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Originally Posted by jwb
I've heard this complaint before. I'll just say... This is something that will always fall deaf on broke ears. "All it does is stop you from having to worry about finances." This is literally everything to someone struggling to keep their head above water. So to us all that **** about emptiness and lack of meaning sounds like people who have no actual problems and start inventing ****.
I know money doesn't buy happiness. But neither does poverty. At least money buys some other ****.
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Which is something I ****ing said. I'm not arguing for being poor. I'm arguing that not being poor is still empty, just in a different way. It's all empty unless you have a different approach than just "If I make more money everything will be better." Human beings evolved to live in scarcity, so when we don't have scarcity we're living in a way we weren't evolved to live. So should it be a surprise that having enough money isn't fulfilling all by itself?
All ****ing day I've been fantasizing about having a sailboat and sailing across the world and living a life of adventure because the thought of having enough money to live comfortably is ****ing empty unless I can do something challenging and exciting with it. And living a comfortable middle class life that is just paying bills, living in a house, and raising kids with enough money to do so is in no way challenging or exciting to my scarcity instincts so of course it is going to be an empty existence. So I might as well buy a sailboat and have to deal with the challenge of sailing.
Modern middle class society is ****ing soulless and pointless.