Almost feels like my brain is broken or some shit.

I’m looking at the pricing of houses in my area and comparing it to my salary, and how the actual fuck is anyone affording a house these days? We’re talking almost half a million for a house that takes <2 days to build and is practically an irl copy and paste of some of the homes down the street. What the actual fuck. It seems like I’m the only one (though I know I’m not) who sees how this is completely at odds with everything I learned about the world.

Also, so salaries. How the fuck are they determined? Because it certainly isn’t the result of how much actual work you do, I’m making nearly six figures and I do jack shit yet I’m supposed to just be OK with how morally repugnant that is, as if I’m not also a piece upholding the same utterly corrupt system as well?

Fuck if I know, I try to say this shit to people irl and they just tell me that the world’s not fair blah blah blah. Yeah homie, “not fair” is quite possibly the biggest understatement ever.

I very much understand what people say when they say that money is not real. Feel free to grill my complete ignorance of Econ too if you wish, maybe it’s just something I’ll never understand

  • Hohsia [he/him]
    hexagon
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    5 months ago

    Honestly, this is one of the only places I can go to sorta check my sanity. I get that we live in an endless age of information and every “bad thing” is at your fingertips blah blah, but what about when the bad things show up at your front door.

    It’s as if people act like “the information age” isn’t literally an illustration of things happening to people living in the world.

    It’s like a bad movie where the whole town isn’t concerned about the killer until people in the city start dying. And even that isn’t an apt comparison because the killer is here and no one gives a fuck (idk might be a huge stretch but that’s where my brain went for some reason)

    • PKMKII [none/use name]
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      5 months ago

      Not to cut myself on this edge, but it feels like Donnie Darko where

      spoiler

      It turns out the preacher is a criminal predator but everyone keeps supporting him and refusing to believe the stark evidence

      It’s right up in our faces how fucked up the system is right now, but so many people willfully deny it because they’re uncomfortable with the implications in acknowledging it.

      • Hohsia [he/him]
        hexagon
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        5 months ago

        Damn you just gave me a whole new perspective

        The fucked up system is right in our face to a degree never before seen in history (arguable but hopefully you catch my drift). I don’t know if this is too hyperbolic but I feel imprisoned in a way. And if I feel imprisoned having to be babysat by my laptop, I can’t even comprehend how others feel

        And all I can do now is shout into an online void about how everything sucks and continues to get worse

    • bigboopballs [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      There's been decades of fucking around, and we're due for some weeks of finding out.