Oh but you *are* rewarded! With extra work! 😭😭😭

Republicans are the foot soldiers of the rich elite. Until they themselves learn that the enemy is the rich elite and not minorities, they will act against the best interests of the 99%.

That's the precise reason that stupidity is running rampant right now. Those who know better sit idly by and allow ignorance and idiocy to be perpetuated.

There is only money.

And of course you never find out until it's crunch time. 😟

This is just heartbreaking :(

A short version, there's much more, but Mother Teresa allowed her patients to suffer pain and discomfort so they would be "closer to God" and also denied a lot of medical treatment. She herself would fly to California (IIRC) for treatment from world class doctors if she was unwell.

Human resources, like natural resources, are there to be exploited in corporate processes and the waste products disposed of as cheaply as possible.

Money does not trickle down because the top s?cks.

I don't mind the odd affair here and there that you find out about later. These days it seems as if that's all that they did, what the heck (I know this devastates the partner involved, but at least they have limited their damage). What upsets me is when you find out they were actually a fascist (i.e., Henry Ford) or stole or diverted lost of money to themselves (many politicians) or used their money to screw their employees (the owners of most large businesses and corporations) or turned out to be people who lived entirely differently than they appeared to the public (Mother Teresa, Gandhi, etc.). I think that I am as mad at myself for not having done the research to find out the person I previously admired was such a bad person.

I still feel like I'm a teenager pretending to be an adult

A major theme of the novel Enders Game.

Finding out that retirement is something I'll never come anywhere close to reaching.

Unfortunately, I'm living this reality at this very moment. Holy c**p it's hard.

I did this last month. My own fault. I was buying a lot of them because we have little mousies invading our house as winter sets in (we live in the middle of an agricultural area in southwest France and are surrounded by corn, grape, wheat, and sunflower fields during growing time), so I grabbed several stacks of Tupperware without checking. I got the opposite - one set was all bottoms and no lids. However, the upside is that all the mice voted me "Queen of the Harvest" after that and threw a little party for me. 🐁 🥳 🐁 🎉🐁 (Edited for misspelling)

I don't mind this; my Mom has done so much for me, I'm always happy when I can help her in return, even if it's a little thing like showing her how to use an app. And I bet if Dad were still around, it'd be the same.

Disorganised religion, on the other hand, is the sh£t, dude.

That's what my wife tells me when it's my turn to put the kids to bed.

It's been that way since Saint Ronnie Reagan in the US. Except for the C-suite, which went from 40 times the lowest wage to 400 times the lowest wage, partly thanks to government sanctioned union busting.

The hardest point of my life so far was when i was 8. My dad died, and my mom couldent take care of me and my little brother for a few months. I stayed with my grandparents, and my little brother stayed with my other grandparents. I started going to a new school, with everyone speacking in a language i knew only a little. It was super hard to deal with greif. And for everyone else, life goes on. No one knows what youre going through.

Sadly enough, this doesn't mean they are devoid of charm and therefore can do a LOT of damage.

Hah...indeed😒

No it's not. Is it what the corporations are trying to do, yes. But still every little act matters. It also depends a lot of the country's recycling infrasturucture. If recycling is made easier, much more people do it. And if bigger amount of people recycle, there are better ways to develop the whole industry. We have every kind of recycling bins in every single apartment complex in the cities, and close in other parts too, so it's just a everyday normal thing to recycle for us. It should be made as easy everywhere.

My dream kept getting downsized until it became more a figment of my imagination.

They help prevent the poor from killing the rich.

It's not just a $1500 a month mortgage though. It's property taxes, and insurance, and all the other higher taxes that go along with owning a home. If your roof needs to be replaced, or your pipes burst, you don't get to call the landlord and say "fix it" you've got have the thousands or 10's of thousands on hand to do the repair yourself.

The basement of health insurance? Wait. What about it? 🤔

It is, if you have to spend it on bare necessities.

Yup, in my 40s as well and still wondering when the tutorial will be over.

Really? We knew that long before we were adults. My parents also never adressed each other as "Mom" or "Dad" (or even many pet names like "dear", at least not that we heard) - they wanted us to know their real names and that they had had their own lives before us and still did, to an extent. I know they were never perfect, but they didn't have to be - I would not want any other parents than them ♥

*chuckles in poor with a PhD*

Exploitation

My A-ha moment was in the 80s...I didn't think it would Take on Me, but it did.

For some.

Modern workplace hierarchy is more akin to 18th century military. It's rare that someone will be raised from the ranks.

Depends on the country. (Which in not the way it's supposed to be)

Having worked blue collar and white collar, I can say definitively that blue collar is a hell of a lot more fun and fulfilling.

A house for 100k??? Couldn't find a shed for that in the UK.

"Keep up the good work" - Not praise but a requirement.

The old joke.... What did one bachelor’s degree holder say to the other bachelor’s degree holder..." would you like fries with that " 😉

A dishwasher

I am that partner right now 🫣

In life there is no such thing as "closure". Things just hurt less as time passes.

No adults, just teenagers pretending to be elders. Or elfs, I don't remember.

There is some, how else would the illusion maintain itself?

In Spain we have the “ Paga extra de Navidad “ (Christmas bonus), which is a payment of the same amount as your monthly salary and is paid before Christmas. We also have a “paga extra de verano” summer bonus, which is paid before the summer vacation and is the same amount. If your job includes a variable salary according to your objective, you have an additional extra pay that is a percentage of your salary or a fixed amount determined in your contract.

I think that's great. It means I've had the governments money for a year instead of them having mine.

Social Security was never about getting someone else's money, it is about getting your money back. This is not an entitlement but a pension, half paid by your employer. It is paid on first dollar of earnings and stops when you make more. The Republicans want you to believe it is a tax. If it is it is the most regressive tax on the books. How they spent your money is another thing.

I thought I was James Bond, damn.