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The economy gave you your entire existence. You’re not subsistence farming, raising your own sheep, spinning your own yarn. You’re not bartering potatoes for a
by flappyeagle 1y ago
The economy gave you your entire existence. You’re not subsistence farming, raising your own sheep, spinning your own yarn.
You’re not bartering potatoes for a dowry. Seriously man get over yourself
- fleek 1y ago[flagged]
- astrange 1y agoMany people do say they live paycheck to paycheck in surveys, this is true. But in the same surveys they say they have three months expenses in savings accounts. So it's pretty unclear what they think they mean by this.
- fleek 1y agoThey really mean "I can't save enough money to meaningfully change my lifestyle or advance my status in an amount of time I feel is reasonable." Basically they are lamenting that the American dream is dead, or a lie, and that they will always be working and never live the lifestyles portrayed by their favorite influencers. There is some truth to the idea that many people will never own as much property or live as lavishly as their parents did however.
- HDThoreaun 1y agothe history of mankind is basically nothing but suffering. We are living in without a doubt the best time to ever be alive. The economy is the reason why we arent all killing each other