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In my own family I have a few cousins who have been living on debt and skating by and I think the bill is gonna come due. It's hard to feel bad for them becaus
by randycupertino 5y ago
In my own family I have a few cousins who have been living on debt and skating by and I think the bill is gonna come due. It's hard to feel bad for them because they've been spending everything they earn on jet skis and ski vacations to Montana and just kind of keeping up with the Jones of their peer group but it certainly seems kind of like 2006 before the mortgage crisis and that many people might be having to downsize their lifestyle due to economic factors.
- oneplane 5y agoThere is of course a different in 'lifestyle'/'downsizing' and not making enough money to survive working 16 hours a day. That last category might as well be some pervasive form of modern slavery, but it all ends up with people living 'on the edge' in various forms. All it takes is one big thing that happens to a lot of 'on the edge' people and the bottom of society falls out. The solution seems rather obvious: don't construct a society where a large amount of people are forced to live on the edge while at the same time pretending they are replaceable. Once replacements run out (like is happening right now), we suddenly lost something we apparently depended on as not-on-the-edge consumers.
- clevernero 5y agoI know right?? See https://www.clevernero.com/adobe-us-employees-have-until-december-8th-to-get-covid-19-vaccine https://www.clevernero.com/adobe-us-employees-have-until-dec...