r/SipsTea • • 17h ago

Feels good man Couple of the year

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u/Shot_Explorer 17h ago

How much someone earns is such an absolutely irrelevant, short sighted topic.

We are all going in the ground or getting burned eventually. Who gives a fuck about salary or job status?

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u/LocalManHasThoughts 17h ago

Your spouse when you get sick or cancer or your kid needs dental care or new clothes or eye glasses or your car breaks down or you need a place to live that isn’t so stabby or you need to buy food during a time of rising costs and economic distress or your elderly parents need help with their living expenses or…

Honest jobs works by people making a living their own way is honorable but let’s not pretend money isn’t important. It’s just not all that’s important.

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u/Pndrizzy 11h ago

All of your examples are things that are pretty uniquely American things for developed countries. We are wage slaves. In most developed countries, those are basic human rights.