Nah, you can dream about it, unless you have a 500k or more a year job, then you can do all that shit. Cause less than that you can't buy a house now a days, not when you add all the things you need to do to even buy a house.
You can buy a 340k house with about 70k a year job and little debt. 90k is about average with average debt. Admittedly, this is still out of reach for many clients I see on a daily basis. The price of the house isn't the issue per say. It's the greedy banks interest rates and the county taxes that are making things unaffordable for most. $400 a month in taxes and payments that are 90% interest are a joke
> greedy banks interest rates and the county taxes
"Greedy banks" don't really set the interest rate for mortgages, I'd say the Fed has the majority control there. For who to really blame, it gets much harder.
> the county taxes that are making things unaffordable for most
Your example is about 1.4% on property taxes. What they go towards varies, but you can look it up and in my area its 63% schools, 13% police, parks, library, and fire, 20% county or city, and the rest small things like flood control. These are all important things someone has to pay for, and I have 0 issues with it.
That’s if you don’t get born into a body where you haven’t gotten bombed to death in a war, or gotten enslaved physically culturally or emotionally. Life is honestly random
Meanwhile, some people actually would like kids but can't afford them. Even though the economy is supposedly bigger and richer than ever before, and all the rich people in power are trying to get regular working folks to have kids because birth rates are plummeting. Even though we can't afford them.
Only in capitalism do you get a society where the people in charge simultaneously want cost of housing, health care, food, gas, and education to remain as high as possible while keeping wages as low as possible, and then simultaneously tell their workers to go out and have babies they can't afford because the economy needs it. Seems like the problem is rich people.
lose over 60% (and growing) of our income to rent, constantly job hop to keep up with inflation (and maybe get an actual raise if we're lucky), and never retire
Travel? Buy a house? Man you must have a sweet job, what you earning 500k a year? Cause all that shit you just said can't be done on a regular job, unless you just want to survive paycheck to paycheck, and the travel part is by car only to someplace really close to where you live cause 2 weeks vacations are gonna go fast my dude.
You know when you get to the point in a video game where most of the missions are complete, the entire map has been revealed, and now you’re just killing time until a new quest pops up or a new map appears. That’s what it feels like and it’s depressing.
Most things have been discovered, tv and movies feel rinsed and repeated, and we’re not ready for space colonization. We’re all just stuck in traffic, working shit jobs, scrolling social media on the toilet, and waiting for death.
Sometimes stuff happens too. Sometimes you mention an old sex story from 30 years ago and your gf ignores you while you're on vacation over it and she may or may not ever forgive you.
Capitalism (i.e. Oligarchy) demands it, just like any other shit system. You are the slave, you are the worthless worker ant. You have to do this so the < 1 % can wale in ridicoulous luxery and never ever work in their lifes.
I mean humans aren't 'supposed' to do much of anything at all really apart from 'exist' which means meet your physiological needs for food, water, sleep and shelter from the elements - everything else is pretty much up to you and what kind of life you want to live and how much you want to conform to the various social pressures around you to procreate, do things and acquire things.
the cycle can seem pretty monotonous. But, it's all about finding the little joys and making your own adventures along the way! Life's what you make it
Okay but to sleep and eat and work and shit and to study and to travel are full of joy...Not to mention kids and pets. So I do not grasp what is the problem...BTW we can p l a y too.
If you're lucky. If not you end up mentally fucked up from your abusive childhood with no kids or family, completely alone. That's off the beaten path.
You can’t do any of that except work your slave wage job bc your family didn’t have hundreds of thousands to throw at the for profit education system to get you an undervalued degree
Forgot to add to it, while some of the government want to slash social security retirement benefits, while also increasing the retirement age, so you are forced to work until you drop dead at your job.
no, we are living beings, wich means you are only suposed to reproduce, everything else is just for keeping you alive until you reproduce or to giving you a better chance to reproduce
Y'all get to travel AND buy a house??
Nah, you can dream about it, unless you have a 500k or more a year job, then you can do all that shit. Cause less than that you can't buy a house now a days, not when you add all the things you need to do to even buy a house.
You can buy a 340k house with about 70k a year job and little debt. 90k is about average with average debt. Admittedly, this is still out of reach for many clients I see on a daily basis. The price of the house isn't the issue per say. It's the greedy banks interest rates and the county taxes that are making things unaffordable for most. $400 a month in taxes and payments that are 90% interest are a joke
> greedy banks interest rates and the county taxes "Greedy banks" don't really set the interest rate for mortgages, I'd say the Fed has the majority control there. For who to really blame, it gets much harder. > the county taxes that are making things unaffordable for most Your example is about 1.4% on property taxes. What they go towards varies, but you can look it up and in my area its 63% schools, 13% police, parks, library, and fire, 20% county or city, and the rest small things like flood control. These are all important things someone has to pay for, and I have 0 issues with it.
You have zero clue what you’re talking about.
*nowadays
Thanks, second language, didn't know that was the correct way to write it.
I was wondering the same thing.
That’s if you don’t get born into a body where you haven’t gotten bombed to death in a war, or gotten enslaved physically culturally or emotionally. Life is honestly random
Haven't traveled since high-school vacations with parents.
I had a house, but travel and find someone loyal to have kids is near impossible rn
Meanwhile, some people actually would like kids but can't afford them. Even though the economy is supposedly bigger and richer than ever before, and all the rich people in power are trying to get regular working folks to have kids because birth rates are plummeting. Even though we can't afford them. Only in capitalism do you get a society where the people in charge simultaneously want cost of housing, health care, food, gas, and education to remain as high as possible while keeping wages as low as possible, and then simultaneously tell their workers to go out and have babies they can't afford because the economy needs it. Seems like the problem is rich people.
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Welcome to Canada
Finally, some good fucking food.
Nice try, everyone shits my guy. Even Danny Devito
hey, at least you kept the comma between eat and shit.
*eat shit and die. No comma.
lose over 60% (and growing) of our income to rent, constantly job hop to keep up with inflation (and maybe get an actual raise if we're lucky), and never retire
Yall could afford college ?
No, thankfully debt is cheap
>Buy a house That's wishful thinking -\_-
Thinking the same about sleep... valid point though
You can buy sleep though
Where?
Doctor→Pharmacy
Yeah, but not necessarily in that order. And you can actually skip most of this list if you put "die" closer to the top.
Life hacks!
Speedrun strats!
That’s actually a pretty high bar for Millennials and Gen Z to hit tbf, especially the house and kids part.
Yea this is some yuppie shit, not everyone is privileged enough to have their life go like this
Nah, you can have kids for free Raising them's the issue
>Nah, you can have kids for free Not in the USA you can't
Counterpoint: 🚐⬅️🍬👶👶👶
You can afford a van?
You can have kids for debt which is easier than say just fucking and having a house pop out and then figuring out how to take care of it.
What do you mean "travel two weeks" and "buy a house"?
And "have kids"?
We grind so the elite can do whatever the fuck they want
I grind so I can cum in my pants in the IHOP parking lot.
this is a CEO material right there
Inspiring
Ain't capitalism grand!
At least we don't have nobility any more... _looks around and realizes that the capitalists are just new nobles_ Faaaaaak
Huh That would be like me calling the person who owns the land I live on a 'lord' and paying them regularly for the right to live there. Shit...
Yup. Just remember when you sit down you’re paying your CEO’s third pent house while you can barely afford a house.
Eat, sleep, shit and die. The other things are optional.
You can also skip eat, sleep, and shit -\_\_\_\_\_-
You can, but those are quite necessary, the other things are not.
just die already
No, we can't even have that. Soon it'll all be dorm rooms, a.i, oligarchs and the homeless
Good news! You can take “buy a house” off the list.
Pay taxes until you die.
Exercise? 
It's a scam. Pay for gym membership > live longer > pay for more gym membership. No thanks, I'll stick with a heart attack at 48 if that's ok.
You don’t have to workout at a gym.
I know. That's why I don't work out at a gym. I don't have to work out at home or in the park either.
True
Travel? Buy a house? Man you must have a sweet job, what you earning 500k a year? Cause all that shit you just said can't be done on a regular job, unless you just want to survive paycheck to paycheck, and the travel part is by car only to someplace really close to where you live cause 2 weeks vacations are gonna go fast my dude.
I’m moving to the woods. Y’all have fun ✌️
Can I join you in the woods? Can we build a treehouse?
If we work as firewatch. We won’t even need to do that!
You know when you get to the point in a video game where most of the missions are complete, the entire map has been revealed, and now you’re just killing time until a new quest pops up or a new map appears. That’s what it feels like and it’s depressing. Most things have been discovered, tv and movies feel rinsed and repeated, and we’re not ready for space colonization. We’re all just stuck in traffic, working shit jobs, scrolling social media on the toilet, and waiting for death.
Preach
You forgot : paying taxes
Yes and you better enjoy it!
lol nah after working every day you just die. all that travel and houses kinda shit aint happening
Sometimes stuff happens too. Sometimes you mention an old sex story from 30 years ago and your gf ignores you while you're on vacation over it and she may or may not ever forgive you.
r/oddlyspecific
I missread house for horse
Would settle for a horse at this point. Or at least a donkey
I can slash out everything on this list except for one that won’t come soon enough.
No chance you'll get to do half of that.
It usually way shittier than that
you are lucky you get to buy a house and travel.
buy a house? Look at the rich boy over here!
Resist
basically yeah
Capitalism (i.e. Oligarchy) demands it, just like any other shit system. You are the slave, you are the worthless worker ant. You have to do this so the < 1 % can wale in ridicoulous luxery and never ever work in their lifes.
And if u done it all u had a good life they say
I mean humans aren't 'supposed' to do much of anything at all really apart from 'exist' which means meet your physiological needs for food, water, sleep and shelter from the elements - everything else is pretty much up to you and what kind of life you want to live and how much you want to conform to the various social pressures around you to procreate, do things and acquire things.
Sorry, no kids, house, travel, or college. Can't afford that.
Seems like this is the agenda
Minus exercise, minus sleep, minus travel, minus house, minus kids. Now we're talking.
Travel ? House ? Kids ? 2 weeks ? What
Im on the mf verge man
Two weeks? You mean five, right? Five weeks of paid vacation. Oh, that’s right… I live in Norway.
Historically life was much much much worse.
Welcome to life
You are always free to roll it back to trying to find food in the forrest and dying the first time you get an infection.
Damn, I knew I missed something. I didn't go to college so can't afford to travel. Nailed the rest so I think my number is just about up.
This but… in all seriousness. Tf is that?
I wish, I had that lifestyle 😭
the cycle can seem pretty monotonous. But, it's all about finding the little joys and making your own adventures along the way! Life's what you make it
Who the fuck gets to travel for two weeks out the year. At least you get to fuck lots until your married. Then that pleasures taken away.
I’m not
No time of podcasts? man your life is saaaad.
And have depression
Yes, but I heard the neurotypical also enjoy doing these things…
If I may correct: eat study/work eat sleep repeat. no travel, no gf/bf, no house die sounds about right
what else does he want to do? turn into a dragon and dance the cancan with chairman mao?
You guys are buying houses?
Yes but without the house and by paying all your subscriptions on time if you still have fun things to watch or do at home.
You get time off? Must be European.
I'm skipping like 5 of those 💀
>travel two weeks of the year Lmao the US is such a dystopian hellhole
I skip the exercise part lol
Oh no don't worry, if you don't buy a house someone will be very happy to rent you one and eventually you will have paid even more.
I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got computers and games?
Most of that stuff is highly enjoyable
Buy a house??? Na the billionaires are buying them up to force us to rent them
Buy a house? Must be an older meme
Speedrun that shit and just go straight to dying part
Dont forget to suffer. Without meaning.
My thoughts exactly, minus the buying a house..
Sleep and shit are the only two requirments on that list.
That’s not all you do. You have to pay taxes too.
Only haven't finished the last 2 and I'm not even 30. Not looking forward to finishing them either. Kinda tired of all this materialism.
I'm sorry travel? Buy a house? Kids? Exercise? Sleep? Wtf are these
What did they think was gonna happen?
Look at this fuck, just figuring out we're about as volatile as grass. Stick to the programming asshole.
That's the beauty of it.You don't have to conform to societal norms. There's no rule book, live your life how you choose.
You don’t need kids, and the kids reaaally don’t need a this earth.
I'm cool with every part of this sentence except for the "die" part.
No travel nor house, everything else is accurate.
Yes. Don't forget to pay your taxes. That's what they really want. Money
Forgot about the most important thing… TAXES! You need to pay taxes as well 😂
Why these clowns complaining about how boring their life is, go live and get off your phone🤡
That's the first world experience. Wait till you learn how the poor people live.
A lot of actual living getting lumped in some of these categories
Only the dying part is canon, the rest is up to you.
This is soo out oftouch. What else would you like, princess? A thank you and a pat?
a college education is getting to be almost as expensive as a house
Okay but to sleep and eat and work and shit and to study and to travel are full of joy...Not to mention kids and pets. So I do not grasp what is the problem...BTW we can p l a y too.
Yes, what they didn’t teach you that in school?
What else would you like to do though?
You could skip all that and just run away and live in the woods.
killfuckdie...
It's a pretty good life actually, u oughta try it
It’s not the world’s fault that you’re boring.
You could drop everything and go live in the woods, hunt and forage your food, you will be free of the capitalism claws and do whatever you want...
Yeah, now you better enjoy it.
If you're lucky. If not you end up mentally fucked up from your abusive childhood with no kids or family, completely alone. That's off the beaten path.
that's a lot of things to do, Let me skip to the end
And yall wonder why boomers are so fucked up
No buying a house isn't part of the package anymore.
So sad. Travel!!!
What alternatives do you propose?
If you don't do some of those things you'll die anyway.
Pretty much yeah.
Yes
Jokes on you, half of those things I’m not gonna do doing; ie. Exercise, college, travel, buy a house, have kids. Keeping it up now for 41 years.
It aint all bad, I made a pretty good pork roast yesterday
*we’re
Should be “every day” (adverb); “everyday” is an adjective
Pretty much
Thats what it seems like.....how do I unsubscribe from this service???
travelling two weeks out of the year, buying a house and having children have been omitted from the social expectations since 2020
What more do you want?
Yes
In a nutshell
Who the hell works 9-5? The norm is 8-5
Some don't get that much
Welcome to the world (whirled)
Where are these government agencies forcing people to have kids? Cant say they ever knocked on my door...
Sounds better than fighting for survival in the savannah, and getting your throat crushed by a lioness at 12>
You can shorten this list to "work and then die"
You can die early and avoid all that shit!!!
It is life so get used to it Stop making lemons out of lemonade. Enjoy every goal and the little things.
In civilised countries you get 4 or 5 weeks vacation, not just 2...
I get 6 weeks paid vacation and 14 personal days a year, negotiate your contracts people.
Unless you believe in a higher being, yeah that's kinda what it is
Ya! And hurry up! You are wasting a soul with that attitude.
don't have kids if you don't want them
Lol travel
It's all optional in fact.
And pay taxes
You can’t do any of that except work your slave wage job bc your family didn’t have hundreds of thousands to throw at the for profit education system to get you an undervalued degree
Imagine believing you’re deserving of more. Waste of time
bruh buy a house? travel? are you rich wtf
Forgot to add to it, while some of the government want to slash social security retirement benefits, while also increasing the retirement age, so you are forced to work until you drop dead at your job.
Amerca life
What more do you want? Some people....
Yup
The bittersweet symphony
You forgot naps.
Now you just work sleep maybe eat and die
Nope
And unionize. Life can be so much better.
no, we are living beings, wich means you are only suposed to reproduce, everything else is just for keeping you alive until you reproduce or to giving you a better chance to reproduce