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Sparsile  ·  4455 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job

Thanks for taking the time to pick apart his article like that!

    dispensers of for profit self-help can only profit on someone who has a deficiency they can provide a remedy for. What better way then to create that deficiency in the ready?

I see now how he can accomplish this through writing his articles like that (e.g. playing with your emotions). I have to admit, he is pretty successful at this. Or perhaps I'm just a gullible soul that needs a crash course in critical reading x_x I'll be keeping this in mind if I ever decide to read similar stuff.

At least he did convince me that I want to (at least eventually) work for myself. Though probably not with that article alone.