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This “it’s difficult now but things will get better as they always do” rhetoric is really starting to piss me the living fuck off (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago by stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Any day now wages will increase I guess. Any day now the price of a house will be affordable to a human who makes an average salary. Any day now the job market will rebound and AI will be cleaned up and regulated so that everyone has an opportunity to live

Are people just in denial that we are living in a dystopia? The only people I know in my life who have “made it” stumbled into the the most extreme circumstances (some out of complete tragedy and others out of luck), and everyone else is a hamster on a wheel

Anyway, any destinations for expat curious people?

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[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

While this particular brainworm affects not just Americans, it seems that white Americans seem to have the most acute case of it. And older Americans much more than younger ones. I think it has two main causes. One is that older, white Americans have basically had zero friction in their lives. They think everything will work out because everything has worked out pretty great for them. I think there’s also the thing at play here where these people don’t want to actually support policies that would help the situation, either because their taxes will go up or because that means they would have to support politics different from what they’ve supported their whole lives.

To extent that young people say this, I think it’s just a way to be polite without admitting that yeah shit sucks I don’t have any answers either.