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[-] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 74 points 3 months ago

You want to follow your not-money-generating dreams? Become a philosopher? Travel the world? Just enjoying your life? Well, you better be rich or you can forget about it.

The rich didn't just steal everything they can from us, they made sure that we suffer if we don't work for them.

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago

Yes. Work or die. It’s violence.

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 months ago
[-] Donkter@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

And yet ...

[-] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago

Just think about it: the rich made the one way people had to generate generational wealth too expensive to acquire - the family home.

I was lucky enough to get the money for a house, but I don't see the next generation being able to afford that.

Work your whole life, suffer in poverty when you get to old to work, leave nothing but dept to the next generation.

That will be the new norm now.

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

I grew up under subsistence minimum. We grew our own food, and even then we often didn't have enough. Honestly, without free school lunches things would've likely looked way different. Growing up keenly aware of that sort of financial distress is fucking terrible, and I don't wish it on anyone.

I'm alright now, decently well paid, and I do, but it's still obvious how the money grubbing elite is trying to chip away at the rest of us bit by bit and it makes me so furious. There's no way in hell I'll ever own a home myself.

Family? Not in a million years. No child deserves to live in the world we've built. It's unethical.

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 3 months ago
[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 months ago

You forgot the homeless part

[-] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 3 months ago

Yes but at least we have videogames and porn

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 33 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sometimes I think that my life isn't much different than being a medieval peon slaving away for their liege but then I remember they didn't have goon caves. Poor bastards.

[-] daddy32@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Yes, it's quite balanced, so we don't complain that much.

[-] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago

a great summary of "wage of labor and capital"

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Stop posting silly memes and get back to work, plebe!

[-] tastetheplague@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago

I'm not capable of providing value to anyone. Not my kids, not my soon-to-be ex wife, not my employer. I'm nothing but a drain on everyone in my life and when I die, I will do it penniless and alone.

[-] sepiroth154@feddit.nl 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You are not your productivity. Also, you are not a dad that ran away from their children. You maybe could be better, but you definitely could be worse.

[-] hlqxz@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

Life is sad. Humans really saw oceans and mountains and thought we should build more.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago
[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago

It can probably run Doom if you're dedicated enough

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Mountains are made of rocks. Steal the rocks, trick them into thinking, port Doom onto it. Boom, done.

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