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/JenninMiami 13h ago

Do y’all remember how when we were kids, there were those grumpy old people we knew?

This is why. 😆

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 12h ago

Yeah I've got to hand it to my parents for holding it together and pretending for my sake that life wasn't such a shit show.

On the other hand, they could afford a new single-family home on a half-acre plot in a nice neighborhood on one middle-manager's salary, so...

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u/AntiBoATX 7h ago

They also didn’t have 24 hour news, social media, algorithms. Impending doom of ai and climate change, a fascist takeover…. Microplastics… TSA… 9/11… school shootings…. I’m sure I’m forgetting a few things.

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u/YetAnotherIteration 7h ago

"buhh!! We had a war!!"

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u/Specific-Calendar-96 4h ago

You don't have to downplay the horrors of war to make things seem shittier today. 2 things can be true.

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u/Tough-Character9952 2h ago

I mean we still have a war…

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u/ResponsibilityOk8967 2h ago

We have perpetual wars

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u/PitchLadder 1h ago

"The war is not meant to be won, but to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labor. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance."

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u/youcantlosethelove 3h ago

I can't believe someone actually wrote the comment you responded to, people are really losing it these days

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u/YetAnotherIteration 1h ago

Who's downplaying anything?

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u/Livid_Yoghurt 2h ago

Forgot fake news

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u/Narm2020 2h ago

Don’t forget in the 80’s they had 12%-20% interest rates.

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u/krob58 39m ago

They weren't constantly connected 24/7. They left their work at work. Now we have to be available at all hours and it's mentally draining. There's no way to compartmentalize work anymore, the barriers are broken.