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What is the point of work anymore?

Like what? The social contract broke years ago and has only gotten worse. I'll never be able to afford a family – not that I want one with the ensuing climate catastrophe. Can't afford to ever own a home. Can't afford even a shitty cheap car. Healthcare, at least in the US, is broken. Same with education and never ending predatory student loans. What's the point of working 40 – 60+ hours a week if all you're doing is barely living? I'm 34 and got laid off during the pandemic after spending years trying to find a slightly decent paying job – which I did briefly in 2019. Every time I go to apply to a job or interview etc. I just think why? What's the point of this? It's all BS. All the ambition and drive in my 20s is dead after so much backstabbing and greedy penny pinching…


Like what? The social contract broke years ago and has only gotten worse. I'll never be able to afford a family – not that I want one with the ensuing climate catastrophe. Can't afford to ever own a home. Can't afford even a shitty cheap car. Healthcare, at least in the US, is broken. Same with education and never ending predatory student loans. What's the point of working 40 – 60+ hours a week if all you're doing is barely living?

I'm 34 and got laid off during the pandemic after spending years trying to find a slightly decent paying job – which I did briefly in 2019. Every time I go to apply to a job or interview etc. I just think why? What's the point of this? It's all BS. All the ambition and drive in my 20s is dead after so much backstabbing and greedy penny pinching by the multitude of employers I've been with. It's caused my trust in society to plummet and assume everyone is out to use me.

This can't be the only way. There has to be something better. The fucking means of production CANNOT be ceased fast enough!

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