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

  • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml
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    10 months ago

    You could always use your ample downtime to commit time "theft" if you work at home and aren't subjected to dystopian af surveillance by your employer.

    • Hohsia [he/him]
      hexagon
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      10 months ago

      That’s what I’m doing right now 😌

      But it is extremely dumb because I sorta have to be by on my computer on standby, otherwise I’d be out doing shit that actually helps people

      Remote work is both a blessing and a curse

      • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
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        10 months ago

        Remote work is both a blessing and a curse

        yah its a fuck. I try and get out do stuff anyhow. connectivity with laptops and smartphones is such that you kinda can just go as long as you can interrupt it with work at any time, and you get any relevant work notifications on your phone.