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MetaKnight145

@Tragiclady  
The trillionares who, through shady business practices and blocking of important legislation, made it all but impossible to get a decent job.  
When there is a person who has spent 20 years in IT with mountains of experience and the college education to go with it who is forced to work at Walmart because he can’t find a job, something is inherently wrong.
Tragiclady
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@Background Pony #79BD  
Is survival still a basic human right if someone deliberately chooses to do nothing but sit around and consume? Does trying to make them do even a bit of work go against their rights?
 
If I could do nothing all day and still get food and electricity and shelter, I’d be all over that if I could. When hundreds or thousands of people do that, who pays to keep it all going?
Background Pony #1899
@Background Pony #A3E8  
Yeah, you have a pretty solid argument. In my opinion, I don’t think that the things needed for survival should cost money, surviving is a basic human right. I agree with what you said about hobbies, but unfortunately, you need money to do a lot of hobbies. I am 100% with a lot of what you’re saying, but I guess I just have issue with the fact that food, water, sleep, and shelter are considered commodities as opposed to rights. There is no way you can justify homelessness being a thing.
Amber

To be honest, part of why I don’t have high hopes is because I am extremely anti-capitalism, so this episode seems like it’s going to be capitalist propaganda, and that does not make me happy.
 
Try to look at it this way:
 
The brother apparently has some sort of complex that needs to get over with and the episode might be more about that than the fact he has to look for a job.
 
In any case, let’s be honest. You can’t really expect the episode ending with the brother deciding to stay in the house forever and not contributing with anything or helping her sister with something if he stays. She does has her limits after all.
Background Pony #5EFC
@Background Pony #79BD  
My opinion on the matter:  
  1. You can’t “freeload” forever, because your supporters sooner or later will die or lose a temper.  
  2. Point of having own source of income is just to survive. It’s comparable with food, water, air and sleep. “Being useful member of society” is bullshit. Job isn’t goal in and of itself, it’s just means of getting money. If you’re doing nothing but work, sleep and eat, then you’re not living, just existing. Only if you have a hobby, then you are truly alive. It’s can be anything: drawing amateur art and posting it, writing stories online, programming simple freeware or OSS applications. Heck, even building Minecraft castle and posting schematic or screenshot, or speedrunning games.
Background Pony #1899
@Background Pony #A3E8  
I’m not trying to derail the thread, I saw some comments relating to the moral of this episode, and I thought I would weigh in. I went on a brief tangent in my last comment, but brought it back to the subject at hand. I’m just trying to give my two cents on the matter.
Background Pony #1899
@Ihhh  
Let me explain. The basic plot is that Fluttershy’s brother comes to move in with Fluttershy, but Fluttershy wants to have him get a job, right? Now, in my opinion, the idea that everyone has a place in society, and that we are all cogs in a machine is a very fascist ideology, and if you look at the economy, you will see that America isn’t exactly in a warm spot. So this episode comes across to me as a push to get people to get jobs when they grow up. It kinda reminds me of a Spongebob episode, except Spongebob doesn’t take itself seriously, so it was funny when Spongebob had that plot.
Background Pony #1899
To be honest, part of why I don’t have high hopes is because I am extremely anti-capitalism, so this episode seems like it’s going to be capitalist propaganda, and that does not make me happy.
Background Pony #5EFC
@FSin  
>Impudent person found a job  
>He’s waiting for salary  
>Salary is here  
>Zero dollars is used for paying for food or bills, why would he waste it on that? His relatives already covered that.  
>Wasted all the money for alcohol instead  
>Sleeps for a week  
>Realizes he’s already fired
 
Um… “Useful member of society”, yay?
Ihhh
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@Background Pony #A3E8  
Seasons 1 and 2 had a lot more average episodes than any other season, and season 3, while it did have 6 bad episodes, also had some of the best episodes of the series, including the premiere and finale, which I feel get way too much hate, though I know it’s only a vocal minority.
 
And what do you mean “it’s wasted on the plot straight out of South Park”? A synopsis is always oversimplified, the execution is always more important, and are you saying south park sucks?
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@Background Pony #142F  
I don’t think you know what a freeloader is.  
It’s a person who takes advantage of others’ generosity without giving anything in return.  
If they relay on him to do stuff for them he’s helping them, so not freeloading.  
And if the reason he lives with this is by somthing he can’t control that is also not freeloading, he has to be taking advantage of them because he doesn’t want to do anything to be a freeloader.
Background Pony #AA4B
It would be great if this was more of a deconstruction. Like, he’s a freeloader is because he’s unable to get a job for reasons beyond his control, or since Fluttershy moved, his parents won’t let him leave the house because they’ll get lonely or they rely too much on him to get their day to day stuff at home done while they go out and work and have fun on their own.
 
Looks like that won’t happen though, but it would be a better episode, in my opinion.
 
Though hopefully they’ll acknowledge that he’s not like that because he wants to be.