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unfortunately we have created a society where everyone works. You need two people making a 100k to own property. I agree I do jack shit and I feel like I can't save much. And since we both work the weekends just turn into catching up on cleaning. Free time has plummeted. I'm happy to have a house but man I'm burnt out.
If we are all gonna work i need a 4 day or 3 day work week man.
!!!! I try to tell this to people too and they tell me I’m anxious/getting ahead of myself.
truly incomprehensible to me. My dad was the only one working while I was growing up and he as somehow able to provide for myself as well as my other siblings.
It’s almost gotten to a point where I cannot talk about these things because it quickly becomes a conversation about my “inability to adapt” or whatever other bullshit
Can't sleep when I want. Can't wear what I want. Can't create what I want. Can't afford to fix most of the ever-mounting problems that take up more and more time and mental bandwidth.
Feels great to live in the land of the free.
my mother is a liberal, who mirrors the online chuds for all LGBTQ-related issues, but she did say something very clever to me when I was growing up that still sticks with me. She made the point that the liberal freedoms, such as the right to assembly, right to "free" speech, right to protest and freedom of religion are all very nice, but outside of the West/Europe, they don't really hold much sway, since people in most other places are way more interested in the right to live in their house, and right to clean drinking water, and this was one of the reasons why people from poor countries who moved to europe would often be at odds with the governments here, since "our" governments don't care to enforce any such rights, and instead focus only on the negative rights rather than positive ones.
3 days, <= 20 hours