What is there to live for when life is completely rigged against us?
The rich always get richer, the middle class gets poorer, and the poor stay poor.
Rules, laws, everything- is designed to keep the masses sick, poor and enslaved.
If you are the top 20% of ppl, then you live great or pretty good lives (income >100K).
But for the rest of us- the bottom 80%, and especially the bottom 50% (ie HALF of us)- living paycheck to paycheck or close to (bottom 70%- ie a small disaster can know knock us out)- life is shit.
Just WTF is there to live for when you’re always struggling financially? Let alone struggling mentally and socially?
I just don’t see how “life is so great” or “wonderful” when you’re poor, or poor and sick.
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It’s definitely a rigged game. The only way I’ve been able to beat it thus far is by changing the goal. I’m not going for happiness, that’s a fucking trap just like chasing money. Instead I’m doing what matters to me, and at the end of the day, and hopefully the end of my life, I’ll be able to sneer knowing that no rich fuck came close to what I was. Of course none of this changes the fact that life is excruciating and I could kill myself at the drop of a pin, but at least I won by my rules, suicide and all.
“Instead I’m doing what matters to me, ”
>>What are you doing? Or striving?
Nothing earth shattering, nothing that’ll ever make a difference. But my point is I’m living by my code. I didn’t sell my soul when I could’ve (working for the fucking military), and that’s something that no rich fuck can claim because selling their soul is what they do.
I think you mentioned something similar, how you could’ve been an asshole and gotten ahead, maybe even rich, but you didn’t because you have principles. I think anyone who can make a statement like that has already beaten the rich because they don’t have principles. Sure they win “their” game where the goal is to make money at all costs, but you win “your” game where the goal is to NOT be one of them.
Agreed Eternal…ya sometimes it feels pointless to go on, but I do for my family mainly.
While where I presently live is a major problem for me, even after I move (hopefully in the spring or by summer), my life won’t be dramatically better…since I don’t have a high income job.
I do have a side-gig which is showing a lot of promise, but I haven’t been able to work on it as I planned. If I can get that going, then it’ll change everything for me…so that’s another reason I keep struggling, on the hope that I will succeed and then life will be easy for me.
But ya it’s pretty shit if you’re not rich or upper middle class. Even shiiter if you live in a nation with no Maid or free health care or social programs to help if you’re in a bad situation.
Even Maid isn’t foolproof…while in most cases you are gone within an hour or two if not sooner, sometimes it can take 24 hours and it wasn’t easy for the patients who opted for it.
I’m really hoping they will have ‘perfected’ the process by the time I need it (ideally many years if not decades from now)….because I want my turn to be quick and easy. It really comes down to the drugs they use and the expertise of the medical professionals…still better than doing it DIY.
At the same time, I’m also ready to pull the plug on my life…I’ve seen enough and know, unless I win the lottery, my life isn’t going to improve that much. If I lose my closest family members…that’ll probably be it for me…my friends are ok, but not worth living for and continuing to struggle/suffer for nothing.
If I find a great ‘soulmate’…that might keep me going but odds are low, esp if I can’t improve my present situation…so I’m stuck in a rut and not really getting anywhere.
I’m actually glad I don’t have kids (though I did have that chance when I was younger)….this way there’s no other attachments holding me back or people to really miss me when I’m gone.