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[–] MasterDeeLuke@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Most people in the US view Mark Zuckerberg as a reptilian, Elon Musk wanted to go to Ep island but wasn't deemed cool enough. Disgusting that anyone from another country would look up to them, especially from Vietnam of all places.

[–] ghost_of_faso3@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 3 days ago

Lets see, steal other peoples work and act like you did this then feed into a god/rockstar myth while paying your employees peanuts and degrading working conditions so much that working 70 hour work weeks and never seeing your family is normal then die of a preventable illness because you actually bought into the hype about yourself being a god.

Where is my full marks

[–] rando895@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 3 days ago

..."Vietnam is more than capable of producing so-called inventors. It would be rather trivial in fact. First, we must ensure wealth gets moved into the hands of the few, and that these few elite, named so only for their great wealth, are able to access superior education, healthcare, and all areas of life needed to excel. Then, siphon the wealth from the poorest, leaving most to fend for themselves. In short, all we must do is betray everything that it means to be Vietnamese, and everything we fought so hard for in the revolution"

Like, its just a prompt.

[–] demeritum@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 3 days ago

There is something wrong in the State of Vietnam…

[–] vyitnoomyr@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The funny thing about Steve Jobs glazers is they don't even really explain why we should be so impressed by him. Before my uncle (rest in piss) died he was always telling some dumb story about how Steve Jobs told TSMC he had a better chip than anything in existence, and they caught up and made it in response. Even if that was rly true why is "tricking Chinese people with actual manufacturing skills" a claim to greatness. Well it all makes sense if you watched unc be a bloated jobless psychopath surviving off investments and egregious levels of hospitality until cancer finally did what we were all too cowardly to do

[–] thefreepenguinalt@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why do you hate your uncle so much?

[–] vyitnoomyr@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Oh yeah he is a literal child molestor (my cousin) and they only told me in the last few months of his life also he tried to attack me (likely in order to feign injury) because I failed to move a car for a truck nobody told me was coming lmao

Good question

EDIT: see i still don't explain anything lel. They told me after he had alrdy been separated from me an was already in palliative care. Also I instantly clocked the situation and was far too nimble. He ended up punching a car window. Lunatic. personally I would not have told me as I'm going to use this to make a point w other people about certain family members being really weird. It's not important. I literally heard him giving one of them the "hard times make strong men" speech abt me im the months before because I am always #sneakingaround which was rly funny like bro ur unemployed. Anyways the funniest thing to do while basically burglarizing your own home to steal nothing is to vape. Ppl are really oblivious to everything I think. In the suburbs anyways. Also I feel like there is a rly high rate of this kind of abuse in suburbs and very low reporting

I kind of don't know where to truncate information so I try to stop before it gets into annoying territory. Still need to sleep more I think

Hey what if we all just agreed that we have good enough opinions for a week and logged off simultaneously to take a big nap.....

[–] Azzu@leminal.space 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

"We need to dismantle more worker protections, explicitly allow bribing government officials, create a culture that worships certain people based on their charismatic personality not on their good actions. [Etc]. That is how we can make it possible to have a "vietnamese Steve Jobs". We could also do the opposite of all these things and create a Vietnam where everyone can live a good life, not just some evil exploitative rich assholes."

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I assume it's by first achieving a sort of global cultural hegemony and then generating a weird cult of personality around assholes with big personas, so you can take people like Steve Jobs, who didn't build any computers himself, Mark Zuckerberg, who started out creating a site to rate the attractiveness of girls at his college and Elon Musk, who wasn't born in America and has invented jack shit, and call them great inventors and everyone else just goes along with it.

That answer probably wouldn't go down well in an exam though lol.

[–] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 4 days ago

One way to find out. 😬

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 days ago

about 200 words

at least 250 words

Well, you could not do stupid shit like that. More seriously you could just let business men run your country and pay them to move there. Then some will take you up on your offer and continue to sequester assets away from society and into their private control.

[–] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 4 days ago

Having a "Steve Jobs" is realistically not desirable. He had a strong vision for his products, but also was a huge asshole. It should be possible to find someone who can make good products and isn't an asshole. Although with the state of the American tech industry, maybe it is unlikely to happen in America.

[–] redsunrising@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] kredditacc@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 3 days ago

Translated. But I assure you: The original question is in Vietnamese. It's a real entrance exam this year, from the Literature subject.