Are people like me - for whom every moment spent thinking about the need for money is a moment spent in anguish - just not supposed to exist?

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Yeah, this.

The real key is to get in, get paid, and get out, and try not to get addicted to prestige or consumption in the process (which is hard when everyone else is addicted to prestige and consumption).

Edit: Also the entire economy would collapse if everyone did this, which is why it, itself, is a utopian vision of capitalism. Capitalism only works if the vast majority of real capital is constantly moving. The precarity is the point.

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Capitalism is voluntary, just move. Unfortunately we have made it illegal for you to simply move to a different place under your own power. It’s going to cost you a lot of money and a few drops of government permission. If you truly want to leave this purely voluntary system, you merely have to participate in this voluntary system to accumulate enough wealth for the proper documents and travel. Hope this heeeellllllped

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brb building a raft to try to get to Cuba and ask for asylum

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Would they actually take you? It would take a few months for me to get there but the river I’m near does lead to the Mississippi which would lead to the Gulf which I could follow until Florida and then the ~90 mile open water journey and I just want out of this fucking place

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The utopian capitalist answer is that this is a flaw in your brain, a symptom of an illness. They will tell you that the healthy human brain will allow you to be happy and find meaning in any and all situations because there exists someone somewhere who could.

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drapetomania rides again

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TIL (that whitey is even more horrible that I knew)

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“if holocaust survivor X is happy, you will own nothing, and you will be happy!”

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“This man has no legs and hustlegrinded his way into shingling a roof. What’s your excuse?” :capitalist-laugh: :bootlicker:

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Just use willpower brooo that’s The Secret™ brooo :so-true:

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Money is energy and we are all made of energy so if you’re poor it’s cause you want to be. What’s Calvinism, never heard of it, try shrooms bro.

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The claim that shrooms/psychedelics are a consistent and reliable way to make people more empathic was quickly dispelled for me by meeting one too many Silicon Valley sociopaths that came out the other side claiming it was empathy to see their own face everywhere into infinity or other narcissistic shit interpretations like that. It was garbage in, garbage out. See also Joe Rogan.

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That’s the neat part, they don’t need an answer, they already have power. They just need excuses, and they don’t even have to be good.

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less than 200 years ago the vast majority of people were farmers and could live on their own for the most part. before the industrial revolution it was like that for most of the planet. The industrial revolution really fucked up the “natural order.”

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Farming was already a mistake. Humans were not meant to do agriculture.

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:a-guy: retvrn to walking slowly at gazelles until they die of heat exhaustion

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The elites don’t want you to know this but the food in the ground is free. You can dig it up with a stick while following a seasonal route timed around exploiting food resources. I have 458 horned melons at home!

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:daniel-quinn-shining:

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