Just imagine. The entire modern economy, pretty much anywhere, but certainly in any “Western” nation, is now based on the idea that everyone male and female, works full time…
Universities have become wholly female-dominated. So have many, many professional fields. Most workplaces cater to the wants of middle-class women. So does most government messaging. So does the entire “field” of HR and recruiting…
At the same time, birth rates are crashing to totally unsustainable levels. Children aren’t raised properly at all, and are shipped off to “childcare” or to older relatives, as early as possible. Parents no longer no, or care, how to raise kids.
Cook for your family? Congrats, you’re an outlier. Most people seem to view cooking as some sort of “luxury”, and instead base most meals on either frozen shit, or takeaway and deliver, depending on their background…
Marriage is broken, and hell, most millennials don’t even bother with it. Divorces are higher than ever, and many couples barely even see, or talk to, each other, let alone their kids, anymore. So many kids are from broken homes, now, whatever their background or race…
Yet jobs are still flying offshore (never mind automation. It’s not there yet), and immigrants are still piling in to every Western country, partly to keep the birth rates up, and partly to keep house prices and rents ever increasing… Oh, and to push wages down, of course.
This, despite more “locals” working than ever before. This, despite women demanding ever more catering to from corporate, and all of the “equity” bullshit…
There’s no way any of this is sustainable, and yet it is everywhere… In every single “developed” country.
Some people here like to talk about Russia, but christ, look at their birth rates. Look at China, too. It’s not just “American allies and adjacents” that this is affecting. It’s almost everywhere, with a few very notable exceptions…
Amazing to think that “women's rights” and runaway corporatism, plus unlimited contraceptives (arguably) may be what dooms us, let alone all the trans kids raised on hormones shit…
I would say that maybe some parts of humanity can still correct this ship, but I’m not so sure anymore…
I doubt even in 1980 people would have thought that fucking Nigeria and India would inherit the Earth, but here we are…
/rant
Stop living life for work.
Go join a CrossFit gym and start focusing on improving your body and mind. Work only exists for dollars, so minimize your time at work and maximize your time doing things that matter.
Unfortunately I do the work I do, not for some unrealistic dream like buying a house, or to go on holiday, or to pay for luxuries, but to pay for medical bills for various ongoing things (not mental)…
I know, right? That’s not a great way to live, but… When your body decides “Fuck you, you’re gonna have to deal with this now”, you don’t really have much of a choice…
It’s been like this for a couple of years.
Hard to explain, but it’s just reality.
I’ll try and find motivation to start running and cycling again soon. Can’t really afford the gym right now though.
Yeah, it’s that bad.
Get a job with better insurance. Where I work, premiums for a family of 4 are like $2000/year, and annual cap is $4000. That means for $6000, I get unlimited health events covered, and $4000 of that is pre-tax payments through an HSA.
The individual plans are even less money. I’ve racked up a quarter mil in some years, and all I paid was $6k total, mostly pretax.
I don’t live in the US, so it’s different here…
I pay, like… $700AUD a year, which is what, $500US or so..?
But it’s surprising what it doesn’t cover, actually. Like, this is Australia, so public health covers a lot, and then private on top of that, but I still probably pay… Around $10K (gap) per year, purely on medical stuff..?
Which is a lot, when you have very little…