• flipht@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Every aspect of life demands 110% from us at all times.

    We are all having to clean an entire house, cook every meal, pay huge mortgages or rents, pay loans, daycare costs, and insurance…for what? We’ve removed all economies of scale for ourselves, and made it to where it’s easier to spend the cash to have someone else do it. They then get the economies of scale that we used to have when we lived with extended family and didn’t have to pay for every basic service multiple times.

    It’s exhausting, and there’s no slack left in the system. You can’t cut back on much to make the rest float, because everything is the maximum cost it can be for even the shitty versions, and prices on everything go up continually with no real raises available for the vast majority.

    We are one major catastrophe away from huge swaths of our population becoming migrant refugees to other states.

    We’ve removed all redundancy and forgot that it’s synonym is resiliency. We are absolutely fucked, it’s just a matter of counting the time before the house of cards collapses.