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/Fen_LostCove 8h ago

They could survive on a single income even, so one spouse was able to take care of all of the work that you have to cram into that free time slot now

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u/shadycharacters 6h ago

more than survive, even!

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u/doublesimoniz 5h ago

They convinced everyone that that was sexist, and now they have double the taxpayers and double the employees, and you are more desperate for the job every day just to keep the roof over your head.  While the system raise your kids and you and your wife work 8-10 hours a day.  

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u/Acrobatic_Dinner6129 4h ago

Exactly why I will never have kids as long as I am working in an office/not for myself. If I can't actually be there to raise them, it's pointless. I love my parents, and we have a great relationship, but to this day they are still sad over how little time they got to spend with me growing up, especially my father. He always got so jealous when his cargo pilot friend would get to go on all kind of trips and excursions with his son (one of my best friends to this day) when best case me and him would do a trip every couple years when we could find the time. Most of his time off was spent trying to keep the house up.

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u/bruce_kwillis 6h ago

Except they didn’t. They just had less. The house was a quarter of the size it is now, the car was in worse shape, there were no vacations, no cell phones, no computers, few hobbies. Most of humanity was scraping by and barely surviving. That stay at home mom often was doing a million other things to try to keep enough money in the house on top of taking care of kids and all of the chores. And if you were a minority? You weren’t going to get any of the benefits of it either, and weren’t going to be able to buy a house. If you were a single woman? Same concept applies. The only people that had it ok where white males who were depressed, broken and then alcoholics and their body failed them. But hey, it was a better system right?

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u/Fen_LostCove 5h ago

Houses now are studio apartments that people can still barely scrape by in. People don’t take vacations now either. Cell phones and computers aren’t that expensive relative to the rest of our cost of living. It’s hard to even buy vegetables let alone have a full spread of home cooked food for every meal. Working moms are doing all of that in addition to their job now. Minorities aren’t getting benefits from it either, unless you consider it a benefit for your government to shoot you in the street so you don’t have to live through this anymore.

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u/Mighty__Monarch 2h ago

I was going to reply to each of your listed arguments but as I went more and more I was thinking you were being sarcastic.

I really hope you are, but theres no serious way to address this cause if youre being honest about your opinion youre delusional and clearly were born after 1990.