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  • 1984@lemmy.todaytoLemmy Shitpostjobaphobia
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    3 days ago

    In dollars, about 500.000. So if stocks go up 1%, thats 5000 dollars.

    My monthly costs are about half of that. So im thinking it should work out fine. Its a risk of course, but its not a huge risk to take. I think its going to be fine.


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    3 days ago

    Like the previous poster said, there is a whole world out there where this sort of thing is very cheap.

    In the west, everything is very expensive simply because people have the money to pay that much for it. We are working our entire lives with temporary relief now and then with overpriced alcohol. It sucks.

    Im getting off the 9 to 5 myself this year and living on savings and stock market. Cant waste more of my life at work anymore but im 50 now and worked for 25 years. Im expected to continue working until im 70, but fuck that.




  • 1984@lemmy.todaytoParentingAm I supposed to be enjoying any of this?
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    9 days ago

    You will bond with the kid later, not now. I think its pretty common for dads to connect much later. You didnt carry the kid so you have no connection yet.

    Give it time but also stop doing all unnecessary work. You cant emotionally connect if you are always tired and you associate the kid only with screaming in the background.



  • 1984@lemmy.todaytoPolitical MemesHuge coincidence
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    10 days ago

    You are a lot more advanced than “only animals”. :) We dont see horses chatting on Facebook.

    Sometimes humans excuse very bad behavior by saying animals are doing it, which is very silly to me. You are a human being, not a horse. The only question is, how will you use your abilities that the horse doesnt have? For good or for bad.

    Humans competing with eachother is both the source of financial growth and also the destruction of the planet at the same time. If humans cant be smarter, we will get extinct, which is very fair by nature. We have everything we need to be smarter and if our greed over paper money kills us, so be it.



  • 1984@lemmy.todaytoMicroblog MemesFuture
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    16 days ago

    I laughed so much i cried when watching Idiocracy. Its just that now, we have Trump acting way worse than the characters in the movie, so Im kind of not laughing anymore at where things are going.

    Its some large psy-ops where people are supposed to feel like the world is so insane and there is nothing they can do. But outside of this “social” media, there are a lot of decent, intelligent people still around who doesnt buy into all the bullshit.

    Unfortunately a lot of young people will believe this is normal, since they dont know how it was before.




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    21 days ago

    Im just being honest. Not sure how many people feel like I do about it. Perhaps just a handful, perhaps millions.

    But yeah, im sure its selfish to just not care that much about what happens to humanity.

    Im selfish in that way. I accept what happens.





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    22 days ago

    I think its capitalism that is pulling societies from plenty to scarcity, because that is what the system is designed to do. We didnt have ultra capitalism in the west until the last decade or so. You can blame boomers for becoming rich in that system, or you can realize that your generation would not make a difference.

    Now we are in the end game of capitalism where billionaries own it all and the world turns into the masses being monitored by technology, while having just enough to pay the bills. Because if they had enough to stop working for the billionaires, they would.

    I dont think any of this has to do with boomers specifically or that they were more selfish than others. It was just the time when capitalism were booming. Now its over and your generation is late to the party… Its just natural.

    Perhaps on the other side of capitalism, something more fair comes along, or maybe humanity turns into fascism for a while.