• dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
    35·
    7 days ago

    I have never been more motivated by the complete absence of a social safety-net, than each day I have spent unemployed.

    As Americans, perhaps we behave this way largely to do normalization and indoctrination. And maybe some are tacitly aware of the fragility of this arrangement. But for those of us that have stared into the financial and classist chasm that sits beneath us all, it vastly exceeds any unease you might feel from not keeping up with your peers.

    • turtlesareneat@discuss.onlineEnglish
      35·
      7 days ago

      My state has stripped unemployment down to 12 weeks, after that went by after my layoff at Christmas, I got so desperate and depressed and a little bit crazy. As the day is ticked closer to my first missed mortgage payment and car payment, And the thought of homelessness for me and my animals became a sobering reality, I started taking every interview I could possibly find, no preparation, just winging it until something worked.

      During that whole process, I saw what the endgame is, we are slaves, but there is no slave master anymore, we do that part ourselves to avoid dying on the street.

      So I am very motivated to start my own niche company and get the fuck away from this whole system at this point. Especially since I will have to work until I die, 401ks have all been cashed out during crises.

    • Angelusz@lemmy.world
      13·
      7 days ago

      Yeah turns out usa didn’t reinvent the wheel super good or something. You have all been scammed under the pretense of liberty.

      Now go fix it.

  • selokichtli@lemmy.ml
    261·
    7 days ago

    6:30 am? In my city, the streets are already packed with working class people at 6:00 am.

      • redwattlebird@lemmings.world
        11·
        6 days ago

        Maybe in America, but in most other places homelessness isn’t demonised nearly as much (also America is probably the only place that will make you homeless if you get seriously ill).

        I think somewhere in the Nordic states, they’ve trialled UBI in an area and I think with success.

        Edit: So the results are a mixed bag, as you would expect, but generally people were much happier with UBI.

    • Artaca@lemdro.idEnglish
      142·
      7 days ago

      A lot of people skip the fighting traffic part of their hygiene routines and it shows smh

    • herrvogel@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 days ago

      It’s not about being forced to do all that, it’s about being forced to do all that so early in the morning in such a rush when most people would rather be sleeping. I hate mornings when I am at the office, but the WFH days are infinitely better because I get a lot more sleep and get to move at my own pace and do things at my convenience. I still have breakfast and brush my teeth, I just don’t have to do everything in 30 minutes.

  • rayyy@lemmy.world
    147·
    7 days ago

    Imagine life as a video game where you must find the way through a maze, discover keys and find treasures in order to win.
    For example, you must find a way to sustain yourself (a maze), find the key to health (power) and avoid the beasts (corporate control).
    People spend thousands of hours playing all sorts of games but neglect to properly play the game of life, instead they accept what they are offered by the power players.

    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
      33·
      7 days ago

      The difference is that in video games there are rules that you have to follow and you’re actually allowed to win.

      Real life the winners already won and wrote the rules

      • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        202·
        7 days ago

        The cheat code is unionization.

        “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

        — Buckminster Fuller

  • andybytes@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    Innovation I tell you, gawd damn innovation… Day late, dollor short. Too much and never enough. Can you smell the stench of toxic positive optimism, the self satisfaction of those that don’t think they will be left with the bag. You know the “low level winner” of inconsequential gains… One extra bowl of slop. The vain and envious… The non factual lacking in the mathematical. Oh what grand ol world. Capitalism is as natural as a ice pick rammed up my arse.

  • toastmeister@lemmy.ca
    1·
    5 days ago

    *To buy goods mass produced by a person working in far worse conditions.

    This then feeds into the CPI, which now requires higher priced goods via inflation targeting, and suddenly housing is unaffordable and theres a reverse baby boom.

  • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl
    212·
    6 days ago

    Because said person is not having to fear for his life? or worry where the next meal will come and also can have a bath, clean water, clothing, yeah, first worlders crying about living a comfortable life is cringe.

      • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl
        18·
        6 days ago

        yeah, but like, nuclear war and a dropping your icecream on the floor are bad.

        Complaining about having a job and a stable life, is kinda… xd IMO.

        • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
          32·
          6 days ago

          Hey, why cant we be bombed regularly too, huh? Won’t some country spice up my life american style? SAVE ME FROM MY BORING FIRST WORLD LIFE.

          • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl
            2·
            6 days ago

            I guess, that the most reasonable argument for voting trump i have heard yet, living in a functioning democracy is too boring and opposing oppression is funnier, for that you need a tyrant to overthrow, so you put one into power to see what happens lol. /j.

    • Test_Tickles@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 days ago

      You are correct, our privileges and opportunities have to be paid for. Things like governments, taxes, companies, and landlords have to exist. Even insurance is a great thing. The problem right now is how all of that is currently implemented in the US.
      People do fear for their lives. Get sick and your entire family can end up homeless. Cops are murdering innocent people left and right. People are working multiple jobs and still starving. They are living out of their cars, so they do not have easy access to clean water, baths, clean clothes, ECT. All while, the very government we are all paying to protect us has been taken over by people looking to use it against us.

        • Test_Tickles@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 days ago

          Even if we completely ignore the overhead involved in buying and selling property, moving is expensive, stressful and completely upends your life. Expecting new parents to move every time they need more room, or even worse, forcing grieving parents to move because no longer “need” the space is ridiculous. If we aren’t complete monsters about people only having exactly the amount of space that they need at any given moment means that there will have to be a number of people with surplus space at any given moment. And at any given moment there will also be a number of people who need a place to stay, but may not plan on staying in that one place long enough to make it worth “buying” somewhere to live. So, I don’t see how you can stop people from letting others who need a place to live from living with them. So landlords have always existed and always will.
          On the same note there’s no way to stop 2 people with similar goals from helping each other, so companies will also exist whether you want them to or not.