Opinion Is Adulthood a Scam?

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Is Adulthood a Scam?

It has been just a few years into my adulthood and I’m already regretting growing up!
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Don’t get me wrong, being able to take decisions on my own, having my day going by without been yelled at or/and earning my own paycheck all feel great.
But sometimes I can’t help it but wonder why being an adult is so hard.
There are a lot of things things that I could do when I was young that I can no longer do just because I am now an adult.
Remember the times we used to play outside as kids, playing games with friends, eating and sleeping, without knowing the harsh and dangers of the world?
Nothing is as loyal as before, back in the day all I had to worry about was managing my little allowance but now my paycheck disappears into an ocean of expenses before I even receive it!
Maybe it's my understanding of what being an adult that needs to change. Does being a grown-up mean I have to be mean about life too? Does it entail being serious all the time, managing family matters, having kids etc?

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Being an adult should not be such a hustle
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain
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what we believe we know is often wrong, and as we learn we start to realize how ignorant we really are. There should be more to life than just following the crowd and focusing on running along the rails of this rat race called life.
Our memories of childhood and adolescence, fond or not contain the experiences that we can draw on to maximise on the pleasures and benefits of our current lives.
One of the things that I enjoyed when I was in my youth was the opportunities I got to learn new things. As times moved on and life started happening, I fell into the ‘’everyday routine’ trap. Soon I started following the grown-up blueprints of how things are done and I forgot to learn.
The world can be so black and white that anyone who dares to dream in colour is viewed as if they are infected by leprosy
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The process of learning does not have to end with the dawn of adulthood as everything we go through brings lessons, sour or sweet that we have to embrace and apply.
Adulting means taking responsibility
In life, there are 3 things to avoid, debt, ill health, and bad neighbours! — A proverb I learnt in adulthood.
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Yes, being an adult can indeed be scary. Being an adult means making peace with the fact that every decision you make have consequences. It means living with the burdens brought about by your bad choices as well as those shots you fail to take along the way.
I missed a lot of opportunities that could have made my life easier now. But all of those experiences and regrets taught me an important lesson: My biggest failure in life is when I stop trying/striving.
When we choose to live in the shadows of yesterday, we forfeit the right to determine what our tomorrow is going to look like.
The only thing that is constant in this life we live is change — we do not have any choice but to follow it. The world will never to revolve and we have to adapt to its tune depending on the situation or die! One of such changes is the leap from childhood to adulthood. When we resist this change we cease to grow.
When we choose to live in the shadows of yesterday, we forfeit the right to determine what our tomorrow is going to look like. That is sad!
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Adulthood is not a scam
Yes, life happens to the best of us. Expenses pile up, bills need to be paid, debts are incurred, and Ceasar needs his dues every now and then. It gets to be hectic and painful to face but this is just the beginning of life.
Adulthood is not a scam. The societal convulsions that swallow most of us and the things that we mindlessly pursue the most definitely are. The time is now for us to rediscover the joys of our childhood and embrace them in our adulthood. The rat race is just that, the rat race.
I wish you guys good luck in your future and may adulthood bring good health to everyone.
Asante Sana
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The sheer infantilization of society...

Just motivate people to act like fucking children through entire adulthood, turn them into dependable cowards with the state as their parents. There, you have a people that are both loyal to the government for their own selfish needs, willing to defend it from fellow citizens but ready to surrender when their leaders surrender the country willingly to their enemies. Oh and they are very easy to dispose of when their usefulness runs out.

Edit: oh yes, I almost forgot, also motivating them to not have children. Why you think they demonize the concept of having children as the worst thing that can happen to you? Just keep playing vidya instead of growing up and assuming adult responsibilities so you will not feel motivated in defending your country and fellow men since you got no fucking stake and future to preserve.
 
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Adulting means taking responsibility
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The sad part is, we have entire generations of people who need to hear this.
 
People used to live without:
Internet
Electricity
Plumbing
Grocery stores
Disinfectants
Gloves
Plastic in general
Modern home insulation
Steel
Concrete
Internal Combustion Engines
Printing Presses
Telecommunications systems
Vaccines (actual)
Antibiotics
Sterile surgery
Painkillers
Public school systems
Worker's rights
Equal rights for gays/nonwhites/women
Local police

And a whole slew of other convenient shit. So shut the fuck up and enjoy the twenty-first century, for as shit as it looks like it's going to be it's a hell of a lot better than living used to be for the vast majority of human history you ungrateful, developmentally-arrested asshole.
 
Yes. Adulthood is a scam, and if you think like this, there’s always the beloved “an hero” method to ensure that you cannot be taken further advantage of
 
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The sad part is, we have entire generations of people who need to hear this.
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The mistake is thinking they haven't heard it. It's merely they intend to reject the notion for as long as they can throughout their entire life. Most of the time these are the same people constantly harping about how everyone is irresponsible and then turn around and act in that exact manner they griped about.
 
Remember the times we used to play outside as kids, playing games with friends, eating and sleeping, without knowing the harsh and dangers of the world?
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Funny how these will be the same people who are convinced we need to teach kids CRT, how climate change will ruin their future, how they are guilty for their sins of their parents and other nonsense.
 
Ok guys I don't know if American schools do this, but I recall a nightmare called homework.
That I had to do, for free, in my spare time, after school.

Fuck that shit. Work is way better. You not only get paid, but you don't have to do it at home.

Sure bills eat into it, but homework makes up for summer breaks. And you can drink party likker too.

You end up with more money and the same amount of free time. Of course the hikineet life is best but we can't all be Kazuma.
 
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To exist requires you to work. Even if you weren't working a wage job and were the last man on Earth, you would have to farm your food to eat. It's not a function of capitalism, it's a function of scarcity. We don't live in the garden of eden and we never will, and even in the garden of eden you would not have unlimited resources, as time is a finite resource and you can only truly devote yourself to one pursuit at any given moment so you would be economizing your time any time you made a decision to do something over another thing. There's not enough of x to go around for everyone that wants x at any given moment. You can either make x yourself or you can provide value to someone that has x in exchange for x. This "abolish work" horse shit is the apex of first world magical thinking. The world is a nice place to live, in the spots that it is actually a nice place to live, because people WORKED to make it that way.
 
To be fair, it sucks how American culture can seem to expect people to "put away childish things" to such a degree that "mature adults" can't really have fun anymore - as if the only fun they can have is being overly stoic, reading books with no pictures, quietly sitting in a chair, and smoking a pipe? And only liking food that's an "acquired taste" or bland?

Life as an adult can also seem like a boring affair of endless work.

On the other hand, the modern world seems to coddle too much, to the point where marriage can't really be a thing until 20s or 30s.

And there definitely seems to be a push by the powers that shouldn't be to keep people overly dependent.
 
Nope, being an adult means people don't talk down to and patronise you, plus you're not forced to slave away at the behest of powertripping teachers without financial compensation.
Being a child is terrible.
 
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Ok guys I don't know if American schools do this, but I recall a nightmare called homework.
That I had to do, for free, in my spare time, after school.

Fuck that shit. Work is way better. You not only get paid, but you don't have to do it at home.

Sure bills eat into it, but homework makes up for summer breaks. And you can drink party likker too.

You end up with more money and the same amount of free time. Of course the hikineet life is best but we can't all be Kazuma.
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Not to mention that if you don't like your co-workers, boss, or what you do for work you can always quit your job and find another place to work. You don’t have to deal with the same horrible teachers and classmates as an adult day after day.
 
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To exist requires you to work. Even if you weren't working a wage job and were the last man on Earth, you would have to farm your food to eat. It's not a function of capitalism, it's a function of scarcity. We don't live in the garden of eden and we never will, and even in the garden of eden you would not have unlimited resources, as time is a finite resource and you can only truly devote yourself to one pursuit at any given moment so you would be economizing your time any time you made a decision to do something over another thing. There's not enough of x to go around for everyone that wants x at any given moment. You can either make x yourself or you can provide value to someone that has x in exchange for x. This "abolish work" horse shit is the apex of first world magical thinking. The world is a nice place to live, in the spots that it is actually a nice place to live, because people WORKED to make it that way.
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Some NEET gaming the system is as valid way to work as any. The most intelligent way to work is by doing the least you can. There will always be enough fools eagerly willing to submit to the authority to maintain global social democracy.
 
Being an adult doesn't mean you stop wanting to do silly or irresponsible things, it just means you probably realize why you shouldn't do those things.

There's no shame in having a brain with enough reasoning ability to weigh the pros and cons of an action, then deciding against the "fun" thing.
 
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