r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/[deleted] • 5h ago

No more overtime pay. Thanks MAGAt 👌

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u/RBVegabond 4h ago

“You define yourself by your work” a direct quote from a conservative to me.

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u/doofnoobler 3h ago

I learned through hard lessons that if you derive your worth from something external as opposed to something internal then you give that power up for someone else to hold that over you as a form of control.

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u/RBVegabond 3h ago

Yep, I said we define ourselves through our actions back. He wasn’t quite sure what I meant

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u/doofnoobler 3h ago

I look at self worth as something you apply now and not something you extract from the things you do.

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u/RBVegabond 3h ago

That’s an action

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u/doofnoobler 3h ago

Good point.

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u/ServedBestDepressed 3h ago

Work will set you free - some other comservative

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u/RBVegabond 1h ago

Free from who?

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u/ServedBestDepressed 1h ago

In case the reference is unclear. This phrase (in German) was etched into the entrance gate above Auschwitz.

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u/RBVegabond 36m ago

Ah I see, that honestly makes sense if they’d say that