I was feeling down about finding a job and I wanted to find motivation during my job search and feel more optimistic about my job prospects. So, I watched what is considered to be a motivational film of a man fighting against all odds to make it.
I felt even more down after watching the film than I was before. People have been conditioned to only think about themselves. To compete against each other for wealth and titles. In reality they’re competing against each other in a race to the bottom. Every time we compete with someone for work to provide for ourselves the system condemns the other to a life where they’re unable to provide for themselves. 100 people apply for a job only 1 gets it, what happens to the other 99?
Spoiler Alert
All I could think about at the end of the movie wasn’t his success story but all the people just like him at the shelter who didn’t make it, all the people that had to sleep outside because there were no more beds at the shelter. Those struggling to make ends meet, those living poverty. One person made it while countless others didn’t. How little do you have to care about others to find that motivational or inspirational?
So many things could’ve easily gone wrong, what if he was never allowed in the taxi? If he was never given a chance? If he never got the job? Then what would’ve happened? Because that’s more likely to happen to someone than everything falling into place like that.
Garbage movie, nothing but propaganda and survivors bias. Made me more antiwork than I was before.