How do people survive anymore?

Is everything too expensive?

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Harry Dresden

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Every video I get suggested on YouTube about money is about how everything is expensive. Recently I was suggested one by a guy named Grant Rudow that said parents spend tens of thousands of dollars on freaking youth baseball, of all things, and you have to pay these private companies a subscription to film your kids' games. It's insanity. Everything is a subscription or extremely expensive. Everybody is complaining about everything from food to cars being extremely expensive, but I don't notice people struggling like this in my real life, only on the internet, but I have noticed that food is more expensive.

So my question is, how do people survive in this current expensive world, and are things really as bad as people on the internet make it sound, or are they wrong?
 
Give us detailed descriptions of your expenses. Give us your bank account details and social security number. We'll know the answer to your question by examining your spending habits and life style. Where do you live? What do you do all day? What places you visit often? What are the names of your friends and family? Give us your email addresses too, ALL of them.
 
Look at the data on suicide rates by demographic and you'll see people under the age of 45 aren't surviving as well as they used to. I once tried to call attention to this issue, as its getting worse and worse every year but what I've realized is this is the plan. They want a certain percentage of us to die, especially white males, so they can replace us with cheap labor from third world shitholes.

Guess who controls everything? Guess what shitholes provide unlimited retarded slaves. It'll all make sense then.
 
Harry Dresden said:
how do people survive in this current expensive world, and are things really as bad as people on the internet make it sound, or are they wrong?
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In my case, doomposters don't affect my circumstances to the extent that I do; and my comfortable life is a consequence of demonstrating that I understand this.
 
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I think the impulsiveness and consumerism of modern society stems from people who avoid thinking about death. Genuinely, recognize that you are a mortal being and free yourself from the impulse to want/possess and instead choose to focus on having higher quality versions of the same experiences. Better average days vs. needing to break the routine and impulse spend. You do not need an expensive car, you need a car that runs. Food is not expensive if you're going to the store on your own and cooking your own meals, it is if you're a doordash/factor goycattle niggerslave who needs every meal to be an "experience". Bake a fucking lasagna, nigger. Don't work some bullshit job that requires all your time and attention in the first place for a high paycheck. Just do your 9-5, get paid and go home. You have year round food/shelter/heat and luxuries that were once denied to all but kings. You're doing better than 99.9999999% of everyone who came before you. High quality live resin sativa costs $35 and blowjobs can be free.
 
Give them bread and circuses, and they will never revolt.

Food is more expensive, even the goyslop that is killing you. But food is way more addicting, especially with ads knowing what kind of foods you enjoy. Modern circuses are on your phone, it's on your TV, and a lot of it is free. YouTube, tiktok, Instagram is free, porn is free, many popular games are free, but you are the product. You watch the ads, companies sell your data, you buy the subscription for more convenience.

I wonder if parents spend thousands on their children because they think that raises a child. Even though I've never had children, I think the best way for a child to grow is to interact with other kids their age, and that's free.
Harry Dresden said:
So my question is, how do people survive in this current expensive world, and are things really as bad as people on the internet make it sound, or are they wrong?
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They don't. They suffer in silence. But most people find a way to manage. The internet will definitely make you spiteful and miserable, "Why is this brain-dead tiktoker richer than me? Why does this e-thot who shows her ass, make more money in a day than I will make in a year?" But don't let that drag you down. If you have addictions, get rid of them, if you have ambitions, try to work towards them. My ambition in life is free. It doesn't cost me any money, but it will keep me alive.
 
Growing up dirt poor became my superpower as an adult.
I just don't waste money and that's enough to live comfortably even on minimum wage.
Granted, I don't struggle for cash these days but I used to and if I ever will again, I know what to do.

I think a lot of people in the West got used to a lavish lifestyle (at least compared to the rest of the world) and now that times they are a changin, they can't give up the pleasures they enjoyed in the past.
 
the answer is that people sacrifice things in their life to maintain a level of comfort/normalcy due to increasing prices of things.
it hasn't gotten to the point, for most people, to really upend their lives. as a post on 4chan prophetically said, "everything just gets progressively worse"
 
Chromeo said:
I don't think they are, at least not Millennial and down. Shit's too expensive, especially if you're stuck in a blue state or suburb/metro area. My 5 year plan is to live in a van down by the river, which was apparently a life so horrid that it was a punchline back in the 90s.
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Have you seen how expensive a van is these days? Thats not a joke. Vans are fucking expensive as fuck now.
 
Harry Dresden said:
Recently I was suggested one by a guy named Grant Rudow that said parents niggercattle spend tens of thousands of dollars on freaking youth baseball, of all things, and you have to pay these private companies a subscription to film your kids' games.
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What the fuck little league group is making these parents spend that fucking much? Are these like top level kids that are traveling? And why the fuck can't they just record on their phone, will the company sue?
 
You might be horrified to find how bad "surviving" can get to. People will always survive but at times you will feel like you are missing out, this however is a normal feeling and the fact that companies and society has tried to make it abnormal is foolish. Cant have your cake and eat it too as uncle Ted once said. Im sorry you are feeling it. I really hope you can find a way forward. You know its getting hard when you start seeing a surge in scams and general duping of others/cutting corners. I think everybody should put some time aside to make lists of what they are buying and making every month and really audit themselves lol, ive seen some heinous amounts unknowingly spent on subscriptions, you do not need any of those. Yarr matey if you know what I mean. Dont let fomo make choices for you either and no weekend experience is worth going into debt for when you are working class. Debt will slowly bleed you dry and thats how they get you.
 
Tom Peters said:
Have you seen how expensive a van is these days? Thats not a joke. Vans are fucking expensive as fuck now.
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oh god I know, if my grandma didn't leave me her minivan after she died I wouldn't have any kind of vehicle right now (or probably ever, knowing auto prices.) I figure when my folks die, I'm living in my minivan down by the river. If/when the minivan dies, I found a place in Florida that's supposedly really great to be homeless, it has a beach, church, and food pantry all within walking distance of each other. I'll die of exposure somewhere beautiful.
 
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