Reddit reviews Disposable Chopsticks, pack of 40 pair

Response I would make at themotte, if I was not in self-imposed exile

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> I work at a large company that provides free disposable silverware. About 20% of our workforce is Asian. The leadership is mostly white. I don't have a specific problem with that, just relevant to the example. At a company-wide meeting, an Asian guy raises his hand and politely asks for chopsticks along with the silverware. Wild. Applause. People had been thinking about needing this forever, but cutting through the bureaucracy was apparently undoable without the CEO's own ear. Here, it wasn't leadership that was necessary, but representation. Once the people had some level of representation at high levels, their reality more closely approximated their cultural needs.

I want to take a moment to talk about a more mundane element of this, rather than the culture war aspect.

Amazon lists a pack of 40 chopsticks at $6. 22 working days per month means that that's $3/month to bring your own chopsticks to work.

Meanwhile, well, I'm going to go out on a limb here but given the details provided (white leadership, 20% asian, company-wide meeting where CEO gets talked at by leaf-node employees, and thunderous applause for virtue signalling) I'm going to assume that the company is Google. I'm going to further engage in some stereotyping and assume that the person making this comment is an engineer or some other relatively highly paid individual.

That means that their total comp is going to be easily above $150,000.

I can't fathom the mentality of someone who makes above $150,000 per year, and yet claims to be oppressed because someone isn't giving them, for free, something that costs $3/mo. This is absolutely insane, the pinnacle of abdication of agency.

Like, for comparison, let me list all the things I have at my desk, that I've paid out of my own pocket:

• $800 big ass monitor (because work wouldn't give me one, and it's important for professionals to have good tools)
  
• $250 fancyass keyboard (same reasoning)
  
• boxes of cereal for breakfast
  
• Box of disposable straws (because fuck your straw ban)
  
• 12-pack of coke zero (Not anymore, but I used to, because my employer only stocked diet coke)
  
• 4-pack of monster zero ultra (sometimes you don't want coffee)
  
• 30-pack of canadian chocolate bars (they are better than US chocolate bars)
  
• Personal coffee mug that I brought from home (Not anymore, because they tend to go missing, but I used to)
  
  But this individual, who in all likelihood makes more than double what I do, not only can he not be arsed to spend LITERALLY ONE SINGLE UNITED STATES DOLLAR to get himself some chopsticks, but this is such a major problem for him that he wastes the CEO's time over it
  
  I don't understand this mentality, not one bit.