You do not earn a billion dollars. You steal it. Nobody works a billion times harder than a nurse, a teacher, or a farmer. That wealth comes from underpaying the people who actually did the work. Stop praising hoarders who are just really good at wage theft.
Unpopular Opinion:
If a job is important enough to exist, it should pay enough for the person doing it to live with dignity.
That means being able to afford rent, groceries, transportation, utilities, and basic healthcare... without needing a second job, three roommates, or constant financial anxiety.
And yes, there should be enough left over for a coffee, a movie, a hobby, or a night out once in a while.
A paycheck should do more than keep you alive.
It should allow you to have a life.
God has a way of bringing you through the worst days of your life and turning them into a testimony. People see the joy now, but they have no idea how much strength it took to get here.
Boomers are basically living in a completely different country from you
Free healthcare paid for by you, fat retirement account juiced up by private equity that is parasiting off of your labor, fat net worth due to insane housing costs paid by you, free money every month from social security paid for by you.
My father constantly lectures me on how I should move away from NYC to somewhere cheaper "like Alabama" whenever I complain about housing costs. I reply "I need to be here because the jobs are here, and I have friends and family here", he says why not work remote and move to Alabama? Ok dad let me just find a good paying remote job and move to Alabama so I can keep my head above water. Let me just nuke my social life and any future networking opportunities or potential so that I can afford housing.
An entire generation of people who have their fingers in their ears even when their own children are suffering. Mind you, my father can easily help if he wants to, he owns multiple apartments but wants me to "earn it" like he "earned it".
Something I've learned the hard way: All relationships can survive mistakes, but they can't survive patterns. Repeated behavior isn't a mistake, it's a decision. Apologies lose meaning when the actions never change.
My frontal lobe fully developed, and I realized that working a 9 to 5 job five days a week until I am 60 just so I can “enjoy” a few years when I am close to death is the worst idea I have ever seriously considered.
NO, you CANNOT walk 10,000 steps daily, get 8 hours of sleep, cook every night, clean every day, take care of a family, make time for your own hobbies, and still be productive at work every day. This is not just propaganda, it is rubbısh. Free yourself from it.
You can literally feel it in your soul when it’s time, time to stop settling, time to outgrow certain people, time to break habits that keep draining you, time to choose yourself in ways you never did before. There comes a moment when your spirit gets tired of surviving and starts craving elevation. You start wanting peace more than chaos, growth more than comfort, and purpose more than excuses.
Stop dealing with people who don't have people in their life to tell them THEY WRONG... these type of people lack accountability, they will do something wrong to you & still feel like they right & they find a bunch of yes folks to hop on the bandwagon & gaslight them..
The U.S. economy basically works like this:
Get paid $5,200.
Pay $2,200 in rent.
$650 for groceries.
$550 for your car payment, insurance, and gas.
$450 for health insurance and medical bills.
$350 for utilities and internet.
Stretch whatever’s left until the next paycheck.
Then get a lecture from someone who bought their house for $95,000 in the early ’90s about how skipping lattes and Netflix is the key to building wealth.