Ok, IRA is a strictly amercan thing (I guess) sooo… Not to be rude or anything, but you’re doing a couple of things wrong here. Im afraid Its not that the capitalism game is rigged, its just that you are bad at playing it. Stocks beat inflation by ~5-7%/year if you use them right (which is putting money YOU WONT NEED in another 10+ years in there EACH MONTH and not even lookimg at it for the bare minimum of ~10y).
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that its not just sugar and plastic
Damn are you an american? Cos it sure as hell does sound like an almost exclusively american thing to have junk food be cheaper than normal fruits/veggies/potatoes/meat/fish, lol 🤣
Why do you do them? Not like I am judging you for it, you do whatever interests you, but how do you manage to not get the crippling feeling of sheer purpuselessness of whatever it is youre doing? Like your novel is probably going to get read by 2 people and your figure is probably going to be times worse than whatever level professionals and large industries are at. Also PTSD from uni? How? Unhinged topics? How do you manage to not run out of things to say 3 mins into the convo really? There really isn’t much going on iny life + I don’t know how to make anything go on (not without unlimited money, sigh). When I talk with my coworkers its just about stuff that happened at work and upcoming work events and there isnt really much I can tell them that they dont already know and our convo typically goes like me/him just stating plain facts and me/him responding with “hmmm, yeah, cool, nice or that’s crazy”
While you do what? Just sit at the table there and not drink?
Wdym by “ultrasnobby crowd”. I personally can’t help but question whether I am a snob or the people around me are uncultired cattle sometimes lol 🤣
And what? You just approach a random person and say hi)?? Is that how it really looks like?
What were you doing when you were my age (24)? I feel like everything is just a random blur now and I have to push myself to give even a slightest amount of fuck about anything. Its like you can’t be passionate anymore, can be stressed though 🤟from dick bosses at work. I go home and I can just sit for hours or/and fall asleep til like 4-6 Pm or so
Fair enough, where do you work?
How did you use to go out? Like just go to a neareat cafe/bar and get drunk in there?
I don’t really have any preconceived notions about the answer
Don’t you think its a bit not nice to tell the person who asks questions to fuck off, because you think that they have an oppinion opposite to yours?
sigh I think this place is an echo chamber
I am not going to argue over the definition of the word “luxury” but on an individual level (not populational!!!) how does it make sense to still choose to have a child (excluding accidents, rape and lack of education!!!) in THIS frigging economy lmao.
__>shoots himself in the foot
__>“nooooo why is there a bullethole in my foot”
So there’s rarely an “We already live paycheck to paycheck” situation and its more often than not accidental pregnancies? I mean come on… Who the heck cannot afford condoms or birthcontrol? If you can’t then you probably shouldn’t be having sex in the first place, to be honest. Again, not like anybody’s forcing you (excluding rape)
Mentioned it in other replies, there are cases where adult people clearly do understand the consequences while not being forced into it by any 3rdparty. I exclude the cases where they are raped or uneducated
Well like I said here, we don’t take those cases into account. What drives people who do understand the consequences to do it and then complain?
Well, charity is nice ofc, but don’t you think they should have put more thought before mindlessly making a baby?
It doesnt really conclusively tell us that I have an agenda and I don’t
I think for the most part this is not because they can’t but becauae they choose to live up or higher than their means 💁