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I'm married with family. It is something else: You need to turn yourself into a corporate-or-other slave to pay off the mortgage, cars, save for kids' schools,
by byEngineer 12y ago
I'm married with family. It is something else: You need to turn yourself into a corporate-or-other slave to pay off the mortgage, cars, save for kids' schools, etc.
Absolutely no wonder that in "poor" countries they are happier. Living in constant stress about the job, with huge financial obligation, not even seeing your kids and spouse except for weekends and a week vacation a year -- compare this to my parents generation in communistic (then) Poland -- no debt, guaranteed jobs, free housing. Economically speaking yes this doesn't make sense. Psychologically - why they are looking (in the article above) in all the wrong places for explanations when it is so obvious.
- dominotw 12y ago>Absolutely no wonder that in "poor" countries they are happier. what?
- byEngineer 12y agoread the article
- sliverstorm 12y agocompare this to my parents generation in communistic (then) Poland -- no debt, guaranteed jobs, free housing. Do your parents tell you how much they miss that? My parents aren't from Soviet-era Poland, but I've never heard a citizen of the Soviet Bloc wax nostalgic about their time there.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> Do your parents tell you how much they miss that? My parents aren't from Soviet-era Poland, but I've never heard a citizen of the Soviet Bloc wax nostalgic about their time there. I've heard of (but not heard myself) lots of people in post-Soviet Russia doing so, and its been frequently cited as the basis for support for many of the most powerful politicians in Russia since shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union.
- dawkins 12y agoI have. It surprised me a lot. Maybe it is because we tend to remember the good parts.
- roel_v 12y agoYeah, that's why people are flocking to communist countries, to the point where the commies have to build walls to keep people from coming in. Oh wait no, it seems those wall are to keep people in, you know, just so they don't accidentally wander off out of utopia.
- cryoshon 12y agoYeah, the whole "selling the vast majority of your life's time to something that doesn't matter" rings hollow very quickly. The worst part is that some people don't see that there's any other way.