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Yeah except for the tons of people who help out their parents on minimum wage jobs because family is family. And those parents "contributed nothing" (except for

by zxcmx 9y ago

Yeah except for the tons of people who help out their parents on minimum wage jobs because family is family. And those parents "contributed nothing" (except for you know, labour and care and such). It's nice when people have it together but you'll go crazy if you try to "add it up". I hope I'm lucky and consistently organised enough that my children feel entitled to believe that their success was planned for them. Working on it. They'll probably hate me for it and have some point of view where it is "stifling". Still cool, get it.

taurath 9y ago
To be clear, I'm not knocking my parents here, more pointing out how much the culture has changed
- zxcmx 9y ago
  Yeah you never win or pay off "ancestor debt", and you'll never be free of the debts you owe your children. At the end of it, being an adult looks a lot like working for everyone else all of the time and it sucks. It is what is is though and it's worse to be useless. At least that's how I get through the week.
  - gghjhbb 9y ago
    Well if you don’t like it just jump off a bridge like a reasonable person.
  - taurath 9y ago
    I have a very different perspective but I also had some advantages and a particular “character roll” of genetics and upbringing (much was not positive). One thing - nobody is required to have kids!