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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.

What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

I haven’t seen anything specifically as a “trend” but I’ve had a growing amount of paranoia that our entire economy in the US is on the verge of collapse. We keep pushing bigger profits and infinite growth so shareholders who contribute absolutely nothing to society can make more money but that money comes from somewhere. We can’t just magically make more money (we could but there’s multiple reasons we don’t. It doesn’t work out). It comes from the working class. And that working class isn’t getting raises but prices keep rising. I feel like it’s a giant bubble and when it explodes things are going to get really bad. I think people will actually die because we are on an economically unsustainable path and no one cares because everyone wants money now and doesn’t want anything else.

I’m pretty terrified of whats to come.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Don't forget that it has basically infected most of the world too !

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I’m pretty terrified of whats to come.

I see a lot of people say stuff like this and I feel like I'm just waiting around for the collapse yet it keeps not happening.

It kinda reminds me of growing up religious and people being very sure the world was gonna end any minute now and of course it never did.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

People are getting raises though. We recently left a long period of stagnated wage growth.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

My last raise was less than $2k/year. Our CEO got a raise of $50k… inflation has turned my “raise” into a loss. They’re throwing Pennies at everyone hoping they think they’re getting millions. Don’t fall for it.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Only.because a million people died of the plague, and housing costs and greedflation has Aten it away

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