The boots usually come out when people get too sick of all this collapsing and try to change things
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2025
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at the rate at which we're embracing the enshitification; i expect to die on the streets well before the boots ever show up.
Yeah
2020 - the government asks us to stay home for six weeks, people riot (they really wanted haircuts I think?)
2025 - a can of corn kernals is $4, people do not riot
I hate it here
1980 - sugar price goes up once 10%, CIA "union" grinds economy to a halt
1991 and ever since - sugar price goes up 10% per year/month/week depend on how much "reforms" solidarność did (everything else too), nobody bats an eye
2013? Damn anonstradamus
Wait, y’all had the concept of job security?
-Millenials
This is defeatist bullshit, sorry. I'm actively building my future with my future husband by renovating a 130 year old home, and traveling the country doing industrial control wiring work. We have a dog and a roommate and friends and family we see frequently. We both love music, art, food, cooking, traveling, living in the city and seeing bands, friends, getting drinks and dinner and being social. I will walk my dog far up and down the river and to different parks and trails. I exercise and my mental and physical health is miles better than it was when I was a depressed 22 year old ten years ago.
Don't get me wrong, sometimes life fucking sucks. I've lived it. I still have to push myself really hard to achieve the goals I want and sometimes that involves working 14 hours in a pickle line getting sprayed with hot itchy shit at a steel mill in bumfuck nowhere Arkansas to make money so I can come home and build us a new kitchen for example.
I understand not everyone's circumstances can permit this type of thing. But there's a whole world of possibility and opportunity that involves waking up at the ass crack of dawn every day and working with your hands.
SOUTH KOREA!!
This sounds a lot like aging, too.
Almost as if things have been getting worse for a long, long time.
A lot of these things I can already relate to.