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submitted 10 months ago by Hohsia@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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

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[-] CaptnKarisma@lemmy.ml 49 points 10 months ago

unfortunately we have created a society where everyone works. You need two people making a 100k to own property. I agree I do jack shit and I feel like I can't save much. And since we both work the weekends just turn into catching up on cleaning. Free time has plummeted. I'm happy to have a house but man I'm burnt out.

If we are all gonna work i need a 4 day or 3 day work week man.

[-] Hohsia@hexbear.net 30 points 10 months ago

!!!! I try to tell this to people too and they tell me I’m anxious/getting ahead of myself.

truly incomprehensible to me. My dad was the only one working while I was growing up and he as somehow able to provide for myself as well as my other siblings.

It’s almost gotten to a point where I cannot talk about these things because it quickly becomes a conversation about my “inability to adapt” or whatever other bullshit

[-] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

If we are all gonna work i need a 4 day or 3 day work week man.

3 days, <= 20 hours

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