…and the death of resentments:
RIP "Privilege" and the Death of Resentments
— Justine Bateman (@JustineBateman) November 27, 2024
This is a good day to tell you that the term “privileged” is over. For about ten years now, this term has been used as a weapon against others. That’s over now. This characterization of someone as “coming from a place of privilege“…
I never really thought much about Justine Bateman except as Michael J Fox’s “sister” until recently, but I have come in the past couple of months to adore her. I hope she is right.
Many have, I think (and sadly, probably many have come to hate her, for perhaps the same reasons). She seems to have aged like a very, very fine wine.
Yes. And I think that is mainly due to her having resisted the common Hollywood practice of “having some work done” in an ultimately doomed effort to arrest aging and winding up, instead, as an uncanny and off-putting caricature of one’s former self.
She is, or at least was, a smoker.
That said, she turned out to be the voice of reason in the Keaton family, not Alex.
I’m retiring in a few weeks. After more than 50 years of work, it’s time. Over the course of my career, I found that the harder I worked, the more “privileged” I became. Imagine that.
Congratulations. Financial success comes from hard work and delayed gratification. You may find that breaking out of the saving mode in order to enjoy what you’ve built is going to be your biggest challenge. What a terrible problem to have. Enjoy!
Congrats also, and ditto on the above. We’ve found the same; spending just doesn’t seem to come naturally, even when it’s completely sensible. Have to almost force it sometimes.
If you want an easy life, you chose the hard path. If you want a hard life, you choose the easy path.
Counterintuitive but true. Congratulations!
One can only hope.
Given that today is Thanksgiving Day, I was happy to stumble over her X entry which says that no matter what your situation is, you have it better than someone else.
Then: ”We all nearly starved. Hallelujah!”
Now: “I don’t really like turkey but I’ll have a slice. The stuffing’s OK but there’s too much pepper this year.”
Well, I’m trying to retire. Letting go is proving somewhat difficult.
I hear you. I was the same. I was financially ready to retire at 65 but waited until 69 because I wasn’t ready to give up my “identity” of engineer. Eventually I got tired of chasing deadlines and writing reports and decided it was time. You’ll get there when you are ready.
Yeah, I’m 76. Couple of batches of stuff recently didn’t go smooth so I decided we need to do something about this. It is difficult when you work from home though. Essentially no business overheads and no commutes.
I had the same problem. I wasn’t ready to give up my life’s dream job – never thought of retirement……
Until………..
The project was threatened with shutdown and I was told I would be laid off along with most everyone else. At that point I had to come to grips with being retired. I found I didn’t have to work very hard to deal with that. Clock time is important.
So they found some more money and delayed layoffs for a year. Don’t know what will happen next fiscal year because it depends upon NASA budgets.
NOW I’m HOPING to get laid off – I’d get a nice severance package. So I decided to work one more year. If they laid me off – perfect.
But if not…..I’m retiring.
One of the downsides to retirement is the lack of excuses for not doing things on the wife’s Honey I list. I knew a guy who had a huge Honey Do list of his refrigerator door. At the top of the list was printed “You think work is hard, try retirement. At the bottom of the list was “And no days off.”
One problem I’ve noticed is, too many people believe there’s a “secret” to success, like a secret handshake or codebook, that’s being kept from the unsuccessful. No such thing as “talent,” you see.
Death of Resentments?
Hey, it is only 23 days until the Airing of Grievances followed by the Feats of Strength.
Breaking news: privilege is not dead. It is protesting that it is feeling “happy.”