• DonJefe@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 days ago

    A real American scam is believing that you need to monetize your hobbies. Any full time job should pay enough to sustain a person. Everyone deserves to have free time away from work to enjoy whatever they like without having to turn their free time into another income stream

    • Cort@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 days ago

      Lol that’s literally the definition of the ‘American Dream’, or at least it was.

      Anyone willing to work a full 40 hour week was supposed to be able to make a decent living in America. Seems like some time around Reagan things changed.

          • Allonzee@lemmy.world
            11·
            4 hours ago

            Both our parties worship at the alter of that bull.

            The Republicans are fascists, but the Neoliberal Democrats, all Democrats save 2-5 spoiler the DNC hates more than Republicans, are fascist enablers that play pretend that funnelling the value of the nation’s labor to the top few percent somehow won’t lead to fascism.

            Unrestrained capitalism will always lead to fascism.

            • DonJefe@lemmy.world
              11·
              1 hour ago

              Saying that Democrats are the same as Republicans when it come to enabling unrestrained capitalism and fascism is disingenuous. Yes, Neoliberal and centrist Democrats are closer to Republicans than progressive Democrats, but they are still a mile away when it comes to market deregulation to enable said unrestrained capitalism and the cult of personality that Trump is pushing

  • seeigel@feddit.orgEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    Where is the cheapest place with the highest earning potential in the world?

    There should be no need to work for more than an hour per day to survive. Does such a place exist?

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    26·
    3 days ago

    The older I get, the less energy I have to pursue my passions in my downtime. When I was young, it was easy. I’d cook all night learning new things (mostly tech). Now, I just wanna rest. I mournfully look at the books that I bought last summer with fun stuff I’d like to learn. Sigh.

    • Asetru@feddit.org
      7·
      3 days ago

      Same here. Just with three kids added to the mix so I don’t even really have that “downtime that I’d like to use for hobbies but do use to rest” anymore.

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
    51·
    3 days ago

    Stop attacking me with all these memes I don’t believe you this is not personal 😭

  • dontbelasagne@lemmy.world
    77·
    3 days ago

    Existence is nothing more than being god’s slaves. Because god wants us all in shitty jobs instead of following our passions, whatever they may be.