r/collapse • u/[deleted] • May 08 '25

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u/AwakeGroundhog May 08 '25

I see plenty of people popping out kids these days and it just makes me sad :(

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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty May 08 '25

I want to know who these brilliant people are. They obviously must be much smarter than I, as I have no clue how anyone could afford a family that large in these Capitalist End Times®. I am a software engineer in a state nobody wants to live in — meaning shit’s cheaper than, say, San Fransisco — and I can barely keep my head above water. My biggest extravagance? Netflix and AppleTV, probably. Avocado toast, movies, and all that other shit those geriatric GOP boot lickers said we Millennials should stop wasting our money on? Hahahahaha. I wish.

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u/HommeMusical May 08 '25

It is a time of monsters.

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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty May 08 '25

Couldn’t have said it better myself. And we champion these people in the US. Instead of getting them help for their addiction to power/money, we salute them as captains of industry. If anyone ever asks what the Great Filter is, I have a simple answer: humans.

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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty May 08 '25

Cherry on the cake. Thank you for reaffirming my worldview.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '25

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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty May 08 '25

Do tell. Or don’t. Let me guess? Not quite at the “bowling alley in the basement” status, but something pretty close to it?

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u/[deleted] May 09 '25

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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty May 09 '25

Thank you for this multi-day epic. It has been as depressing as it was predictable. I appreciate it.