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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.
American propaganda is the highest quality the world has ever seen, and ever will see.
“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.
