• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    I get it.

    I’m making more money now than I ever have before, and five years ago it would have mattered, but it doesn’t now. Either the places I’d want to go to spend it no longer exist, or the price to get there or consume or experience has increased to such an extent that it feels pointless. So I plug it into an investment instead. Basic living expenses are increasingly becoming unaffordable for the vast majority. I am very lucky I bought a place three years ago, not knowing it would get this bad.

    I don’t even want that much. Just being able to go to lunch and to a movie on the weekend would do wonders for my mental health, but even that is becoming prohibitively expensive and rare to be able to do, since there are fewer movie theaters now.

    And then there’s the precarious job market, where the vast majority in the US can’t get hired for a living wage. If I were to lose my job I would honestly consider self-deletion, because it’s pretty clear that giving 2000 people enough wealth to create their own mini-societies and disconnect from the rest of the world means that most of us get to struggle permanently.

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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      Maybe that is the problem? Deleting yourself if you’d loose your job? Ever thought of just leaving this piece of shit country? I would not live there if I’d be paid to do so. Going somewhere where loosing your job is a mild inconvenience, getting sick costs you two-digit (if not privately insured) and and and and…

      It’s not like you had to learn a new language as English would get you very far already.

  • solrize@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    This site seems to be slightly polished AI slop and they don’t say what they think an existential crisis even is. Meh.

    • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Lmao, from low down on the page

      StudyFinds Analysis articles are created using an exclusive AI-based model with complete human oversight by the StudyFinds Editorial Team.

      So yah, ai generated slop articles, not even edited or optimized for SEO with, just straight up writing the articles.

  • krisevol@lemmus.org
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    2 days ago

    I think Americans are finally coming to terms with the national debt and that we owe more than we make in gdp.

    • baines@piefed.social
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      lol that’s just now

      my crisis has been at least since 2016

      some people are just oblivious as fuck