Has American respect for expertise and hard work depleted?

[Oceanicpuppy]

You have jackass who didn't pass 10th grade science trying to "school" scientist on Cilmate Change and Flat Earth.

You have people voting for a president who doesn't even read his briefings and doesn't understand American laws.

You got people comparing music artist who vocals are created in a studio to composers who worked years on their craft.

You got people who are famous for nothing just looking good or being a shytty person.

Is this new or has this always been the case?

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

Pretty much. If you really look at it is clear society has somehow got wrapped up in what isn't real (what they see and hear on the and the internet)

 

[Roid Jones]

Expertise? Hard work? we off that all I have to do is think positive thoughts and everything will be ok

 

[AlainLocke]

American respect for hardwork and expertise...

American science was advanced by Nazis...

And the country was built by slaves...

 

[BmoreGorilla]

America was never about hard work. It was always about getting ahead with as little effort as possible and killing anyone in the way

 

[eastsideTT]

The only thing that America collectively is good at is guaranteed profit scams. Hard work? most of our economy is propped up by one group sticking their hand in another group's pocket. Trillions of dollars of credit card and student loan debt, entire industries designed to break down every facet or necessity of life into hot commodities, and nickel and dime people for them. America is the biggest scam going. The powers that be turning basic necessities of life into unattainable luxuries, and driving people into debt just to be able to get a taste of them. And then turning around and making a profit off of the collection of said debt.

 

[ignorethis]

It has decreased but that's probably mostly because of social conditioning.

In every major city in there are trapper scammers, robber, strippers, prostitutes showing off lavish lifestyles with very little work involved on social media. These people are famous in there city's as well as outside their cities through social media.

The regular 9-5er no matter how straight edge they appear to be, often envy that lifestyle and wish they could attain it.

All of our music and media shyts on the working class, but more specifically the "working man". No boy grows up wanting to be a "working man", the few that do it's because they had male role models that lionized that role to them, but a lot of time kids will see their parents work themselves to death and never get a ahead, then tell themselves ”I'm not doing that same shyt"