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Greed is Destroying the World - Drew Gooden (www.youtube.com)
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[–] -1 points 11 months ago* (5 children)

that's what life is. That's what all living things do. Adapt, or die.

Nobody is forcing you to invest in anything. You are more than welcome to pull all your assets out and go buy a boat and live on it. Stop blaming your personal choices on 'society'. You can live somewhere else. You can get a different job.

Lots of people live their lives without your level of privileged and do just fine. Your anxiety is your obsession with keeping up with the Jonses around you. God forbid your standard of living be slightly reduced and you have to make a cutback in your vacations.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (4 children)

    Yes, this is a valid choice. Live amongst your family and friends and everything you cherish, or become a survivalist and abandon all human connection.

    You edited to add a lot of projection to your post. I am literally complaining about rent and bills in the city I grew up in and have been living in for 35 years. I have very few extravagances and am typing to you on a 5 year old phone with a small crack along the edge of the screen. You make it sound like I should sell one of my yachts and shut the fuck up. In truth I'm about to lose my contract job at the end of next month and am unsure how quickly I can find another.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Don't even bother with that guy. He's so right, that you said things you didn't. He knows you better than you know yourself. Goal posts moving so far they need a new zip code.

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  • [–] -3 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    And if you made 3million a year you'd make the same complaint. Are you angry you have to eat food and sleep too?

    The issue is your personal offense that life requires money. You're welcome to go become Amish if you want. But I don't think you'll make that choice.

    Just like it was your choice to do contract work rather than find full time employment. I was in that situation myself once, I choose full time employment with an 'undesirable' company and it turned into a great career. People give me shit all the time about my job not being 'real' but I'll take the fat benefits and the good pay over a 'brand name' job with shitty contracting gigs. The fact you even have investments means you are in the top of the economy strata.

    Only person rescuing from your situation is yourself. The revolution isn't coming to rescue from capitalism.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    not sure why the downvotes, seriously...anyone who legitimately worries about "preserving their capital" (ie. investments) has already won the game, compared to the overwhelming majority of the world.

    most people would be lucky to buy/pay off one home by the time they die, extra lucky to save up to cover the taxes when it's time to pass it onto their kids when they die.

    many more struggle just to keep food on the table and pay their rent/utility bills.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago*

    because most lemmy people are well-off IT types whose identity is 'if i'm not a billionaire i'm struggling'. or people who just make poor financial decisions and blame billionaires for it because it's convenient and easy, and budgeting isn't.

    delusion is a hell of a drug. and people downvote anything that challenges their self-delusion that they are 'struggling' in their 200K year incomes.

    i got banned from reddit for pissing off rich people in my local city subreddit who love to make posts about how unfair their lives are. my local subreddit thinks you're 'struggling' on incomes of 250-500K a year, despite that being in the top 5% of incomes. people who think life is cruel and unfair because they can only afford a 1.5million dollar home and not the 5 million dollar home they feel entitled too. and they often go so far to argue with you their 'pain' is more legitimate that someone who struggles with food and heat and clothing payments, because they are 'more evolved and sensitive' than those people.

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