The threshold household income where a family can afford housing, healthcare, childcare, and transportation without relying on means-tested benefits is a lot higher than the official stats suggest.
The threshold household income where a family can afford housing, healthcare, childcare, and transportation without relying on means-tested benefits is a lot higher than the official stats suggest.
The system wants everyone Numb or Dumb.
For extremely successful people, they are busy out of their minds and distracted with sports, shopping, zoned out on comfort and affluence living in a privileges bubble.
For everyone else, the situation is just this futility of never being able to make it. The system is geared to keep everyone stuck and subservient and employable and dependent. Caught in a system of traps that seem designed for maximum inertia.
People either don’t Want anything to change or feel Powerless to make it change. I don’t meet many people who are working to replace the system.
what are they going to replace it with?
nobody is offering them a compelling alternative.
the current system works for 10% of the population, which is enough for most people to feel like they have a shot at making it.
I’ve not beaten the system but am better off and am now out on a limb, but i went from working for someone else to self employed.
My business makes more money now then I ever could working for someone else.
But fuck is a lot of work and if I screw it up it will al go away.