Everything used to not feel as shitty. Like... healthcare, for starters. But it's also a huge one. You go to the dentist, and it used to be $20 co-pay. And th

Everything used to not feel as shitty. Like... healthcare, for starters. But it's also a huge one. You go to the dentist, and it used to be $20 co-pay. And that was that. Now it's like a $50 co-pay... AND they send you a bill after the visit for gauze or something random that the insurance didn't cover. And the point is you have no idea if it's going to be $35 or $900. And even if you have the money it's all the time you have to spend figuring out how to pay the damn bill (like some random online payment system), and stress knowing a bill is never what you can predict. It takes energy to worry about this shit. And by the time you're done stressing, the last thing you want to do is go back and work a weekend for an employer who's just going to find a way to make your insurance suck more the next year, all while blaming insurance companies for raising rates. And it's shitty fucking mortgage companies that sell your loan every 6 months to a different shitty fucking mortgage company. And make you switch payment systems. And it's just like, "Man, I thought auto-pay meant I didn't have to stress about this shit or ever check my mail or read messages from companies I didn't recognize..." But any more, that's how you get late fees. And it's all the fucking upsells on things. Nothing feels good by default. And finding anything that feels like a good deal is impossible. All the fucking "optimizations" companies have made over the years all just make life miserable. More shit to stress about... I can't just hop on a plane, if I forget to upgrade to the right plan (which varies by airline), or change flights mid-trip, I then it's another bill for bags, or meals, or so my knees don't get crushed by the seat in front of me. Meh, all this just ends up sounding like some cranky old person complaining shit used to be better. The perpetual state of American decline. "Get off my lawn!" But like... bottom line, as a Gen-X-er I want to work, and do my best, and I get annoyed when people don't buy in to the shit I've been sold. But I also get why a lot of people younger than me are over this shit. Life just feels way too unpleasant with all the BS, nobody has your back. Why would anyone want to work harder than they have to in the system we've built?