Comment on I feel like it was on purpose
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Suddenly
As if this hasn’t been going on for decades.
My solution is to do the very minimum I can to get by and otherwise enjoy my minimalist life. Fuck consumerism with a 10ft pole. Let it rot.
Yeah, after being taken advantage of by every employer I ever had and still struggling financially I started to realize it’s beneficial for my mental health to fuck off as much as I can without getting fired. Just ride that fine line. If they treat you like they want subpar work, give them subpar work.
And yeah, stay minimalist. Don’t burden yourself with subscriptions. Don’t buy things that require a lot of maintenance. Don’t over-extend yourself. It’s better for your mental health.
Can’t be sad about being poor if you just stop wanting things.
This is how I started off, earning £600 a month on apprenticeship wages and having to pay rent for a bedroom in a shared house. When my wages increased I continued living as I was. Holy shit, now I can save £5-10k a year on minimum wage.
Now my new “problem” is not knowing how to spend my money. I still barely earn over minimum wage (£26k) but even though I now have a mortgage, I earn a fair bit more than enough to pay for it and all the essentials. I don’t want bullshit consumerist crap. Currently it goes into savings but I have nothing I particularly want to save for, maybe pay off the mortgage sooner and cut back on hours worked?
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I mean things were looking up and then Trump happened
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
We can’t lay all of the blame on trump.
The problem is conservatism in general. Every Republican president of the past 50 years has caused economic turmoil. When Republicans get power in the legislature, the only notable thing they work towards is tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, and gutting things that help people in order to pay for it.
Trump isn’t singularly the problem here, but he is so fucking stupid that he’s speedrunning the economic crisis. A Republican with a halfway functional brain would know to move slowly enough that the economy falls apart as they’re heading out the door, not within the first 20% of their term.
Start selling trump “I did that!” stickers of him pointing up at the eclipse. You’ll start seeing them everywhere soon. Gas pumps, grocery store shelves, car dealerships, etc.
oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Mhmm conservatism is a blight on humanity, nothing good will ever come of it. Every single time a conservative gets in power anywhere it always makes things worse. It is a fucking parasite that most be removed or else it will be the end of you. It denies progress, why do you think we constantly have to fight for basic human rights? Why do you think they want to go back to the 1950’s so badly? They hate that they can’t be openly racist, openly homophobic and openly transphobic. They want to drive everyone into having to play up to their ideals regardless of what you want.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Trump is a symptom of the US, not the cause.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Capitalism has been rotting out the interior of the industrialized world for decades. The dogged belief that Gore or Kerry or Hillary or Harris would have insulated the US (much less the rest of the world) from the same foibles and failures committed by Clinton and Obama and Biden is painfully naive. Nevermind the disastrous administrations of Trudeau and Starmer and Felipe Caldaron.
The idea that you just need a competent liberal technocrat in charge to make a country work never seems to bare out in practice. We get an earful about liberal reforms that will fix everything, but then those reforms either never arrive or get so watered down in the offering that they’re meaningless.
Trump’s revanchism is actively breaking a rotted out institutional economy. But we’ve been living in a progressively-more-gutted-out house since the end of the Reagan Admin. “The Free Market” is the root of this decay, not any one of its particularly boorish champions.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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