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Is it just me, or do people seem less vibrant today?
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You are seeing the effects of late stage capitalism.
People working 2 jobs and still not have as much disposable income as they had with a single income in the past.
Not having money aside of the work, no time and mental load: it kills motivation, not wanting to be creative, and your health goes downhill also and you can't afford to treat it anyway.
If you ask a 50 something about how long they think have left, yo will have half the amount than 2 generations ago.
Everything is on fire ...
What's the solution?
revolution!
Eating the rich.
Honestly aside of the joke there is not much can be done. You can start building communities and building a strong social network in your neck of the woods. But the writing is on the wall.
The next financial reset is coming and it's not going to be pretty.
"joke"
They taste awful.
"Equal distribution" of wealth sounds way better.
but i'm hungwy for despots
class war
The labor class finally going to fight in the class war they're losing.
Socialism is the long term solution, but you don't get that without first dethroning the wealthy one way or the other.
Any solution would involve the wealthiest in society making slightly less money. Therefore, it won’t happen.
that's not true btw. if we get UBI, we can spend more and companies make more money
i see them discarding us much more readily once they don't need us for their work anymore
I'm 56, I can wobble though a sub 2 hour half marathon. You're spot on about money. We have no kids, and own our house now. So can afford to have time to train, have a good diet etc etc.