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>as China's "lying flat" movement No, you miss that "lying flat" is only possible when cost of food/living is low and housing is abundant.
by krackers 4mo ago
>as China's "lying flat" movement
No, you miss that "lying flat" is only possible when cost of food/living is low and housing is abundant.
- t-3 4mo agoOur lying flat is opiods. Generating dark money and killing off the useless, isn't late-stage capitalist empire great?
- khuey 4mo agoOpioid overdose in America kills the uneducated, not the college graduates who failed to launch. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10559184/#aoi230067f1 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10559184/#aoi230067...
- t-3 4mo agoLying flat isn't done only by college graduates, it's a broad youth movement. Uneducated people aren't happy to work soul-destroying jobs with long hours for little pay any more than college graduates, and have less hope for escaping that situation.
- AnimalMuppet 4mo agoEven then, it's only possible when someone is willing to subsidize it, unless both food and housing are free.
- majormajor 4mo agoI believe the closest US equivalent is to get on disability to subsidize those costs. (Especially effective in cheaper areas.)
- oivey 4mo agoGetting on disability is insanely difficult and pays jack shit. That is not a US equivalent by any measure.