>After that, I think you will find that you are no longer being stomped in the face every day. Yeah, all of that is all well and good, for you. What you wrote

>After that, I think you will find that you are no longer being stomped in the face every day. Yeah, all of that is all well and good, for you. What you wrote has no effect on me as I've already made the same realizations way way back. They weren't even conscious realizations worthy of merit. I've just always lived this way. I don't care about anything in my life except my hobbies. Day job -> piano. I hang out with a couple of people a couple times a year. Currently saving for a remote cottage way out north so I can isolate myself and work on my music. That's all I want to do. And that's what I mean about the invisible boot. Just to have a modest dream like that here where I live, I need 250k minimum for the land+cottage and all things included in that. Even the tiniest dreams are straight impossible. Owning any semblance of a property that is close to the downtown core if you're not a multi millionaire? Hahahahahaha good luck. 0% of my friends will be buying property in their life times, which means they will move further and further away. The invisible boot is the stagnation of wages and the exploding cost of every day things, combined to shatter any and all dreams. There's nothing to actually live for, and I don't mean folks like me who are in the unique position of being in a highly paid job without any "life strings". But my friends? It's over, working their entire lives just to maybe afford necessities for that month.