It feels all but certain that I won’t be able to enjoy a prosperous life or get to retire. All of the wealth is going straight to the top. All of the opportunities to move up in the world are being rug-pulled. All of the federal agencies that help keep us safe and healthy are gone. The social safety net is getting flushed down the toilet. We will live in disease and squalor, and the most vulnerable of us will die.
Because I dared to not be a sociopath, I and anyone else who voted for sanity will be deemed enemies of the state and hunted down - which won’t be hard, because it would be trivial to build the most robust surveillance state in human history if it doesn’t exist already.
I myself have disabilities (which I don’t think qualify for benefits) that make it hard, but not impossible, to find a job. The problem is that I just can’t bring myself to do it because I don’t get what the fucking point is anymore. I have to work so hard to get out of this rut just for some fascist fuck to kill me or toss me into a torture facility before I can even experience life on my own.
Have you been in a similar headspace and were able to escape it? If so, what snapped you out of it?
It still gets cold outside. If you don’t work you’ll live there
I enjoy eating and air conditioning. Gotta work for it.
“toss me into a torture facility”
What? Step away from the internet for a while.
I feel you, but you need to remember that the world is generally a pretty chaotic place and predicting the future when complex systems pass tipping points and transition to new equilibria (as they are at the moment) is pretty difficult.
Invest in yourself, your ability to cope with new and unfamiliar things, and build resilience. Resilience being the ability to bounce forward when you hit rocky patches. Don’t expect to bounce back and end up where you left off, but learn to adjust to the chaos where you need to.
Develop your capabilities until you have a sense of being a competent, worthwhile and dependable person outside of the circus going on around us. Someone that isn’t quite so dependent on the big bad system we are often forced to be part of.
I work because I enjoy healthcare, food, and shelter. The system has always been rigged, so you just have to find something you enjoy (or can tolerate doing). Ideally try to think about things that make you happy and can pay you, and maybe try doing something in that field.
When I go on vacation to tropical states there are always some overly tanned boat captains that just drive drunk tourists around and get paid decently well for it. I always think about those guys when I’m having a hard day at work, “man, they sure figured it out”
I feel the same. I found a way to leave the country. Will be leaving in the new year. I have kids and I can’t have them growing up here anymore. Time to try something new.
Get a pet.
There. Now go to work or it dies.
Consider this practice for children.
Counterpoint: Don’t have children
Getting depends for which you got neither money or time is abuse.
You have fallen down a rabbit hole and lost your mind to bad ideology. What you need to do is get your mind right but it’s not a quick or easy process.
You should be worrying about getting paid first… Work is just a way to get to get paid.
100 percent agree. Always fight for pay, not for rhe company trying to pay you less.
If I don’t work I become homeless and starve to death. I do the minimum to keep my job and fuck the rest.
I have no answer for you. Really, there is no point. Hopefully enough people give up on the system that it crashes and we can start over.
If everybody gives up on the system we fought to build with protections for workers and public goods everyone can use, then starting over will just cause more death and suffering.
What protection and public good? What little we have is gone in three months tops.
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Minimum Wage, Workers Compensation, Unemployment Benefits, Fulltime Employee Benefits, Union Protections, paid sick leave, maternity leave, vacation days, the ability to sue your employer for discrimination or other wrongful termination, etc
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Roads, Hospitals, Schools, Libraries, Water supply, Fuel Reserves, Medicaid, Medicare, etc
And yeah, we’re going to lose a bunch of shit, because of assholes like you convincing everyone to “give up on it”.
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People love to romanticize accelerationism until the civil war start and they begin starving.
Just like middle aged doomsday preppers except its soviet flavored and encouraged by foreign psy-ops.
It’s not easy. What I found helpful is if you can separate work and personal life. Only work for money unless you start your own business.
Separating the two allows you not to care if the business does poorly, it allows you to not feel guilty when your boss fails or the business does poorly, or needs extra help but you have a date that night.
I was laid off in September from a company, started a new company on Monday, they announced layoffs on Tuesday, and found out Wednesday my job is safe. Suffice to say, companies don’t care about you so get in, cash out.
Life gets worse when you dont work hard.
It doesn’t always get better when you do work, but it can always get worse.
That’s simply not true. I busted my ass for years and because I was a producer, I was kept in my role.
Eventually I wised up and left. I put in the absolute minimum effort now and make way more than I have when working hard.
Work smarter, not harder. And only work hard if it’s your own company. Hard work only goes so far and will eventually burn you out.
Hard work is what daddy tells slaves to do so he can get a lambo next year lol
Right but imagine you didn’t work at all in those times. Can you imagine you would be living well currently?
Bootlicker spotted.
Get paid, everything else is secondary lol
Log out of social media, go outside, interact with real people. Life is not remotely as bad as all that, it just seems that way because social media has told you to be scared. Humans are extremely adaptable, we will overcome whatever the problems are.
Frankly, in my experience the social media has been unreasonably optimistic
Most of the struggles and worries come from real-life expriences
This needs to be an auto comment on every post in Lemmy.
Humans are extremely adaptable, we will overcome whatever the problems are.
Many die so others get to live. I am sure the dead ones are happy for you🤡
It probably helps in one way and harms in another to say: it feels that way because it is that way.
It’s at least nice to know you’re onto something. You’re seeing what’s there. Your head is screwed on straight! Yay!
The situation still sucks, but a partial victory is a partial victory.
