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Meet the busser who’s worked at the same pancake house for 54 years

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Re: Meet the busser who’s worked at the same pancake house for 54 years

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> I recently spent a month backpacking through India, and the people with the most have nots were some of the warmest, happiest, and inviting people I've ever met in my entire life. When you're old you'll look back and cringe at the thought that you ever said things like this. It's not that I don't believe you, or that your reported experience is not genuine to you. It's that it reflects a fundamentally superficial i…

Nick, are you this miserable / condescending in your daily life and with clients? Or just when you preach to strangers on public forums? I ignored your last response, because you don't seem to be a happy person, despite all of the adversity you've overcome in your life. There are many happy people in this world less fortunate than yourself, I hope you find some peace.

Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of how bad you consider another comment.

Re: Meet the busser who’s worked at the same pancake house for 54 years

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nick, are you this miserable / condescending in your daily life and with clients? Or just when you preach to strangers on public forums? I ignored your last response, because you don't seem to be a happy person, despite all of the adversity you've overcome in your life. There are many happy people in this world less fortunate than yourself, I hope you find some peace.

The discussion started when you projected your own thoughts and biases into the faces of people in developing countries that you don't really know, and assumed they don't actually want the financial advantages you enjoy. Now you've projected similarly onto me, who you also don't know, and decided I'm not a happy person. In both cases, of course, you actually have no idea how happy the people you're interacting with a…

Please don't cross into personal attack either. That's not why we're here.
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