Sadly, most people don’t recognize that, and will bash you for telling the truth. If you aren’t successful, then it is YOUR fault, etc. Not the fact that wages have been stagnant for the past 40 years, since 1978. Not the fact that good jobs with pensions and most benefits have been eliminated. Not the fact that unions have been eliminated for the most part in the US. Not the fact that the wealthy are literally stealing from the working poor and middle class. Not the fact that housing, higher education, and healthcare costs have skyrocketed a million percent in the last decades.
But nooooo, if you aren’t successful and doing well, then it’s your fault / you are lazy / you must be doing something wrong, etc etc.
Anyway, this turned into a rant. Glad you recognize the problem too. I often feel like I’m alone on an island of truth and everyone else is on the main continent, fooled by the mass media and gobbling up the dribble mandated down to them by the elites that control them. And us.
Ah well, what the hell can we do but be depressed?
Dittos all the way ED. Absurd healthcare administration costs, a dearth of affordable housing, excessive educational administration costs all have us in a bind. Safe and affordable housing now means two or three generations living under a single roof or else a room mate or two for each of us. The richest love every bit of this.
Thanks to a near 80% union exodus and/or offshoring a person must now view themselves as a contractor even while working for a paycheck or even more extreme, go over to self employment.
While employers worry about finding suitable employees, I have found that decent employers are extremely rare. Employers have about a one quarter mentality, unless you luck out big time.
Someday, hopefully not anytime soon, I may have go on the .357 retirement plan, unless by some means I still can’t quite see yet, I can actually afford to live past my working days. I just don’t know yet.
And of course don’t forget, the only kind of healthcare many of us (certainly me and those I work for) can afford is self care, clinics, and cash only off grid doctors, which by the way has worked very well for us anyways. But basically any big health hiccup is curtains unless poverty is well tolerated. Which brings up my .357 healthcare plan. Again I am working very diligently to stall this outcome too. So far, very good, but who knows?
Ah yes, the .357 healthcare plan. Wouldn’t it be funny if we went to cash out our retirement fund and they actually gave us a gun? Well, it wouldn’t be “funny,” just sad really.
I am afraid to own one lest I be tempted to do it so easily, and at the spur of the moment. I do not want to die; I just want my life to be easier, happier, with love and friendships and security, of which I have none at this point in my life.
To answer your question: for some people life is prison all the time, it is prison for all people some of the time. I now think birth control is an ethical imperative all the time.
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I feel more like a lab rat in a cage with no escape on the horizon.
Why do you feel like this? Can you give me more details about your life or the link to your posts if you have written about it?
Yes.. Not for everyone, but for far too many.
Freedom is an illusion. Without money and free time, it means nothing.
Only a lucky few experience true freedom. The rest of us are stuck in various cells.
Yes, it is for the bottom 80% of people.
You got that right.
I also meant to say, good to someone else recognizes it too.
Sadly, most people don’t recognize that, and will bash you for telling the truth. If you aren’t successful, then it is YOUR fault, etc. Not the fact that wages have been stagnant for the past 40 years, since 1978. Not the fact that good jobs with pensions and most benefits have been eliminated. Not the fact that unions have been eliminated for the most part in the US. Not the fact that the wealthy are literally stealing from the working poor and middle class. Not the fact that housing, higher education, and healthcare costs have skyrocketed a million percent in the last decades.
But nooooo, if you aren’t successful and doing well, then it’s your fault / you are lazy / you must be doing something wrong, etc etc.
Anyway, this turned into a rant. Glad you recognize the problem too. I often feel like I’m alone on an island of truth and everyone else is on the main continent, fooled by the mass media and gobbling up the dribble mandated down to them by the elites that control them. And us.
Ah well, what the hell can we do but be depressed?
Dittos all the way ED. Absurd healthcare administration costs, a dearth of affordable housing, excessive educational administration costs all have us in a bind. Safe and affordable housing now means two or three generations living under a single roof or else a room mate or two for each of us. The richest love every bit of this.
Thanks to a near 80% union exodus and/or offshoring a person must now view themselves as a contractor even while working for a paycheck or even more extreme, go over to self employment.
While employers worry about finding suitable employees, I have found that decent employers are extremely rare. Employers have about a one quarter mentality, unless you luck out big time.
Someday, hopefully not anytime soon, I may have go on the .357 retirement plan, unless by some means I still can’t quite see yet, I can actually afford to live past my working days. I just don’t know yet.
And of course don’t forget, the only kind of healthcare many of us (certainly me and those I work for) can afford is self care, clinics, and cash only off grid doctors, which by the way has worked very well for us anyways. But basically any big health hiccup is curtains unless poverty is well tolerated. Which brings up my .357 healthcare plan. Again I am working very diligently to stall this outcome too. So far, very good, but who knows?
Well that was a rant.
Ah yes, the .357 healthcare plan. Wouldn’t it be funny if we went to cash out our retirement fund and they actually gave us a gun? Well, it wouldn’t be “funny,” just sad really.
I am afraid to own one lest I be tempted to do it so easily, and at the spur of the moment. I do not want to die; I just want my life to be easier, happier, with love and friendships and security, of which I have none at this point in my life.
yes
slave to money, feelings, thoughts, etc
To answer your question: for some people life is prison all the time, it is prison for all people some of the time. I now think birth control is an ethical imperative all the time.
Yes, then I wouldn’t have been born, and I wouldn’t have to endure a lifetime of suffering.
I have a theory police will take over the world is 2019. I can’t even look at the number 2020 and onward because you already know it’s gone to hell
Elites are at the top, the rest of us are mindlessly chasing the carrot of ‘success’. Society is sick.
Absolutely!