Being a wage-slave for 40+ years...

[Oliver]

Just the mere idea of having to work a job that you hate for 40 + years while barely being able to afford to "live" is just beyond acceptable. Like what the fuck is this shit. Why the fuck was I even born. This makes actually zero fucking sense. Sorry for the language. Just frustrated and suicidal - again...

 

[coolmcpe128]

Just the mere idea of having to work a job that you hate for 40 + years while barely being able to afford to "live" is just beyond acceptable. Like what the fuck is this shit. Why the fuck was I even born. This makes actually zero fucking sense. Sorry for the language. Just frustrated and suicidal - again...

I understand its funny how you could work hard your entire life and barely survive yet nowadays people get rich off meme coins and penny stocks (im sure 25 dollars in pepe coin 4 months ago is worth 3-4k now)

 

[parasite_eve]

Just the mere idea of having to work a job that you hate for 40 + years while barely being able to afford to "live" is just beyond acceptable. Like what the fuck is this shit. Why the fuck was I even born. This makes actually zero fucking sense. Sorry for the language. Just frustrated and suicidal - again...

No disagreement here; we are not meant to live like this with our lives over determined by our relation to capital and the whims of oligarchs. This is barbarism and we all deserve better.

We each have so much potential and so much is squandered by the imperative to make fake lines go up on charts for the enrichment of unimaginative psychopaths.

 

[crocune]

I understand its funny how you could work hard your entire life and barely survive yet nowadays people get rich off meme coins and penny stocks (im sure 25 dollars in pepe coin 4 months ago is worth 3-4k now)

Then u got ppl losing their entire life savings on hawk tuah coins or whatever else that are basically identically the same as any other coins. It's all gambling on whether it catches on and markets enough to idiots to become self sufficient till the bubble pops

 

[k1w1]

I HAVE worked for 40 years....and some; counting before and after school jobs. It is why I am here. I quit a job of 18 years a while back as I had known for years that I was going to end up a pauper sooner or later, choosing to eat.... or pay rates and electricity. While I sold all extraneous possessions and the least valuable of several antique and other collections; it is still the remainder that haunts me as I learn now where much of these came from. I'd love to stick it all in auctions to realise it's best price.....but id like it there at the end and shall will to my loved ones to do with as they see fit. Anybody else have this problem?

 

[Life'sA6itch]

I HAVE worked for 40 years....and some; counting before and after school jobs. It is why I am here. I quit a job of 18 years a while back as I had known for years that I was going to end up a pauper sooner or later, choosing to eat.... or pay rates and electricity. While I sold all extraneous possessions and the least valuable of several antique and other collections; it is still the remainder that haunts me as I learn now where much of these came from. I'd love to stick it all in auctions to realise it's best price.....but id like it there at the end and shall will to my loved ones to do with as they see fit. Anybody else have this problem?

Each of our problems are unique I guess. I knew from before I turned the age of 10 that my life would not be any good and I was right. I've basically been used and abused by my mom and a few others and am now an exhausted adult seeing no light at the end of the tunnel. I wish I had some valuables to sell. Being a wage slave dictates that at least for me I can't ever aquire any. It's this life of wage slavery atop all my traumas and injustices that will eventually usher me to my death. I just wish I could be put down like a dog.

 

[AuroraB]

i have also wage slaved about 40 years and it's NO FUN reading that my own government wants to kill the social security and medicare we have worked for our whole lives. really scary.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

I agree so much. Even just the act of merely living is so exhausting and I want no part of it. I truly have no idea how so many people are able to trudge on and fight through this life but I'm not one of those people and I don't want to be

 

[Csmith8827]

Welcome to it. It's not that bad honestly. It's better than pan-handling and being homeless in the streets. At least you're not begging for money and can afford a place to live. I plan on moving out eventually...I just got into law troubles so like...a bit of a delay. But like I really wasn't ready 100% anyway so... yeah...

It's just horrible. I got made into an alcoholic and like this man-whore on the streets....it wasn't a fun lifestyle.

So I'd rather be a wage slave and have a roof over my head than deal with that bullshit.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I've done both. Wage slaved for over a decade and pursued a career for a longer period. Still wage slavery ultimately but, at least I used to find more fulfilment from it. But yeah, I want out of the entire shit show now.

I have to agree that life can feel utterly ridiculous. Basically, a whole series of trying to dodge worser case scenarios! We're stuck being alive because hurting our loved ones feels like a bad scenario. But also, restricting methods to risky, unreliable ones means that the prospect of failing an attempt scares us into remaining here.

Those who don't have supportive families or don't qualify for welfare may also be frightened into wage slavery, or simply guilt tripped into it because, the alternative of destitution/ homelessness/ even disapproving relatives seems worse. But hell, what a low bar! Do things you detest to ensure things you may end up detesting more don't come to pass.

I have to agree with you. I really don't know what my parents were thinking conscripting me into this.

 

[Gustav Hartmann]

Social Darwinism works.

 

[Loaf of bread]

I completely agree. It seems to me that in the current dystopia, the best part of life effectively ends on the first day of school. (Vent below)

A typical life nowadays comprises of 3-7 years of relatively good life (depending on when school starts and parenting) followed by education (stressful and tedious), work [wage slavery] (even more stressful and tedious) and retirement (not stressul and tedious, but the body is too broken to enjoy).

The fact that one has to "work to live" implies one does not deserve to live by default. This economic system is insane.

Hurrah to dystopia!

If one is upset by this horrible system, they are deemed mentally ill and pumped with antidepressents. Antidepressents do nothing to address the broken system, just makes one unnaturally fine with it like brave new world.

And yet, most people are perfectly happy to live in a world like this. Even to procreate more people into this. To each their own, I suppose.

Absolute absurdity. This society is stranger than fiction.

 

[k1w1]

i have also wage slaved about 40 years and it's NO FUN reading that my own government wants to kill the social security and medicare we have worked for our whole lives. really scary.

Australian?

 

[tiredash]

If at least we knew that things were gonna get better... But we dont even have that, we have the opposite, we know that things will get economically worse for pretty much everyone that is middle class or low or poor...

 

[pixi]

and to add insult to injury, you *might* have the chance to retire finally once you're too old to do a good majority of the things that are actually enjoyable. what a great system!

 

[AuroraB]

I completely agree. It seems to me that in the current dystopia, the best part of life effectively ends on the first day of school. (Vent below)

A typical life nowadays comprises of 3-7 years of relatively good life (depending on when school starts and parenting) followed by education (stressful and tedious), work [wage slavery] (even more stressful and tedious) and retirement (not stressul and tedious, but the body is too broken to enjoy).

The fact that one has to "work to live" implies one does not deserve to live by default. This economic system is insane.

Hurrah to dystopia!

If one is upset by this horrible system, they are deemed mentally ill and pumped with antidepressents. Antidepressents do nothing to address the broken system, just makes one unnaturally fine with it like brave new world.

And yet, most people are perfectly happy to live in a world like this. Even to procreate more people into this. To each their own, I suppose.

Absolute absurdity. This society is stranger than fiction.

retirement is only decent if one saved 20+ years of generous living allowance or have pensions and investment income. those who didn't and are too old to be employed truly suffer month to month with getting by. i have so many friends who are now 65-70 and wonder every single month how they are going to pay rent in this economy where nobody wants to hire them.

 

[Life'sA6itch]

I completely agree. It seems to me that in the current dystopia, the best part of life effectively ends on the first day of school. (Vent below)

A typical life nowadays comprises of 3-7 years of relatively good life (depending on when school starts and parenting) followed by education (stressful and tedious), work [wage slavery] (even more stressful and tedious) and retirement (not stressul and tedious, but the body is too broken to enjoy).

The fact that one has to "work to live" implies one does not deserve to live by default. This economic system is insane.

Hurrah to dystopia!

If one is upset by this horrible system, they are deemed mentally ill and pumped with antidepressents. Antidepressents do nothing to address the broken system, just makes one unnaturally fine with it like brave new world.

And yet, most people are perfectly happy to live in a world like this. Even to procreate more people into this. To each their own, I suppose.

Absolute absurdity. This society is stranger than fiction.

You are spot on

 

[fallingtopieces]

Social Darwinism works.

Nonsense, people hoarding wealth, the exploitation of labor, an immoral economic system setup to benefit the few. None of this is social darwinism, which itself is garbage pushed by racists and nazis. Since the global financial crisis (thanks to deregulation and purposeful lack of oversight), the wealthy went on to become wealthier, everyone else was left behind. There was nothing "natural" about this.

 

[JesiBel]

That's exactly what I think. Why fight and try hard to stay in a world that I really don't want to be a part of.

In the end, when they can no longer exploit us, they will discard us like an old artifact. The pensions and health systems for retirees are pitiful.

Sick world. The system only promotes human misery, and every year that passes is worse for the next generations. Powerful people will always have "their foot on the head of the common/working people."

There will always be slaves available, so the system will never collapse.

 

[AuroraB]

Australian?

nope. citizen of USA.

 

[theolivanderroach]

I was a wage slave for 7 years and gave up and will ctb soon. Idk how people do it for several decades.

 

[Gustav Hartmann]

Nonsense, people hoarding wealth, the exploitation of labor, an immoral economic system setup to benefit the few. None of this is social darwinism, which itself is garbage pushed by racists and nazis. Since the global financial crisis (thanks to deregulation and purposeful lack of oversight), the wealthy went on to become wealthier, everyone else was left behind. There was nothing "natural" about this.

Everything that happenes is natural, what else should be the cause? Something supernatural? The guiding hand of god?

That's exactly what I think. Why fight and try hard to stay in a world that I really don't want to be a part of.

In the end, when they can no longer exploit us, they will discard us like an old artifact. The pensions and health systems for retirees are pitiful.

Sick world. The system only promotes human misery, and every year that passes is worse for the next generations. Powerful people will always have "their foot on the head of the common/working people."

There will always be slaves available, so the system will never collapse.

More and more work is done by machines and computers, less and less slaves are needed. Economic growths is limited when you life on a sphere, the system will collapse. I my country you don´t have to work, you can live comfortable from the welfare state.

 

[sanction]

Just the mere idea of having to work a job that you hate for 40 + years while barely being able to afford to "live" is just beyond acceptable. Like what the fuck is this shit. Why the fuck was I even born. This makes actually zero fucking sense. Sorry for the language. Just frustrated and suicidal - again...

You are 1 million percent correct

This is why life is complete bullshit. Add in all the other shit as well (health issues, etc.) this world is a total DUMP

Go through all this shit and stress just to rot and die in the end. It simply doesn't get anymore pointless than this lol