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PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 4 weeks agoIt sucks that I spent my whole life following the rules. Saving my money. Making low risk investments to provide for my family and our future.
And it’s all being stolen now.
My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Steal what people have to lose and they’ll start acting like they’ve nothing left to lose…
The sheer unfairness of it stings and festers, I agree and feel the same as you. There’s some solace in knowing there was never really anything I could have done differently, except perhaps lived a little more decadently, although I’m not sure that would have made me much happier at the time and probably would have made me even more poorly prepared, mentally, for the austerity to come.
My parents were strategic geniuses for having this book in the house when I was a kid. I believe it helped my slow lifetime acceptance of the ‘life is no fair’ fact. Image