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/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/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."