Just a reminder: the US deficit ran at 2.77T in 2021. That’s 5k for every man, woman and child. If you aren’t making 5k beyond your necessary expenses while working you’re net negative.
While working at LabCorp I did the math and realized that I was literally destroying the environment (driving to work), paying into a government that was killing people for oil to subsidize that destruction AND falling into debt while most debt in the US is medical debt (I.e. the bulk of deficit spending that was being spent on the military for those wars so I could sit in traffic and on medical procedures that I was providing) and I was seeing none of it.
I don’t know how we opt out. But I do know that We’re feeding a machine that abuses us and turns around and drops bombs on terrorists that it created.