Now we’re too poor to buy stuff so we just exchange dopamine for viewing advertisements. Back in my day you had to listen to rap music and seek bad influences, if you truly wanted to be a scumbag. now it’s like the standard personality we crank out. They really closed the loop on young man becomes hedonistic capitalist worshipper. 6 years old, just touched an iPad, already doomed.

Bro I’m going through the same thing. The value of money and the rewards from society have completely skewed off a cliff. What’s the fucking point of working hard when it’s clearly a carrot on a stick with a sadist at the reigns. You can do everything right and still just fall off the ladder and end with nothing. Now we get to pay taxes to a truly regressive system that takes money from the poorest and puts it in the hands of the richest. While the value of the dollar collapses into stagnant incomes.

honestly the last job I worked was 16.33 an hour and they gave me like 10-45 hours randomly every week. $600 would be a lot at that rate. quite literally.

I was going to flex on how I had more savings and youth than you but I blinked and it was gone.

One thing you don’t understand if we collectively stopped buying shit and participating in their crooked economy, the whole system would collapse.