• Machinist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 个月前

      I started working in shops around 2000. I’m so fucken over it.

      Learn a trade, may not always pay great but you can always find something.

      Live below your means, assume you could be laid off at any time. If you’re able to buy a house, don’t buy too much house.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    161·
    1 个月前

    The US is in decline. Hastened by Republican ideology, accelerationists, and general willful stupidity and ignorance to varying degrees across the board. The “economy” revolves more and more around the stock market which only serves to enrich the already well off and wealthy while the rest of the ~90% flounder.

  • hark@lemmy.world
    363·
    1 个月前

    The economy is always bad. The idea is to make people feel insecure and desperate so that they take on more/worse work for less pay. They’ll use every excuse under the sun, from “we can’t afford to pay workers” to “AI could do your job” and it doesn’t matter if it’s true because there are fewer companies growing larger who control so much of the employment landscape that they can unify against workers and make it so.

    • Artemis@lemmy.ml
      41·
      1 个月前

      As a millennial (in the middle) I legit assumed this was referring to me 😅

      • TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world
        34·
        1 个月前

        Everything has been a downward slide our entire lives which means it also rolls downhill for all the future generations too until someone can yank back on the economic flightstick and get us out of this dive.

          • tetris11@lemmy.ml
            7·
            1 个月前

            No… no… No.

            Let’s have some weird destablizing tech that rich people cannot control or bank on to level the playing field a little. (No, not AI - something like pre-2010 internet). That or aliens, who have the sole goal of trading with us only once our Gini coefficient drops to less than 0.05

            • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
              3·
              1 个月前

              First thing anyone with matter replicators needs to do is IMMEDIATELY replicate 100 replicators and send them to enough countries that there’s no WAY for any corporation or rich fuck to quash it and maintain dominance.

              Replicators would immediately destroy any economic system because no economic system would be needed when everything you can think of is a button press away.

              Honestly any version of replicators…

              • Bags@piefed.socialEnglish
                2·
                1 个月前

                I’ll put on my best Keiko voice and disappointed stare.

                “But Miles, where do you think the matter replicators get their matter from? And where does the power to run them come from? Until there is a complete and total change in human philosophy regarding the accumulation of wealth, any required resource will become the new vehicle of capitalistic control.”

                • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
                  1·
                  1 个月前

                  Matter=energy=matter.

                  If you can replicate matter with energy, you can turn matter into energy.

                  First you use a little wall power or even solar power, replicate some chargeable power cells, and then hey look you’ve got some portable replicating that will work without an obvious power source.

                  And as long as you have enough matter on hand to convert to energy, you have enough power to replicate things until we replicate space tech like deflector dishes and bussard collectors to soak in all that tasty hydrogen that’s just laying around all over the universe.

                  Jaysus, Keiko, it’s like you don’t even listen to me when we’re having dinner…

                  back to the pattern buffer for you I guess…

  • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
    301·
    1 个月前

    As someone born in the early 80’s, just for once I’d like a nice, boring decade. Pretty please.

    Saw the fall of communism, the Balkan wars, 9/11, the rise and fall of the internet, the dotcom bust, the 2008 financial crisis, Arab Spring, Brexit, global pandemic, war in Europe again, US politics, middle-east still fucked as usual. And then there’s climate change to fuck over everything in general.

    So yeah, I’d love a decade where nothing happens. Heck, I’ll take a boring six months at this point. Gimme a fucking break.

  • enkers@sh.itjust.works
    148·
    1 个月前

    Suddenly

    As if this hasn’t been going on for decades.

    My solution is to do the very minimum I can to get by and otherwise enjoy my minimalist life. Fuck consumerism with a 10ft pole. Let it rot.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 个月前

        Capitalism has been rotting out the interior of the industrialized world for decades. The dogged belief that Gore or Kerry or Hillary or Harris would have insulated the US (much less the rest of the world) from the same foibles and failures committed by Clinton and Obama and Biden is painfully naive. Nevermind the disastrous administrations of Trudeau and Starmer and Felipe Caldaron.

        The idea that you just need a competent liberal technocrat in charge to make a country work never seems to bare out in practice. We get an earful about liberal reforms that will fix everything, but then those reforms either never arrive or get so watered down in the offering that they’re meaningless.

        Trump’s revanchism is actively breaking a rotted out institutional economy. But we’ve been living in a progressively-more-gutted-out house since the end of the Reagan Admin. “The Free Market” is the root of this decay, not any one of its particularly boorish champions.

      • MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works
        571·
        1 个月前

        We can’t lay all of the blame on trump.

        The problem is conservatism in general. Every Republican president of the past 50 years has caused economic turmoil. When Republicans get power in the legislature, the only notable thing they work towards is tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, and gutting things that help people in order to pay for it.

        Trump isn’t singularly the problem here, but he is so fucking stupid that he’s speedrunning the economic crisis. A Republican with a halfway functional brain would know to move slowly enough that the economy falls apart as they’re heading out the door, not within the first 20% of their term.

        Start selling trump “I did that!” stickers of him pointing up at the eclipse. You’ll start seeing them everywhere soon. Gas pumps, grocery store shelves, car dealerships, etc.

        • Oxysis/Oxy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          191·
          1 个月前

          Mhmm conservatism is a blight on humanity, nothing good will ever come of it. Every single time a conservative gets in power anywhere it always makes things worse. It is a fucking parasite that most be removed or else it will be the end of you. It denies progress, why do you think we constantly have to fight for basic human rights? Why do you think they want to go back to the 1950’s so badly? They hate that they can’t be openly racist, openly homophobic and openly transphobic. They want to drive everyone into having to play up to their ideals regardless of what you want.

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      1 个月前

      Yeah, after being taken advantage of by every employer I ever had and still struggling financially I started to realize it’s beneficial for my mental health to fuck off as much as I can without getting fired. Just ride that fine line. If they treat you like they want subpar work, give them subpar work.

      And yeah, stay minimalist. Don’t burden yourself with subscriptions. Don’t buy things that require a lot of maintenance. Don’t over-extend yourself. It’s better for your mental health.

      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        4·
        1 个月前

        This is how I started off, earning £600 a month on apprenticeship wages and having to pay rent for a bedroom in a shared house. When my wages increased I continued living as I was. Holy shit, now I can save £5-10k a year on minimum wage.

        Now my new “problem” is not knowing how to spend my money. I still barely earn over minimum wage (£26k) but even though I now have a mortgage, I earn a fair bit more than enough to pay for it and all the essentials. I don’t want bullshit consumerist crap. Currently it goes into savings but I have nothing I particularly want to save for, maybe pay off the mortgage sooner and cut back on hours worked?