Whee, time for another rant...

I get about a half dozen friend requests every week from people who want me to "make money at home" or "check out my 'other' site, which has naked pics of me" or some such other nonsense.  To these cretins, I have the following message:

The monetary system was designed to replace barter, because you can't put livestock in your wallet and carry it around.  Global society has adopted this system to compensate people for the things they do to contribute.  And this system has worked quite well - you are able to get up in the morning, after sleeping on a bed made by compensated workers, and get in your car (also made by compensated workers) and go to Starbucks for your morning coffee (developed, built, and serviced by compensated workers) before taking a trip to the mall to buy clothing, appliances, and electronics to make your life easier (also built, developed, staffed, stocked, and featuring products and services produced by, you guessed it, COMPENSATED WORKERS).  Every one of us encounters literally thousands of reasons in their daily lives, why the monetary system works.We have the internet, electricity, architecture, public and personal transportation, medical services and technology, delicious food and drink, heck, even toys and television programs, in vast amounts, because people get paid to make them.

And then there are you jack-offs.

You sit at home, sending out thousands of messages that annoy and waste the time of 99.9% of the population, while converting the other .1% into useless pieces of crap like yourself.  You contribute nothing positive to the things that make society able to work.  You take advantage of a system that owes you nothing, operates without any need of your "services", and sees no tangible benefit from your actions.  Then, presumably, you take the money you "earn" from this worthless activity, and use the self-same products and services being staffed, deveopled and produced by the rest of us, who wouldn't exist if we decided en masse to take your suggestion and "work from home".

YOU ARE A BARNACLE ON SOCIETY.  While the rest of the world is contributing to the products and services you spend money on, you are at home "providing" a service nobody wants, and "producing" a product that doesn't exist.  How does it feel to be lower on the ladder of social importance than a Taiwanese 10-year-old making sneakers for seven cents an hour?  How does it feel to know that, in a face-to-face encounter, most people would rather give $5 to a homeless person than to you?  The only thing justifying your existence are the jobs of programmers who labor endlessly to develop software that BLOCKS you.  Yes... People in society actually get PAID to find ways to stop you from doing what you do.  It's pretty close to the way we treat criminals, which you would probably be if you weren't so useless and lazy.

Modified addendum for the "naked lady website" people: OK, fine, you provide a service - a glimpse at your naked body.  You are providing a service people want.  Good for you.  However, you're still a lazy piece of shit.  Thousands of sites offer free amateur porn, made by people doing exactly what you do, nearly as "well" as you do it, and in their spare time as a hobby.  Then they get up for work the next day and CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIETY.  Unlike you.  Of course, time will take its toll on your "business", and unless you were smart enough to both use that money to get through college and to obfuscate your identity so that future employers don't find out you used to strip and suck mullet-man wang on camera for a "living", this problem will solve itself, one case at a time.