• floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    66·
    9 days ago

    He’s got a job and a family; how does he do it?
    Balances work with his wife’s underwhelming cooking
    He’s got all the answers that I wanna know
    How can I be what I am, but 40 years ago?
    Gee whiz, he got it and he flaunts
    I am the thing he is, but he is it when I want
    I guess it’s true that some people really got to fight to survive
    And some people are white guys in 1985

    Bo Burnham - 1985

    • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      23·
      9 days ago

      I don’t wanna pay for anything
      Clothes and food and drugs for free
      If it was 1970
      I’d have a job at a factory
      I am a man that’s made of meat
      And you’re on the internet looking at feet
      I hate almost everything that I see
      And I just wanna disappear

      Viagra Boys - Man Made of Meat

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        8 days ago

        If it was 1970

        I’d have a job at a factory

        I recommend anyone nostalgic for the factory jobs of the 1970s to watch the movie “Blue Collar”.

        The frustrating thing about nostalgia is that it’s got you pining for the rotten deals of yesteryear instead of organizing for a less-shitty sandwich next year.

        • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          7 days ago

          I don’t think there writer is really nostalgic for factory work, labor was already in decline by then, but it did allow a middle class to buy homes and have pensions. There aren’t any entry level jobs that offer that three days, and we’re still trading our bodies for money in similar ways (Amazon warehouses, door dashing, forgoing health and dental because of costs, etc).

    • abc@suppo.fi
      4·
      8 days ago

      Amazing song like pretty much everything else in that set.