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[-] LiamTheBox@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

SOUTH KOREA!!

[-] octobob@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

This is defeatist bullshit, sorry. I'm actively building my future with my future husband by renovating a 130 year old home, and traveling the country doing industrial control wiring work. We have a dog and a roommate and friends and family we see frequently. We both love music, art, food, cooking, traveling, living in the city and seeing bands, friends, getting drinks and dinner and being social. I will walk my dog far up and down the river and to different parks and trails. I exercise and my mental and physical health is miles better than it was when I was a depressed 22 year old ten years ago.

Don't get me wrong, sometimes life fucking sucks. I've lived it. I still have to push myself really hard to achieve the goals I want and sometimes that involves working 14 hours in a pickle line getting sprayed with hot itchy shit at a steel mill in bumfuck nowhere Arkansas to make money so I can come home and build us a new kitchen for example.

I understand not everyone's circumstances can permit this type of thing. But there's a whole world of possibility and opportunity that involves waking up at the ass crack of dawn every day and working with your hands.

[-] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

2020 - the government asks us to stay home for six weeks, people riot (they really wanted haircuts I think?)

2025 - a can of corn kernals is $4, people do not riot

I hate it here

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

1980 - sugar price goes up once 10%, CIA "union" grinds economy to a halt

1991 and ever since - sugar price goes up 10% per year/month/week depend on how much "reforms" solidarność did (everything else too), nobody bats an eye

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The boots usually come out when people get too sick of all this collapsing and try to change things

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 days ago

at the rate at which we're embracing the enshitification; i expect to die on the streets well before the boots ever show up.

[-] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 3 days ago

posted: 05/01/13.

[-] UltraGreen@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

I've already come to terms that if shit is exponentially worse by the time I'm 45, I'm "retiring early" and becoming some sort of martyr.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

me too, i think a lot of us are planning on becoming "martyrs" for retirement. since we don't have actual retirement anymore. shit, we barely have anything to lose as it is right now.

[-] Libra@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago

This sounds a lot like aging, too.

[-] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

Ooft that hits

[-] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago

Almost as if things have been getting worse for a long, long time.

[-] ChillCapybara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 days ago

2013? Damn anonstradamus

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

not just america

[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

A lot of these things I can already relate to.

[-] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 days ago

Wait, y’all had the concept of job security?

-Millenials

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