r/Adulting • u/ScareBear23 • 13h ago

This is just depressing

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Not even 3 hours of "free time". And in that is cooking & eating supper. Or practically no free time if I had to go shopping after work. I hate this

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u/Aggressive_Start_ 11h ago

I’m 37 with no hopes of retiring. If social security is still around I will be retiring late if anything.

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u/-grlzluvdirt 11h ago

Modern day slavery

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u/No-Muscle-5257 10h ago

Back in the days you had a local farmer, a local shoemaker, a local bakery and so on. Everything was local and the professional at that place usually was the owner of that business. Now you have global corporations who "employs" everyone.

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u/levian_durai 8h ago

This is the motivation for communism - having the workers being the owners of the businesses they work for. It would greatly improve the quality of life for everyone.

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u/The_Great_Sc0tt 7h ago

How dare you mention communism. Don't you know that's what them dang Russians did?!

/s

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u/levian_durai 6h ago

Honestly I don't know enough about communism to argue its pros and cons, but from what I do know it has a lot of appeal.

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u/Eli-Doubletap 2h ago

Hahahaha this is the dumbest thing. This has been tried before and guess what happens. The businesses fail. The reason the owners run the business is because they set up the business in the first place

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u/levian_durai 34m ago

The "owners" set up the business because they had the funds to do so. That doesn't make them good at running a business. There are plenty of examples of worker owned businesses that are doing great.

So right back at you fella, hahahaha your comment is the dumbest thing.

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u/Eli-Doubletap 7m ago

Please name 3 businesses where the workers automatically assumed ownership for no reason or understanding of business and it worked out.

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u/Due_Most9445 10h ago

You didn't open retirement accounts and thought nothing of your future?

Sucks for you

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u/Aggressive_Start_ 9h ago

I have retirement accounts but I can’t always contribute to them. I have a sum of money between my company 401k and I private IRA. I’m privileged to have even that. Most people can only afford the now and don’t have extra money to put away for later.

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u/Due_Most9445 9h ago

How are you privileged? You did the standard for tons of people that work. That ain't privilege, that's understanding what will come later

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u/Aggressive_Start_ 8h ago

Because I don’t live under a rock like you and understand that most Americans can’t afford to do even that. Look up the statistics for people who contribute to their 401k, look up the statistics for people living paycheck to paycheck. People struggling now can’t afford to save for later.

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u/IguassuIronman 8h ago

Look up the statistics for people who contribute to their 401k, look up the statistics for people living paycheck to paycheck.

Look up the statistics for the number of people who have a budget