I have no personal debt, and this is entirely because I have not purchased a single luxury item my entire life. I am anhedonic and have not left my apartment ever and the only luxury I enjoy is tap water. You are all irresponsible layabouts.
I know you're joking but still. Our standard of living has dropped so far from our parents and especially boomers.
ive never had a credit card and i truly dread the day im going to need one. credit score stuff is truly vile. cant wait to be declined because i havent paid off debt that ive never had
American propaganda is the highest quality the world has ever seen, and ever will see.
at least we don't brainwash our children like China and the Soviets!!!!
will ever see
I like your optimism but I don’t share it
“I won the lottery to be born as a white male in America, might as well take advantage of it”
This one is truly so pernicious. It both downplays their own oppression and while still recognising and accepting that we basically live in a caste system
I'm in $160k worth of debt before you add on my wife's $30k student loan. 109k is what's left of my house and I've actually managed to get a decent amount of equity in it but if I lost my job tomorrow I'd be broke in a couple months. I'm a union auto worker and after 8 years I've finally hit top pay rate and by all accounts I'm doing pretty good. I'm the only earner for my family of four and we live pretty comfortably and I still hate capitalism. I've worked lots of overtime and put my body through hell over the last 8 years to provide my family with a decent life and right now I'm just terrified of losing it all because of the stupid ass economical system we live in. I'm not saying "woe is me" because I know the vast majority have it way harder than I do. I'm just saying even when you "succeed" in the world of capitalism it still feels like you could have your whole life stripped away at any moment due to dumbasses who will be fine no matter what happens.
Also the success that you describe has nothing to do with capitalism, but rather the small pocket of "socialism" that is unionization. If capitalism had its way your wife and kids would need to work too for your family to eek out an existence.
Solid point. If it weren't for the union I'd be lucky to make half of what I do now and my health insurance would be 10 times more expensive than it is now
There's also "it might be bad here, but it's worse in those socialist countries, look at this article from state department media!"
Honestly the sanctions are bad and all, but I feel like if you want to get people on your side with venezuela you can just start with the fact that the UK straight up stole their gold reserve. Like to explain how the sanctions are essentially a type of warfare you have to get technical, but everoyne udnerstands "Britain straight up stole their fucking money"
Honestly it's a combo of state derived indoctrination (gotta get into that grind, worker bee mode, go to college, etc work till death), cultural stagnation as everything is commodified, as well as leftover boomer era economic zeitgeist floating around
because your friends are just waiting until it's their turn to be billionaires. any day now.
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They are still materially comfortable
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Indoctrination from the cradle
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Beyond basic reform policies leftist ideals don't have much to offer most americans
Seriously, these people don’t want to lose their material bullshit because that’s a sign of them being above others. $600k McMansion, $100k in car loans, $80k in credit card debt and other bullshit is what makes these people think they are superior to anyone else. Except it’s going to take one bad number to go down in the stonk market for these people to end up with nothing. I can tell you that this lady is 90% in this situation. I know this because I used to live in this area.
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Because they might be trapped in an endless cycle of misery, but they’ll take that over an ideology which the media tells them killed 100 bajillion
"who's fault is that debt though"
I will never understand how anyone thinks bootstraps can pull anything up.
Privileged people are never gonna willingly give up their privileges.
