I’ve been unemployed for almost 6 months now. I wasn’t even paid enough while I was working, but now, I’ve depleted all my savings, my credit card balance is going up, I’m not even sure how much longer I can keep collecting unemployment, I still have absolutely zero job prospects, I’m having a hard time affording anything that gives me genuine enjoyment.

Beyond money, I don’t have a good social life. I really only have acquaintances who would all rather be with other people. Me thinking about finding love feels like me thinking about being a billionaire, basically just a fantasy so far from the conditions of my life, it’s absurd.

If I finally get a job, what then? I still have to scrounge to financially recover? I’m still alone? What do I even have to live for?

  • Mardoniush [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    201·
    4 months ago

    Vengeance. When capitalism makes life intolerable, Living is a Revolutionary Act.

    Don’t let the bastards get away with it. Do what you can so others don’t suffer as you have.

    • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      101·
      4 months ago

      When capitalism makes life intolerable, Living is a Revolutionary Act.

      I don’t agree. being totally alienated and suffering for more decades doesn’t change anything or contribute to a revolution. existing in our misery is just misery, it doesn’t go anywhere and our ends aren’t even served by adventurism.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        I’m not talking about adventurism, I’m talking about survival in place.

        Even if you stay still, in a room, posting, the system still needs to use a small amount of resources to oppress you.

        Those resources are not being used on others. A thousand people who simply refuse to die can screen the acts of a dozen professional revolutionaries, and strain the system even more.

        I get that its miserable, and may never end, and I do everything I can to make people’s lives better, but ultimately its not about us, it’s about “The Cause”. And we have a duty to humanity to do what we can, even if that’s just exist.

        • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          Even if you stay still, in a room, posting, the system still needs to use a small amount of resources to oppress you.

          Those resources are not being used on others. A thousand people who simply refuse to die can screen the acts of a dozen professional revolutionaries, and strain the system even more.

          lol wut? i’m pretty sure the only resources I’m draining are the food I eat and the electricity I use. the system would be more inconvenienced if my family put me on the street