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i got this meme from @internetsavedme2 on instagram

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[-] M500@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago

I get that life is safer, cleaner, and more comfortable for almost everyone on earth.

But, I wish I could decide to spend a few months not working and living in the mountains or jungle without any serious work or financial repercussions.

My wife and I are at a place where we have a long term plan to save and buy land away from the city.

I can’t wait until I’m out in the country side and and can go outside to nature rather than concrete.

[-] DeGandalf@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

without any serious work

this part sadly only works, if you've already worked your ass off beforehand.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 29 points 1 year ago

Have you tried being born rich?

Meh, you can be pretty middle class and afford to take a month or two off of work.

I could do it with my PTO if I really wanted.

"worked your ass off beforehand"

Criticism potentially not valid if you've tricked a corporation to pay you to shitpost.

[-] ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

👌👍 cope with the reality that 30% of the country are home owners with wealth and not living week to week.

[-] doleo@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago
[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The best part is there's a lot more ignorance and disingenunity in the statement than that.

Unless he's just saying homeowners don't work hard for what they have.

[-] ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Have you tried being born rich?

That's what it's being addressed. That a middle class exists and can and do take a month off at a time. They went off into left field. Try to keep up.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I know your whole schtick is being a bit of a dumb bastard that confuses himself for a rationalist, but the phrase "working their ass off beforehand" applies to the job(s) they work and earned with personal effort and the familial responsibilities they have, unlike the idle rich.

[-] RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Most people aren't middle class.

[-] RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

That's kind of the point, though. The fact that you can't just...live in the world without participating in a destructive and exploitative economic system first is disgusting and immeasurably immoral and unethical.

[-] avonarret1@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

That sounds wonderful. I often fantasize about living on a mountain side in a cottage with a porch where I sit with my wife on a crisp morning, just enjoying the sun rise, a coffee and the comfort of being in the moment with my closet ally on earth.

I wish I had the money to do that someday.

I congratulate you and your wife to make a dream come true. I believe, if you long so much and can make it happen, it will be worth it and it is something to work for.

[-] M500@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry to mislead, we are far from the dream. But we have a plan at the very least and we can, for the first time, really see a path to get there. We still have years and years to go.

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