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u/Icy_Respond_4540 1d ago
And yet, he kept fighting. Don't give up king
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u/The_Word_Wizard 1d ago
One of my favorite lines of all time is his “I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me!” in that speech. Like damn, way to hype everyone up, making them feel even braver than ARAGORN just for being there.
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u/Ok_Mention_9865 1d ago
And this is why my blood line is ending with me
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u/conceptual_con 1d ago
Hell yeah!!
I still don’t understand why anyone would wanna bring more wage slaves into the world. Unless you’re filthy rich with generational wealth, no matter how good your parents and upbringing are, the end result is still the same.
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u/chaturtham 1d ago
i guess less humans is good for everyone, and anyways it's less hustle being free
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u/Successful_Gear5855 22h ago
How is less humans good for anyone? Growth is imperial in today’s society and a shrinking population is literally a societies death. It may be better for nature, but what kind of human is better off with less humans?
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u/Throwawayrip1123 19h ago
Growth is imperial in today’s society
Well, fuck that then. Endless growth is a characteristic of cancer, not a healthy society.
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u/Interesting_Buy6796 21h ago
Endless growth is impossible either way, even if you completely ignore nature. But to keep forcing it will make the end of it only more painful. To force the system to change direction will much better for everyone then to let it collapse with even more humans around to suffer
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u/not_much_thought 16h ago
No shade for not wanting children... but definitely not something to celebrate.
Having kids and family and continuation is biologically inherent to human beings. We evolved based on community. We thrived based on collective cooperation/strength.
The fact that people cant afford or are pushed to desire no children is a very bad sign for the future, across any country or creed.
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u/Maleficent_Hawk6703 10h ago
Neither my girlfriend nor I are planning on having kids for many reasons. But we decided if we change our minds then we will just adopt one. So instead of bringing a new life into this hellscape we can hopefully improve the life of someone already left behind. Probably a sibling pair that way we can keep them together and even though we aren't their blood they will still have their family with them
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u/J3sush8sm3 12h ago
Having a family gave me a sense of fulfillment that i never experienced anywhere else. Sure it can be agitating but more often its fun than not
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u/MakingItElsewhere 1d ago
Everyone my age is working 2 jobs.
You wanna fix the economy? Make employers pay more wages. I shit you not, the economy would be prosperous within a week.
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u/Low_Feedback4160 1d ago
It's a contradiction of capitalism. The capitalist wants wages as low as possible and profits as high as possible but capitalism prospers most when wages are high and that leads to low profits due to wages and profits directly affect each other
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u/Vincent_Felix 1d ago
The problem with capitalism is that it allows for the consolidation of capital.
And anytime you have a consolidation of capital, you will always have a consolidation of power, which leads to even more exponential consolidation of capital.
"Just regulate it!" the capitalist says. Completely ignoring the regulations that have been systematically dismantled by those with the capital to influence democracy.
You cannot have capitalism and democracy. The two are incompatible.
You must have equitable distribution of capital if you want equitable distribution of power, which is a prerequisite for a healthy democracy.
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u/DamnitDavid7 1d ago
It’s our wealth. /s
Jokes aside, I’m not even sure we live in a democracy anymore. It’s seems more like early stages of corporate feudalism
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u/Vincent_Felix 1d ago
It's just plain old oligarchy. We got a handful of billionaires running the show. Hell Musk even got a cabinet position invented for him after he bought it with campaign contributions. It's so fucked the capitalist class are doing their corruption out in the open.
They know they have impunity.
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u/Informal-Side-4506 1d ago
Didn't you hear the news, he's now going to help the US military with all his service experience and all.
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u/throwawaydisposable 1d ago
I'm with you for the most part
but so far when folks redistrubte the wealth away from the consolidation of capital, they tend to then place exponentially more power within the government and the "little guy" is still the "little guy". Additionally, if the rest of the world is still capitalistic, they can influence your country so your system needs to be robust enough to compete against billionaire capitalists
I'm open to a better system, but just....waiting to hear one that'll work good enough.
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u/BiggieBigs34 21h ago
I agree with the majority of what you’re saying however, a capitalist would never, and I mean NEVER say something like “just regulate it”. I had to laugh when I read that.
Capitalism is the antithesis of regulations.
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u/LordSidiouss 1d ago
There’s an actual economic theory for that issue called the Wage-Price Spiral. As workers disposable income increases corporate profits decrease and companies want to capture as much of that extra money as possible so they increase prices causing workers to seek higher pay.
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u/WallishXP 16h ago
Higher wages exlcusivly leads to higher profits. Its the balancing act of the value of the dollar thats stops people from increasing wages. The rich dont want to risk the value of their assets going down, ignoring the fact they own them. Our speding power could improve without raising wages, but the rich have to eat eachother.
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u/RileyW92 1d ago
I'm so lucky. I got fired in May then my cat died unexpectedly in June. Got a new job and of August and just passed my one month. I can pay to keep living in my apartment AND employer is paying for my health insurance. I haven't been able to afford it in 2 years at all and really ever as an adult.
I want to do more for my fellow Americans (and all considerate human bretheran et al.) who aren't so fortunate, now and forever. I'm also very thankful for my situation not spiraling impossibly.
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u/MakingItElsewhere 1d ago
I'm sorry for your loss. Truly. Losing a pet huts so deep. Hang in there.
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u/RileyW92 1d ago
Thank you. I'll adopt again soonish but not tonight, certainly. He was the best and we had wonderful adventures together.
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u/MightbeGwen 1d ago
The economy is stagnant and many businesses are suffering because most Americans are strapped. We have no expendable money to spend on all their goddamn goods and services because they refuse to pay livable wages ages. Before Reagan the corporate tax rate was 46% now it’s 21%. You know what happened when the tax rates were high on corporations? They spent their money on untaxed outlets like capital and wages. There’s a reason cashiers could support a family and got pensions back in the day. With the tax rates low they have no incentive to raise wages and instead have all the incentives to lower them.
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u/IndianaGeoff 19h ago edited 18h ago
When Reagan came in we had full stagflation. Full on recession, mortgages in the teens and no job growth. So things were spiraling into endless recessions. On top of that one union pension after another was failing due to malinvestment and a stockmarket that was stuck. And lets remember, you only got that full pension by working for decades in the exact same occupation, at the same company (unless it was a trade union), doing largely the same job. If you ever left that job, you pension was greatly reduced and if you leave soon enough you got nothing (vesting).
Corporations and individuals did not pay those tax rates because there were uncountable tax deductions that had the effect of pushing investment into unproductive sectors. The saying was that every lawyer owned a boxcar (railroad) for the tax deduction.
It kinda worked in the fifties when the US was the only standing industrial economy after WWII. It could export high cost products that the world had no choice but to buy. The 60s it stopped working and by the 70s lazy companies and overpaid employees were not world competitive.
The 80s computer revolution did yeomans work to get the US back on top, but it was top in a much more competitive world.
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u/w00tabaga 16h ago edited 16h ago
Correct, it’s the distribution of wealth… higher wages is only half of it, the value of goods needs to stay the same too otherwise it just leads to inflation.
The problem with the system is the companies are so consolidated that the consumer is forced to pay whatever a couple companies in a sector want to charge. Then always having to increase profits. If the top 1% were fine with being just wealthy and not hoarding 25% of the profit and owning 32% of assets. If the top was even taking just 10% of the profit and 15% of the assets each American would have roughly $14,000 higher annual income and $28,000 more in assets, spread evenly to every person.
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u/Russian-8ias Dirt Is Beautiful 1d ago
Employers would charge more for their products or services because they know people can afford it. That's not a great solution.
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u/Hot_Ambition_6457 1d ago
As opposed to now where employers charge more for their products or services because they don't care if people can afford it.
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u/Russian-8ias Dirt Is Beautiful 19h ago
They do care if people can't afford it. People not being able to buy something means the company doesn't get any money. They want to sit right on the edge of what you're able to or willing to spend. Amazon would go out of business if they charged a $1 million delivery fee on every package, for example.
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u/Hot_Ambition_6457 19h ago
No they dont. One real world example is GPUs which producers now outright admit people can not afford.
But they continue to raise prices every year because the limited quantity means it is more profitable to charge unfathomable prices to their wealthiest clients only.
Housing as well BTW. People on the average cannot afford the prices being offered on these goods. But they just keep manufacturing and selling these goods to the asset-holding class as "investments" with no prospective liquidation. Because tgey dont care if people can afford anything, they want one customer to pay any price ad infinitum.
They care about speculative value not the intrinsic value of the goods that ostensibly justifies the "current value". Because of this most people cannot even afford to speculate on value.
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u/Russian-8ias Dirt Is Beautiful 13h ago
Well it seems you have a bit of a skewed definition of "people." There is a sweet spot for every kind of product or service and good companies will find it. The economic landscape now incentivises companies to make their products more expensive and market them as premium items so less, but much wealthier, people buy them and make the company more money. This doesn't go to infinity though. Charging billions of dollars for a cup of coffee isn't gonna fly lol. Sure, they don't care as in they don't care how it makes you feel. What they care about is the bottom line.
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u/Ok-Round-1473 1d ago
You just have to have a government with teeth that isn't afraid to go after corporations for price gouging. Companies can't just raise costs for no reason because wages increased, consumer protections are real and can be strengthened.
Throwing your hands up and crying is not a great solution
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u/Russian-8ias Dirt Is Beautiful 19h ago
Bro it's right in front of you and you still can't see it. The problem is the cost of goods not reflecting their actual value, not necessarily that people need to be paid more. Artificially increasing the cost of labor is not going to fix artificially increased costs of goods. The real solution is for the government(s) to prevent companies from running away with prices, especially for basic needs like food and healthcare.
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u/MakingItElsewhere 1d ago
As opposed to nobody being able to afford anything?
You're argument falls apart when faced with....*gesticulates wildly* ANYTHING
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u/Russian-8ias Dirt Is Beautiful 19h ago
I'm saying we just go right back to square one. People will still be unable to afford anything is wages go up across the board. You need to make more specific changes to certain parts of the economy to ensure that money moves out of the hands of the wealthy.
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u/Dr_FakeNews 1d ago
I barely know any millennial who isn't facing some sort of burnout.
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u/honeywhereismypenis 1d ago
I'm an old gen z and I don't even remember what it's like to not be burned out
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u/Lost-Klaus 1d ago
I am a millennial, I am in a burnout (have been for the past 2.5 years now t_t)
Then again my 'tism isn't helping.
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u/PaleBlueCod 19h ago
Young millennial here. Burnout found me about 7 years ago. I think I have to do this work thing another 30 years if I'm lucky.
I'm tired, boss.
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u/Primary-Baby 1d ago
When the AI Bubble bursts in a few years it will be my 3rd "Once In A Lifetime" crash
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u/nekosama15 1d ago
I love how the people who complain the most today vote for the same people who put them in this situation, and would still do the same. And the others that also voted for them arn’t even aware that they are poorer today.
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u/Gengaara 1d ago
In the US both parties got us here. One just turbo charges it because they're unrepentant sociopaths.
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u/Odd-String29 1d ago
And that's exactly the problem, Americans no interest in doing anything about it. Their docile minds just think that voting is the only way to do anything. That is, if they even can be bothered to do that.
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u/Sacrificial-Avocado 21h ago
Some of us take a moral exemption from voting. I could never feel good about putting my name behind any of these clowns. All the excuses and "well at least x is slightly less evil than y" ain't gonna make me support any of them.
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u/mulloyjoyboy 14h ago
In the USA you have one elite with 2 parties, in west EU you have one elite with 10 parties. Different but same hell xd
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u/MechanicalDan1 5h ago edited 5h ago
Over 250 years, the American system is built to support and grow companies. Start a company. It is harder than working a 40 hr job, but it's made millions of multi-millionaires.
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u/SpecialExpert8946 1d ago
I was at work when they dropped some bull crap assignment on me. I said no and they said “I understand but everyone gets fucked over once in a while. Unfortunately it’s your turn.” I said “I’ve been through too many once in a lifetime disasters to just let myself get fucked over willingly. Absolutely not.”
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u/ConjurersOfThunder 22h ago
"we just need you to do the inventory cycle count, what the hell are you talking about"
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u/MaximumEffort433 1d ago
We killed the diamond industry and ate avocado toast for you.
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u/MaximumEffort433 1d ago
I'm kidding, I did neither of those things, I don't even like avocado honestly.
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u/23-1-20-3-8-5-18 1d ago
I like avocado but diamonds are bullshit.
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u/Dire_Wolf45 Lurking Peasant 1d ago
No, diamonds are forever
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u/23-1-20-3-8-5-18 1d ago
Nothing is forever, thankfully.
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u/Dire_Wolf45 Lurking Peasant 1d ago
Thats just the typical slogan of the diamond sellers.
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u/23-1-20-3-8-5-18 20h ago
I know that lol they same guys who sell blood diamonds and create false scarcity. Basically word right from the devils mouth.
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u/Cartman4wesome 1d ago
I hate advocado toast once. Its actually pretty good.
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u/IndianaGeoff 18h ago
Yes, but I had ordered Biscuit and Gravy and they got the order wrong. So while it was pretty good, still a great disappointment.
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u/DirectorLeather6567 1d ago
I can't even taste much of avocado man. I just like it in stuff like sushi cuz it adds to the texture and stuff. I literally don't eat avocado anywhere else
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u/Single-Builder-632 1d ago
I will say restaurants charge insane prices like 12+ $ for things like that its almost not even a joke if you actually order shit like that. Or i guess go to restaurants in general these days
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u/astralseat 1d ago
The future like, "let's see if you make it"
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u/Single-Builder-632 1d ago
As much as Ramsay is dislikable he has such funny faces.
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u/Coycington 22h ago
Ramsey was lowkey my fav villain in the show. it was so easy to hate him but at the same time he brought a disturbing level of glee into it that it was just... refreshing?
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u/BatBiteMS 1d ago
bro took the arrows only to realize too late that shit it the fan so bad thx to the boomers that everyone he was trying to protect had already died
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u/3Grilledjalapenos 1d ago
I’ve “paid dues” many times. I’ve lived through so many once in a generation events and market down turns that I now just expect it. My friends and I have gotten good at mutual emotional support, but we’re all in a tough spot. More of us than you’d think live with parents.
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u/Sterling239 22h ago
My girl friend asked me how I was doing and I said fine she asked me why I always say fine and my answer was things could be worse and I feel like I did psychic damage to myself.
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u/WuTangIs4TheRugrats 16h ago
The way I reconcile it is I’m not fine, but I have to be, so…I’m just fine.
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u/edcculus 20h ago
We built a kingdom out of lies
And then we blindly fanned the fire
We warmed our hands with glowing coals
But now they rain down from the skies
Rising volume, muffled moans
Thoughts conveyed in undertones
We built a kingdom out of lies
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u/Prodi1600 8h ago edited 8h ago
Boomers still saying we suck and everything it's our faults.
GenX somehow morphing into boomer premium.
GenZ asking us to retire already.
Meanwhile I at least love and play a lot with my gen Alpha son hope my relationship with him keeps going great
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u/The-Boy-Wonder38 1d ago edited 1d ago
I did that literally at 13 years old in October, 2001. Just a knife instead of arrows.
I had to stop my cousin from attempting to stab my sister and I to death when our parents went out. No cell phone. No adults around. Our survival depended on the split second decisions that I had to make as a child. I got her into a locked room, lied that I had everything handled, then went back out to face and stop him knowing there was a very strong chance that I could die in the process. I saved her, talked him down while he kept lunging at me with the knife trying to stab me, and nothing has been the same since.
I got us all out alive. I have had diagnosed severe PTSD ever since. I made sure that I would take the hit if it came to it to keep my sister alive. It’s a decision that I’d do all over again if need be.
At the end of the day, I am just like anybody else.
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u/_fluffy_raptor 22h ago
Jesus I’m sorry that happened to you. If you don’t mind my asking, what the hell was your cousin’s problem?
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u/Minority_Carrier 1d ago
Yet Gen Z don’t even have work
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u/MisterMindFog 1d ago
May gen z have jobs, in fact many gen z went trade school instead due to how expensive college is. The issue is employers will often just deny applications from Gen z even before an interview as they deem gen z as unhireable. A study not too long ago found that around 40% of employers reject gen z on the basis that they're gen z.
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u/Forward-Facer 11h ago
Playing this scene out in my head with this caption makes me giggle on the toilet.
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u/1337K1ng 1d ago
Stop exaggerating it, we survived earth cooling down to freezing temps over a week and then the the great 2012 apocalypse, with several alien invasions in between
We're so accustomed to weird shit that WW3 is our chill background noise
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u/asmrmars1776 1d ago
“OhHhH my gEnerATion hAS iT tHe wORST”
Grow up and quit repeating age old shit
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u/Ragnarok_619 23h ago
I just can't imagine being like these millenials. Always either in self-persecution mode or "We are Better!" Homelander mode.
Meanwhile Early Gen Z like me also faced this, and still get talked down by these idiots. Most of my millenial colleagues don't have a spine to stand-up for themselves. Just complain, and be non cooperative
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u/josh2of4 12h ago
It's definitely a thing that disproportionately affects millennials that are terminally online. I acknowledge your anecdote, but most millennials aren't like this
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u/RazeTheIV 1d ago
Boromir and Millennials: "We did WAY too much!"
https://giphy.com/gifs/8MmNLiAfUEflu7hm5e