores the fact that the 1970’s marks the establishment of the first U.S. conservative think tanks (Heritage Foundation, Free Congress Foundation), which were funded by billionaires, and created in direct response to fighting the civil rights movement by establishing political influence and promoting conservative economic and social policies, which both ultimately favor the economic inequality that continues to dominate America in 2026.
Tldr: To restore and preserve the conservative natural order and heirarchy, the policies promoted are always backed by a call to return to traditional values that require division by default.
The traditionalist movement argues a woman’s place is in the home, supported by a hardworking man. While equality based movements would argue a woman’s place, (like any autonomous human being, regardless of class, race, or other identity like male, female, cis, trans, NB etc.), is wherever they want it to be. Whether that’s at home, working, single, married, straight, queer, kids, no kids etc. It promotes equal choice for the individual rather than demanding conformity. The entire point is that there are no pre-established roles set out for her or anybody else.
An equal society means opportunities and resources are available to everyone who chooses to pursue them, rather than kept locked away under the control of a small but heavily insulated and protected 1%, who then decide how to divide up whatever meager resources they’re willing to allow the other 99% to share and fight over for their own survival.
Edit: It’s one thing to fall for propaganda because you don’t know what’s going on in the shadows. That’s been a very intentional strategy of the attack on democracy for the last 50+ years. However, it’s hard to imagine having that evidence presented to you, and intentionally choosing to be a willing cuck for the top 1% of the country. And yet …
Since 1975, nearly $80 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.
•Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaire$ Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
The wealthy have always had disproportionate political influence in society, the United States of America included. In Dark Money, Jane Mayer presents a compelling account of how wealthy ultraconservative business leaders organized themselves over the past several decades to impose their political ideologies of anarchism on the rest of the nation.
Part One focuses on the period from 1970 to 2008, when philanthropy was co-opted as a key participant in the war of political ideas and the free-market political machine, the Kochtopus, was assembled.
•God, Trump and the Closed-Door World of a Major Conservative Group
•Rand corporation 2023: Measuring the Income Gap from 1975 to 2023
•Wealth Of The 1% Reaches Decade High In The U.S.
The share of wealth owned by the 1% of richest people in the United States has reached a new record of 31.7% in the third quarter of 2025

Don’t forget to say thank you.
How the fuck does your TLDR start less than halfway through your post?
TLDR: Because I added citations after the TLDR at the end of the unedited post and included the word Edit: to indicate it was added afterwards
Na, a self-secure person can take a joke while acknowledging the truth in it.
Why is it any more okay to create conflict with less secure people?
Insecure about what?
No idea. You should ask raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world about that.
It’s true. Us humans clearly only harm each-other, so let’s keep a distance, ok?
Am I too insecure to acknowledge the truth? Or maybe it just doesn’t have any truth to it.
Not sure I fully understand, that’s like saying “It’s true, but funny, because… reasons.”
Is this a ragebait?
This is just the couple on the bed meme except where the guy is thinking about legos or some nonsense.
They forgot about the gays. Again.
Nobody expects the bisexual inquisition
*binquisition
Men make money to survive this cyberpunk dystopian capitalist hellscape.
Women make money to survive this cyberpunk dystopian capitalist hellscape.
I’d hate to break this to you, but the cyberpunk dystopian capitalist hellscape is in its infancy. It’s barely learning to crawl yet.
Enjoy the next thousand years or so… if you can…
I hate to break it to you but cyberpunk is a critique of today’s world. Tomorrow can always get much worse.
Today’s world is a toe dipped in the lake of cyberpunk critique.
Transhumanism is, for the most part, still a crackpot fringe theory. Most of us aren’t brainchipped, and there are still recognizable human interactions on the web.
To be fair, I don’t see anyone not even more evil than Epstein over there, ruling the world. And unless you rule the world, the worst of us eventually will. So being VERY transhuman, might actually be the only way to win.
If you’re referring to multilateralism, international law, and rules-based-order, I’d agree. We already had that and it (mostly) worker since the second half of the 20th Century. Although there was still a lot of room for improvement, but now we’re throwing the baby out with the bath water.
But if you mean some well-intentioned do-gooder should conquer everybody and enforce their own standard of decency, then I’d say that’s a slippery slope and self-contradictory. Well-intentioned people don’t conquer the world.
For those wondering what typically defines the cyberpunk literary genre, its key elements include:
High-tech, low-life scenarios: Advanced technology, such as cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality, is prevalent, but it exists alongside widespread societal breakdown and poverty.
Dystopian future:
The settings are typically bleak and oppressive, often dominated by powerful corporations or decentralized, corrupt power structures.Impact of technology on humanity:
Cyberpunk explores how technology shapes society, culture, and individual identity .Antiheroes and rebellion:
Characters are often morally ambiguous rebels fighting against oppressive systems.For high tech-low life, there are some homeless out there with cellphones and laptops, charging them with solar powered chargers.
A smartphone is one of the better investments for a homeless person, because the web allows finding help and resources.
Thanks chatgpt!
You can’t pay me to use that shit. Always confidently incorrect.
Anything with crisp formatting gets labeled as AI these days — and if you use the dash, forget it!
i… present you with…a choice…comrade…
I wish there was a choice…
theres always a choice, it just depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice for it.
Enjoy the next thousand years? Are you immortal? Do you think everyone else is immortal too?
I’m planning on living forever, and it’s working quite well so far.
By golly you’re right. You’ve been alive ever since you were born, with no death interruptions. You’ve cracked the code for immortality.
I have no mouth and I must eat icecream
I forgot what this conversation is about and I don’t feel like backtracking. All I know now is that end-stage ligma is a mouth-less person who’s craving ice cream.
I was making a reference to to Harlan Ellison’s I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream in which characters are kept alive and tortured perpetually. In the end one character takes one for the team, killing the others to end their suffering, and as punishment is reduced to a blob with no limbs or mouth so they can’t harm themselves.
but also I really wanted ice cream
It’s about Cyberpunk dystopia. We are going to live under the worst people imaginable, and I imagine, they want the ultimate trill of inflicting eternal, maximum suffering on helpless, innocent individuals.
I can’t speak for everybody, but I remember when the first continents were formed from geothermal vaults at the bottom of the ocean.
Or maybe that was just a mushroom trip. Either way, the dystopia has only just begun. Stop being pedantic.
Thanks, corporate mascot beever
The reappropriation of the Buc-ees beaver is similar to the reappropriation of Mickey Mouse by punks in the 70’s.
Nothing says 'Muricah more than Buc-ees (and maybe us flag bathing shorts). It is a mecca for meat, oversized sodas and snacks, petrol consumption, and nice toilets to shit all the garbage you’ve consumed.
An .ml account in the Fediverse sporting the ultimate symbol of American consumerism is exactly what I’m going for.
It is a mecca for meat, oversized sodas and snacks, petrol consumption, and nice toilets to shit all the garbage you’ve consumed.
I want to go to there.
Sexism
sad
People will always need each other. Money doesn’t change that. People need affection and intimacy. This culture war shit keeps us filtering the world though the “safety” of their apps instead of actually connecting with each other, which is why we’re all so fucking miserable imo.
No, no — now repeat after me:
Men are bad.
Unless you’re a man at which point:
Women are bad.
I hope I helped.
Humans are bad. There are too many of us, so now we are trying to cannibalize each other. You can see in real-time that we don’t value the average person at all, or even the exceptional person (unless they are famous, and part of a product we like).
Everybody Sucks Here
I’m sure it’s true for some women. But I wouldn’t be surprised if most working women were either married or in a committed relationship. Plus, a lot of households have two incomes out of necessity. Both partners need to work full time just to make ends meet.
no i wish i was hot and toxic enough to have a sugar mommy
Those PC parts aren’t gonna buy themselves.
Nah
Yeah, as an Aroace dude, I don’t make money to impress people. I got shit to do.










