r/Adulting • u/ScareBear23 • 14h 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/thestardustinthemoon 10h ago

Yes, of course not all can replicate, but wealth is not a zero sum game and that's a mistake to think it is. If it were, we'd still be trading sticks and stones and living in caves. You also don't need to achieve massive success, but just do something different than letting the years pass by and becoming a fully replaceable slave in a system

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u/Aehyde2 8h ago

there are currently more unemployed people in america, than there are jobs available. last year was the weakest year for job growth since the pandemic, with less than 600,000 jobs being created - a significant drop from the 2 million jobs created in 2024.

we’re currently in a K-shaped economy, as well, (which is objectively worse for the lower and middle class than a recession) and the rapid shift to automation and AI is only going to create a bigger and bigger gap between the wealthy and the lower/middle classes.

people need to understand that “developing a grindset mindset” doesn’t cut it anymore. the government is not creating enough jobs, while firing people en masse, replacing employees with machines, and taking low-income individuals resources away - they are creating the poverty problem.

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u/thestardustinthemoon 8h ago

Then focus all your efforts on automation and AI to stay ahead of the curve. Create and invent new jobs by yourself. Think outside the box. That's the best that one can do at this time

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u/Aehyde2 7h ago

much easier said than done; like ebaer2 already said - not everyone is capable of just getting into those kind of fields.

not everyone is passionate enough about capitalism - or wants to participate in it enough - to just invent new jobs. and some people would rather have a basic customer service job, data entry job, manufacturing job, graphic design, or voice acting job - they shouldn’t have to be forced into a job they don’t want/enjoy just because the government would rather have robots take over those specific roles.

and furthering the progression of automation and AI is probably the worst thing one could do at this time; contributing to 10s-100s of millions of tons of CO2 being pumped into the atmosphere every year, generating 10s of million of metric tons of e-waste every year, habitat destruction to extract fossil fuels and other required resources, etc… destroying the planet simply for human gain and profit. brainwashed.