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Why not both? It’s too much to ask?
This has me torn. On the one hand 8k a year just to have a vacation sounds a lot. On the other hand, should we really be accepting concessions on our lives when we know the main reason we need to do monetary concessions is because the fruits of our labor get siphoned from us?
Maybe I’m just too poor to comprehend that 8k vacations should be the norm. Or maybe 8k is too much.
you should buy stock and not go on vacation and then in 10 years you can go on all the vacations you want.
delayed gratification is a hell of a way to build wealth.
So you read my comment and thought it would be good advice to tell me to do the very thing that siphons money away from the workers?
I don’t want to build wealth, I want to live a fulfilling life and I want everyone else to live a fulfilling life. My fulfillment shouldn’t come at the expense of others.
yeah, dude keep refusing to help yourself and then wonder why in 10 years you’re still struggling…
newsflash, you can’t built a fulfilling life without wealth. and you can’t build other people’s lives for them.
and guess what, your very existence comes at the expense of ever blade of grass you’ve stepped on, every chicken you ate, and etc. that’s what life itself is. your little philosophy here basically concludes with ‘kill yourself’ but that too… will come at the expense of others.
but sure, sit around and don’t invest and daydream for the next decade and in 10 years you will still have nothing.
I’d rather struggle and have empathy for my fellow worker than be like you who thinks we should be ripping off the poor people.
OK, be poor and miserable forever then. good luck with that. and blame everyone else for your own personal choices where you actively refuse to invest in yourself. sitting around feeling your feelings isn’t going to improve your life.
those of us who invested will be going on our 8K vacations and living in our houses that we own. and you can scream on the internet how we stole shit from you, or something and how we’re awful people.
First of all, I’m not poor. I come from a poor family but I was blessed with a sharp mind and I’ve been lucky enough that my hard work has given me a rather good life. Due to my life experience I’m acutely aware of not just how incredibly privileged my life is but also how there are people who start from an even worse position than me and will never get to experience a life where they don’t have to worry about whether they can afford to eat, pay rent (let alone own a house) and have clothes on their back. So yeah, excuse me for both having enough empathy to understand the struggles of others and enough privilege to not perpetuate it.
As for awful people, if there’s a beggar on the street shifting through trash to find recyclable bottles or anything to make money and someone comes and takes some of their money would you not consider that kind of a person awful? And yet that’s what investors do, not with just the poor but with everyone who works for a living. Every cent you make from stocks is a cent you take out of the pocket of someone significantly poorer than you.
I’m not going to tell you stop investing. You want a lavish lifestyle that’s how you get a lavish lifestyle. All I’m doing is pointing out that your vanity comes from robbing the poorest of us. If you don’t like being called an awful person maybe don’t do awful things?
so you’re privledged, but you want to like what, cosplay as poor and oppressed online because it makes you feel superior about yourself or something?
gee… that’s not like the entire fucking issue with most leftist politics… and why the legit working-class/poor folks hate leftism so much… because the majority of folks in the movement are champagne socialists such as yourself.
just like all the celebrities talking about how they are suffering too during the pandemic… in their 20 million dollar mansions.
God the insane hypocrisy you are arguing from is just… mind blowing.
You are the same as me, but when I do it, I’m a horrible asshole, and when you do it, it’s wonderful and good. And then you wonder why you can’t build any ‘solidarity’ for your beliefs. BECAUSE YOU ARE A HYPOCRITE.
and yeah I’m clearly destroying society by returning my bottles and cans and STEALING the 1 dollar month in bottle deposits form some hardworking homeless guy… lol what.
dude, if you want to make the world a better place, actaully do it and stop consuming shit content online and deluding yourself into thinking your some hero of the oppressed. You are as about as heroic as Hasan is.