- Joined
- Jul 5, 2019
Feel you. I clear $80k per year but I'm hand-to-mouthing it thanks to inflation and the insane paradigm shift that happened during COVID (I live on one of the coasts, investment firms bought up 75% of the properties, refugees from the cities bought up the rest and turned them into AIRBnB when everything calmed down). There's zero housing, we have literal slumlords moving in to develop properties for pennies on the dollar and the only reason they get away with it is because they pay off the local councils.Null, I appreciate that segment you had before the super berries this week about how insanely expensive it is to live in America right now. I work in a fabrication shop bringing home about 63k~ a year. I feel like 5 years ago I couldve lived as a millionaire, now some weeks it feels like I’m barely scraping by.
I hope that things brighten up a bit for you. We all have to make it.
I tend to shit on catastrophists, particularly boomers who wax philosophically about how "these are the scariest times we've ever lived in," but the current paradigm is totally untenable. The discrepancy, the stark difference of the "haves" and the "have nots" hasnt ever seemed so stark, and on one hand I'm questioning whether it's something I never realised until I became an "adult," or if this is something totally outside the norm. Lately I lean way towards the latter.
It's monstrous, I havent had insurance, ever, as an adult. I havent seen a dentist in over fifteen years. God forbid I should have an actual health crisis, because I'd probably juat end up dying in a gutter.
And now, thanks to AI, I cant even build a computer to escape into video games with. Gee, thanks a lot.
"can you think of a place further away from trannies than Antarctica?"