• @zeppo@lemmy.world
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    501 year ago

    I’m getting pretty sick of this crap, like I’m sure everyone else is too. “Prices went up!” “Why?” “Because prices went up on everything else!”

    • ██████████
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      I remember when they did the math and average pay today is lower than it was in the Great Depression. I see videos on YouTube about surviving on 1 dollar a day and it has millions of views. People are eating nettle soup the stuff people starved on in the English created famines in Ireland

      It’s cool though could be worse. Still slightly better than Slave or Serf

    • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ
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      141 year ago

      I’m too tired, sick and miserable to riot tbh.

      If I were younger I would try.

      • TurretCorruption
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        41 year ago

        And thats the secret. The weaker and more hopeless we are, the more complacent we are.

    • Lexi Sneptaur
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      211 year ago

      Same I’m a computer engineer and she’s a nurse and we barely get by

      • SokathHisEyesOpen
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        Our rent has gone up $600 in the last 2 years. We haven’t moved, our landlord just keeps raising it.

  • Naja Kaouthia
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    261 year ago

    I just spent $300 USD for food. A thing which I need to live. Existing is dumbass expensive.

  • Norgur
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    211 year ago

    There is a German proverb: Only death is free and it will cost your life.

    • QubaXR
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      11 year ago

      And I’ll scream and spit curses at you if the tip is any lower than 25%

  • @notarobot@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Sign up now and have depression for free for a lifetime. Try our happiness subscription for 7 days with no extra charge.

  • @Squiglet@lemmy.world
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    Was life at any point in our past free?

    I don’t think so.

    And if you go back to caveman times before money, we still paid with blood.

    If anything life is moving into a situation where it might actually be free. But that does not mean freedom.

    We were actually more free in caveman times.

    Its a paradox. The more comfortable we get, the more safe we get, and the less we have to pay for this, in the end we will pay with less freedom.