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You're desperate. That's good.

Desperation built this world. It's the number one motivator of life.

Desperation mixed with insecurity can seem like depression, but if you're really depressed, out of money and with limited prospects. It's time to go ask someone for help.

Alternative ideas: Can you make money on bug bounties? Can you apply to local universities for tutoring? Can you do some gig work just to chip away at the bills?

Most of our lives are spent spinning our wheels. What separates us from or former selves is how we prepare for take off.

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> You're desperate. That's good.

> Desperation built this world. It's the number one motivator of life.

I am fairly skeptical of the claim that "desperation built this world" as a rationalization for why desperation is good. Human actions built this world. Desperation may or may not be a motivator for actions, but if it is, it does not even seem to be the main motivator. Humans also build things because they want to solve their problems, help others, or even just because they want to build things for the sake of building things.

Desperation also leads to crime, violence, suicide and many other bad things that destroy this world.

Maybe GP could have framed it more like: "Here's how can you use that for good" rather than simply "That's good". Because I agree, desperation is not good in the aggregate.

You don't understand because privilege built your world. I guarantee it.

> I guarantee it.

You don't know me, you don't know my life, you don't know what I've been through. The fact that someone has been through bad situations doesn't in itself make them better than others. Being desperate is not a good thing, it's not something to be sought or celebrated - it is something that just happens to you, and it simply sucks. Nothing more, nothing less.

Perhaps you've grew up in a privileged environment and don't know what real desperation is. I can't think of any other reason why you would view it with such rose-tinted glasses. Desperation is so cool and productive when it happens to others, eh?

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