We’re watching a slow motion collapse
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Truth right here. I’ve felt like I’ve been missing something my whole life. There is supposed to be more to this than grinding through the motions.
Same. I was praying today and asked God what do I really want? Everyday I pray for my family and loved ones and good health, peace in this world, pray for Q, white hats, POTUS, pray for peace and justice..but what do I really want? I couldn’t answer it because in the end there’s nothing that I want. Head scratcher right? Everything I want is temporary, materialistic, and superficial, but that thing I want that can’t be snatched away, something of real substance, what is it? I feel like I’m stuck in this matrix..and then I started thinking deeper. There must be more.. I want the truth. Whether it be about our history, our earth, origins, what is really going on, our existence, our DNA, what is earth if it’s a planet or realm or what? . I want all those revealed to me. And maybe this is why they want to enslave everyone so we keep our heads down and not think of those real questions. Q said Ascension. Maybe it's the ascension of the mind, when we go to the next level our reality will change, like a reset what that guy said.
So help me, I couldn’t have put into words what you just said better. On. The. Money. I pray for the same things. Always for my family, friends, other animals, my GAW frens, my animals, this country and world, the Q group and the white hats. I’ve always felt as though I have a purpose- something more than gaining material things. I still haven’t come close to finding what it is that I seek. I hope that I get to find out what it is in my lifetime.
Source: https://nitter.poast.org/StealthQE4/status/1957941141921218804#m
You're playing a game you can't win.
Ok but what's the alternative? When America was great (where we're trying to go back to again), there was still at least one person per household grinding away for 40+ hours a week to provide. People worked at the same place for many years, instead of job hopping, people still only had one vacation a year, maybe that and a big Christmas too.
Do people really think there was a better work/life balance in years past than now? Or have we just romanticized the past because it was a simpler time? I mean, are we inadvertently asking for UBI here? Is working 4 10s really better for one extra day, when you maybe get home after dark?
When my wife's relatives used to visit from Italy they would be off for 4 weeks (one month) for their vacation from working. I used to think that was interesting. Where most Americans usually take one to 2 weeks. I never asked them how long their workday was, but I was thinking it was 8 or 9 hours daily. Truthfully I don't know.
I've always worked and supported myself and my daughter, never got child support got food stamps a couple times when I lost a job, but never stayed on it for more than a couple months. Now she's grown and we share a house and the bills, we both work hard and share the responsibilities of taking care of my granddaughter, we also make sure she spends time with her dad who lives an hour away. We both have good credit and I'm financially stable, but not enough to retired. Grocery prices keep going up and up, so much so that for us it pays to buy gas to drive an hour out of town to go to the nearest Walmart instead of shopping locally, and prices have even increased there. We can tough it out, I've cut back on extra things, but when are we going to start seeing prices lower. Gas here has gone down by about 50cents a gallon but they still hover around three dollars.
Yeah inflation may have stopped increasing but prices haven't been decreasing. I'm not dooming or anything just stating the reality of it all. We are holding on for things to trickle down and get better, but it's rough sometimes.
UBI is not the answer, reduced work hours are. Essentially, slowing down… technology was supposed to make our lives easier but all it did was make us have to match its speed. Now people are doing 4x the work they used to for the same pay. All because of greed, people wanting to profit as much as they can as fast as they can. Everyone has nervous system dysregulation, everyone is overstimulated, the world is WAY too fast in America. We don’t need Amazon prime. We don’t need to rush everywhere and go fast and produce at the speed we are. Work weeks should be 30 hours or less, to start with. There’s so many more areas to tackle the issue before something like UBI but I’m guessing you know that that’s “their” plan for us; make us “anti-capitalist” so that we will ASK for their pre-approved and programmed “solution” 🤮
Reduced work hours for the same or more pay? Sounds like what lefties want.
This isn't the whole story.
How many of us were foolish and then had to face the consequences of that? I see 22 year olds every day go out and buy a $90,000 pimped out truck because they see their 50 or 60 years old coworkers riding in one. They, like we did when we were kids, took what we saw as how it should be. Daddy has a garage full of tools and mommy has a full kitchen. They are financially secure so they can splurge on a vacation or tricked out ride.
The 12 to 18 year old didn't see the frugality that lead to that. They just decided that they needed to live that same life immediately - and no one stopped us, and no one is stopping their children.
But then they lose their first job and the truck gets repo'd and they have to move into a roach motel and eek out a meager living for a couple years and save. No one scrimps and saves for the future.
That's future you's problem.
We are all one emergency away because we spend everything from the moment we are born. It's not all our fault, but you can't just go "society!" You need to pull yourself up, get ahead, stock pile for the rainy days, and then relax and breathe. That's why you side hustle. That's why you buy a $500 1998 Ford Ranger with 500,000 miles and feed it a quart of oil every weekend with your paycheck while learning to repair it slowly over your 20s. Because ultimately, it's cheaper than buying a pimped out cruise mobile, random huge repairs included.
Yup. I'm only 38, and over the years I've seen the people all around me ignore all the old maxims, like wanting to live downtown "close to the action", or because they want to avoid a long commute despite it being more expensive.
The mindset of instant gratification and entertainment at all times needs to change.
This is only half the picture though. You can’t argue that wages haven’t stagnated since the 70s. To be equivalent for the purchasing power back then, minimum wage needs to be $60-something dollars now. And that’s minimum wage— aka entry level work. Not only all that, but the introduction of tech has actually increased workload for workers who are now expected to operate the same speed as machines. We have essentially been turned into machines. It’s like the beginning of the Industrial Revolution all over again, but for us it’s the beginning of the tech revolution. But yes it’s also true that kids have not been taught delayed gratification.
Everything will always change. You can't stand there and go "oh my gawd our parents had it sooo much better!" I can fill you with anecdotes all day long about people who did and who did not have it made and how they squandered it or even some who ran with it.
E.g. I had a 26 year old with a 4 year degree working at my last company buy a 400,000 house, 50% down working a job for 65k a year, no help from her parents.
Yes, it's harder. Just like it was hard to live through the great depression a scant four generations ago. And the civil war before that. And the revolutionary war before that. And plagues, famines, what have you.
If we don't stand up and overpower our circumstances, we are the weak men in the cycle of times.
Trumps first term created such a strong economy that it survived covid shutdowns and 4 years of ChinaJoe.
If any are alive when Carter was Prez know what the misery index is. Times were tough.
We were told this a movie... It's time to roll the credits.
Seriously. This went from a tom Clancy novel to a Stephen King novel in 2020. We need some relief. Corporate America is getting reduced but small businesses, the kids who have been left behind education wise due to mandates and families are not doing well.
If you play by [their] rules you won't ever win.
We need to queue the Six Million Dollar Man sound effects.
Welcome in the socialism.
You’re still lucky that you don’t have limits what you can buy and how much.
That comes later.
Already coming. Pritzker is putting withdrawal limits on cypto. Days he’s protecting people from the trumps crypto bros writing law in the whitehouse. Notice how they love helping, help you be poor. Help your business be destroyed. Help you be homeless help you with increased medical illnesses. Help with causing inflation.
The media lies and says these socialist ideas are great. But you end up with food lines and basic medicine shortages like Soviet Russia. Cuba. And east Germany
Best post here.