Folks, ryanmercer shared a story about demoralizing work conditions, in a thread about terrible work conditions, and your first response is to question how much he's done to ameliorate it?
This was my thought too. Frequently, with liberal subjectivist-indvidualist ideology, we are guided into individualising problems to the highest degree, to the point where qualitatively existing and horrible structures of violence are not questioned at all. The onus is on the sufferer to stop suffering, rather than to change the system such that others don't have to suffer in their place. Mark Fisher wrote about this kind of issue especially in regards to mental health and depression, too.
When you see someone drowning from a capsized boat, is your first reaction to rush to a table to design a new boat that doesn't capsize that easily? Or is it to help that individual?
ryanmercer is talking individually; it's normal to respond that way as well. It doesn't mean it's their fault or responsibility to improve their situation, much like it's not the drowning person's.
