Nope, I can assure you that 90% of my problems would be fixed if I could afford to live
My depression pretty much went away once I started making over $80k
Financial stability does wonders for the mental state. That and quitting booze which is a heavy factor in the lack of financial stability.
I went from making $17 (around $34k per year I think) to about $60k in a low cost of living area, and it was completely life changing. I could just... afford things. Definitley see how it helps mental health.
I mean, the planet is dying, the nazis are back, and we're being greed-flation'd into completely unnecessary poverty...
So yeah, there's more to it than price tags, but of the things that make this reality a dumpster fire, cost of living is one of the hardest hitters we might have some shred of hope of alleviating in our lifetime... so... can we build some fucking guillotines, already?!
Not to mention I'm trying to save up for a two-bedroom apartment that costs 4x what my brothers four-bedroom house cost when he purchased it 10 years ago.
God finding out I pay twice as much a month for a shitty apartment than what someone I know does for a mansion out in the suburbs which keeps me from ever being actually able to get enough money saved to put a down payment (that is constantly rising higher) to even hope to get a house so that I'm not paying whatever someone feels like charging me for necessity housing....
Yeah that shit is crushing.
Wealth inequality, out-of-control prices, climate chaos, political extremism, and nothing is being done to fix any of it. There’s no one at the wheel and we’re headed for a cliff.
I imagine what will happen that will “snap” the world into some sort of action is a huge environmental disaster that damages a shit-ton of property, an environmental 9/11 moment. A major city will get permanently flooded and have to get abandoned, to which people will be like, “How could this have happened?” Bitch, scientists have been warning us for decades, we’ve been sleepwalking into this for ages. At that point, maybe we’ll get serious about it, but by that point it may already be too late.
Nobody really cared about the long term impacts of hurricane Katrina, and the rich just used it to privatize a bunch of shit, and then they got richer. I wish something like that would be enough to make people give a shit, but we've just been there before.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/06/naomi-klein-how-power-profits-from-disaster
You mean in the US, right? Cuz Libya isn't doing so great from flooding. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/13/libya-flooding-before-and-after-satellite-images-northeastern-floods-derna
Part of the delusion is that it isn't real until it happens to them, so yes.
And before anyone says anything, the Libya flooding was partly caused by climate change.
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/13/1199273629/climate-change-exacerbates-deadly-floods-worldwide
I'm pretty sure it happened on 9/11 too. If that doesn't confirm what op is saying, I don't know what would.
Wealth inequality, out-of-control prices, climate chaos, political extremism, and nothing is being done to fix any of it.
One party is fighting against fixing it, and the other is doing (depending on the issue) either nothing or implementing laughably inadequate "solutions" that they order us to be satisfied with.
And then anything that is passed is struck down by bad faith courts.
My money is on that city to flood will be New York. That will make the global rich notice.
Yeah, I think New Orleans wasn't a really as much a "rich people problem" as much as what a flooding of NY would be. That's when people will have their come-to-Jesus moment and be like, "Oh shit, we should probably start doing something about this!"
We won't though. The rich will move to their 2nd or 3rd homes until there is nowhere else to go. The rest of us who aren't cultists will continue screaming until our vocal chords snap. And by that point the smog will be too thick to take another breath.
Our only hope, our only choice, is action. Right now, this year. Or we can scavenge for substance as the last is swallowed by the flies.
A major city will get permanently flooded and have to get abandoned,
Oh man, good thing the NYSE is in Manhattan, which we all know is on top of a mountain, thank goodness its not on an island basically adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean, because that would endanger the Most Important Thing Ever™ if it were to flood.
I'm 30 and don't feel like a have a future in the way that other generations before me had. Can't even imagine how those younger than me must be feeling. I at least got to fuck around a bit in my early youth as you could still afford to then. I grew up knowing climate change was coming, but it wasn't until my mid 20s when I started to lose hope in our ability to address it. Still got a good 25 years of feeling hopeful though. Kids these days get none of that.
Economists, the priests of the state religion of Capitalism, cannot understand why the laypersons aren't rejoicing over record profits for the Eternal and Unaging Corporations.
Look, everyone knows that the climate is fucked. It would take a big all in push to fix it. We haven't even started. And, having just tried to get our act together to drive a new emerging disease into extinction, something that should have been relatively easy, we failed and devolved into such fractious infighting over that simple thing that no one even wants to outright acknowledge how fucked we are.
So, yeah. You could say there's a bit of an unshakable gloom, if that's what you're into.
One major societal problem we need to fix in America is our neighbors who are literally insane and not living in reality. They have gone beyond politics at this point, and have become Qanon cult wackos with mental disorders. They can't answer basic questions that orient them to time and place, like who is the president, and what year it is. They think Trump is the "shadow" president and that history/reality is fake, and that the United States is a corporation because Republican lies incorporate all these fake lies into one big mish mash. And when that breaks through for them every once in a while and they're forced to accept reality (see: dying from Covid) they become dangerous to others in the real world.
You can't have such a large % of people believing that Reptilian Jews are eating the blood of babies to remain younger, and that ALL of them are Democrats. Never mind how their minds dodge the fact that the majority of Republican politicians are the sex offenders. They have even more insane beliefs than that I've seen that it looks like schizophrenia.
I really want health professionals to step in here because most of us don't have the expertise to deal with something so bad in our friends and neighbors.
I like to ask those that claim donnie is the "real" president why it is that he's being indicted and having trials?
Their response is usually "he's not the real Trump" and "that's not the real Biden." Just expect a new made up event to explain away reality.
gestures broadly at everything
Is someone going to pitch a Jimmy Carter malaise speech to Biden?
Then all we need is for OPEC to do an oil price hike and someone to take some hostages and negotiate with the Republican candidate's campaign to release them AFTER the election and we can have the 80s all over again.
Given we already have a War on Drugs era President, this is amazing.
I want to go back to the peanut farm..
The vibes are fucked. You can't fix that without something big.
tl;dr: Because most of us know that we're fucked and there's little to nothing we can do about it.
I think we can do something if we had leadership but who the fuck wants that job?
I did. I tried to go to a group that supposedly helps put "progressives" into government positions and they started and ended the conversation by asking me how much money I had and telling me I'm not wealthy enough to hold political office. No talk on policy, or how to get started. No.
"Do you have enough to pay us and then some more for buying your way into power? Oh... well can you ask your parents for money?" "Oh you are a Buddhist? Well they can be generous, do you know any wealthy Buddhists that would loan you money?"
When even those "helping" are actually just looking for a payday and trying to do it with a painted lie of helping we are so fucked
This world that we made fucking sucks for everyone but the ones with a shit load of money, we extracted the magic to transform it into profit. Fuck this place.
I never knew you could clam bake with an umbrella!
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