An underdiscussed part of modern capitalism is how low-wage workers are often micromanaged every minute they’re on the clock, while many high-wage jobs come with hours of unstructured computer time where no one really cares what you’re doing as long as the work gets done.
It's not just housing. I am about to pay the same amount of money tomorrow for a 10-year-old car that I would have paid for a brand new car 10 years ago. How does that make any sense?
If you try to save money by cooking at home, you walk into a grocery store where three massive conglomerates own every brand on the shelf and have colluded to raise baseline prices by 40% over three years.
If you try to cut costs by renting a modest apartment, you face corporate landlords using automated algorithmic software to artificially inflate rental rates across the entire city simultaneously.
If you try to opt out of car debt by using public transit, you realize municipal budgets were slashed to protect the auto industry, leaving you with zero reliable infrastructure to get to work.
You aren't making "poor financial decisions."
Every single alternative route to survival has been intentionally bought out, consolidated, and monetized to extract maximum profit from your baseline existence.
They don't want you to build wealth; they want you permanently trapped on a treadmill where every necessary life pivot just leads back to the exact same corporate ledger.
Unpopular opinion: I believe the goal of a society SHOULD be to secure the happiness and highest quality of life possible for its citizens NOT to endlessly generate capital for the ownership class at the expense of everyone else.
People are always like “your 30s are better than your 20s because you have more money and your shit together.” Fellas it is not looking like that’s gonna be the case….
You get married in an arena & shut down half a city on a holiday weekend. You have a Zionist freak marry you. You invite abusers, MAGA’s, the fella who runs the ICE detention centre, a bunch of zios & you walk down the aisle to your own songs.
You could never make me like her!
How can we justify ending subsidies for wind and solar when the IMF reports the fossil fuel industry is still subsidized to the tune of $754 billion every single year?
A guy I went to high school with just told me his dad, who worked at the same manufacturing plant for 31 years, got a pension check last month for $2,840.
He also told me his own 401k, after 12 years of maxing out the match every single year, is worth $61,000.
Same industry same effort same state.
One generation got a guaranteed check for life. The other generation got a graph that goes down every time the market sneezes.
Nobody voted to end pensions. It just quietly happened to us while we were busy trying to survive the present.
Its funny how everyone's idea of heaven is a complete untouched paradise, crystal clear waters, lush green forests, enough food for everyone, classless, moneyless, stateless, a Utopia of peace, unity andhappiness. But here on earth it's considered a leftist ideology.
Forbes ranks Sweden as the 2nd best country in the world for business and has:
- 480 days of paid parental leave
- Universal healthcare & childcare
- Tuition-free education
- 25 days of mandatory PTO
- 70% unionization rate
But these are "socialist" and bad for business...
Voting for Trump in 2016 was ignorant.
Voting for Trump in 2020 was malicious.
Voting for Trump in 2024 was evil.
Still supporting Trump in 2026 is irredeemable.
The thing about perpetually late people is I have the ADHD/anxiety combo that makes me chronically early so if I’m 20 mins early and you’re 20 mins late my ass is sitting there for 40 minutes with fuck all to do
The White House looks like shit.. The East Wing has been bulldozed. The lawns looks like they were used for a Demolition Derby. The Kennedy Center is under a tarp. The Reflection Pond is disgusting and fenced off. Trump has turned the Capitol into a shithole.