Stop posting silly memes and get back to work, plebe!
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
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a great summary of "wage of labor and capital"
You want to follow your not-money-generating dreams? Become a philosopher? Travel the world? Just enjoying your life? Well, you better be rich or you can forget about it.
The rich didn't just steal everything they can from us, they made sure that we suffer if we don't work for them.
Yes. Work or die. It’s violence.
Just think about it: the rich made the one way people had to generate generational wealth too expensive to acquire - the family home.
I was lucky enough to get the money for a house, but I don't see the next generation being able to afford that.
Work your whole life, suffer in poverty when you get to old to work, leave nothing but dept to the next generation.
That will be the new norm now.
I grew up under subsistence minimum. We grew our own food, and even then we often didn't have enough. Honestly, without free school lunches things would've likely looked way different. Growing up keenly aware of that sort of financial distress is fucking terrible, and I don't wish it on anyone.
I'm alright now, decently well paid, and I do, but it's still obvious how the money grubbing elite is trying to chip away at the rest of us bit by bit and it makes me so furious. There's no way in hell I'll ever own a home myself.
Family? Not in a million years. No child deserves to live in the world we've built. It's unethical.
There is a third option
And yet ...
You forgot the homeless part
Yes but at least we have videogames and porn
Sometimes I think that my life isn't much different than being a medieval peon slaving away for their liege but then I remember they didn't have goon caves. Poor bastards.
Life is sad. Humans really saw oceans and mountains and thought we should build more.
Mountains can't run Mario
It can probably run Doom if you're dedicated enough
Mountains are made of rocks. Steal the rocks, trick them into thinking, port Doom onto it. Boom, done.
I'm not capable of providing value to anyone. Not my kids, not my soon-to-be ex wife, not my employer. I'm nothing but a drain on everyone in my life and when I die, I will do it penniless and alone.
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You are not your productivity. Also, you are not a dad that ran away from their children. You maybe could be better, but you definitely could be worse.