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
my mother is a liberal, who mirrors the online chuds for all LGBTQ-related issues, but she did say something very clever to me when I was growing up that still sticks with me. She made the point that the liberal freedoms, such as the right to assembly, right to "free" speech, right to protest and freedom of religion are all very nice, but outside of the West/Europe, they don't really hold much sway, since people in most other places are way more interested in the right to live in their house, and right to clean drinking water, and this was one of the reasons why people from poor countries who moved to europe would often be at odds with the governments here, since "our" governments don't care to enforce any such rights, and instead focus only on the negative rights rather than positive ones.