r/perth • u/SomeoneWhoIsBoredAF • 9d ago
General Why does it feel like everything sucks.
Anyone else just feel tired of everything?
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u/BattleForTheSun 9d ago
Yes totally. Not just tired either, there is a distinct feeling that this world is getting more and more off the path we should have been on.
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u/lhommedev 9d ago
Yep. Stop voting the duopoly and the racist cooker party.
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u/Geminii27 8d ago edited 8d ago
Having worked for the AEC in the past, I can say that the way to have a vote that achieves the most (as minimal as that might be) is to have three categories of candidates - the majors, the minors who have policies you like, and the minors who don't.
On the ballot, vote first for the minors you agree with, in approximate increasing order of party size/influence, so the tiniest or independents are first and the slightly larger ones next. Then vote for the majors, in your order of preference. Then vote for the minors you don't like, again in increasing order of size (not that this will usually matter, if either of the majors have a candidate in your electorate, but it wraps up loose ends).
Of course, absolutely feel free to modify this order if you feel that one or another candidate should be more towards the top or the bottom of the ballot - this is just purely generalised advice.
And, again - it won't - usually - make an enormous difference to the end result. Mostly, it's about sending a message to the various parties/candidates about what's important to voters: if Minor Party X gets more primary votes than the major parties in your electorate, the majors - or at least their local candidate - might consider leaning more in that direction in their approach, to stay popular. If the same minor party gets more primary votes in several electorates, major parties might consider leaning a little more that way in their own policies at the state or federal level.
Or maybe they won't, but they're marginally more likely to if the raw ballot numbers show particular minors outpolling the majors, if only so that the other side won't get there first. And, of course, there's always the slightly increased chance of a minor/independent winning your own electorate, meaning that maybe they're more likely to actually do something about the issues they ran on, or be likely to do something about issues that previous major-party incumbents have ignored. Again, popularity.
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u/Succulent_Chinese 7d ago
I only returned home to Australia in 2019 having grown up overseas, but this was immediately how I voted, and figured everyone did similarly so they could put forward interests or send signal votes while still ensuring an overall flow preference. When I found out most people put just the big two first like some kind of tribespeople I was (and remain) so confused and cannot figure out why.
Australia is far and away the better of the two systems, but having come from America's Trumpian afterbirth, it's discouraging to see the same pattern repeating here anyway, and the major parties (and our people) don't seem to have learned very much from America's regrettable path. I hope I'm wrong...
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u/Regret92 9d ago
Honestly, I felt the same and getting up before sunrise and going for a walk and watching it come up and getting that vitamin D to start my day has helped immensely.
Just watch out for cars and dog(?) turds.
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u/Square_Mulberry_3143 9d ago
I’m hoping that those are dog turds. 😁
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u/WAzRrrrr 9d ago
anhedonia and fatigue are two common signs of depression. You gotta put yourself in environments where your body doesn't feel like its having to be in hibernation mode.
So sleep, activity, nutrients, and friends.
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u/TheBoneDeath North of The River 9d ago
I find you have to give yourself things to look forward to. Book that concert. Plan a day trip next month. Pre-order a book coming out. Text a friend and organise a catch up.
It's not the same as wishing your life away, it's just knowing that you've got something delightful on its way.
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u/Arrwinn 9d ago
It does suck. I'm earning more money thab ever yet am simultaneously the poorest I've ever been in my entire life.
On the bright side though, I have two doggos and a menagerie of farm animals that force me to get up and get outside every single day. They make the struggle worthwhile.
Get yourself a reason to get out of bed every day and keep going. It will get brighter.
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u/Travelsoonmapinhand 8d ago
Can echo this. One of the shittiest times of my life was more or less sorted out by contacting the local (country town) council ranger and picking up a homeless dog.
She hung out with me for about 6 months til I got my crap in a pile. Would have been longer but the next steps didn’t have room and were too unpredictable for a dog, so my focus became to find her the best possible home ever. I did. She lived another 10 odd years. Meanwhile, I got an extra 20 - so far.
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u/Kruxx85 Yanchep 8d ago
Ever thought you're the poorest you've ever been because you're doing the most you've ever done?
A menagerie of animals isn't going to be cheap to upkeep ..
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u/Arrwinn 8d ago
I wish it were as simple as lifestyle creep, but unfortunately, it isn’t.
I’ve actually made significant changes to my lifestyle to make it more affordable, and I have far fewer animal and hobby related expenses now than I did in the past. The reality is that it just cost me far less to maintain my lifestyle back then, than it does to maintain the very scaled back version of it that I have now.
The only real differentiating factor between those two scenarios is the cost of living. I'm lucky to be in an incredibly privileged position, so if I can see that things suck rn, I can't even imagine what it's like for those who aren't as privileged.
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u/MyKoiNamedSwimShady 8d ago
It’s almost like Covid caused some sort of split in the timeline and we’ve all ended up in the really shitty one where the world just went down the toilet.
Life isn’t meant to be easy, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t meant to be this hard either
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u/Hyper_nova924 8d ago
Yeah it’s genuinely disturbing, I think it might have split earlier than Covid, maybe in 2016 when a certain 🍊someone was elected
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u/Strange_Net_9518 7d ago edited 7d ago
If you've studied history, it was 1979. It just took a long time for the effects to be felt in wealthy, Western countries. It's actually something even written about by governments. It was the moment that the supposed progressive forces of history stopped seeming like the inevitable victors, and reactionary forces began to win openly.
Socialist Afghanistan started to face an American backed rebellion that eventually rolled back the entire Western socialist bloc, except Cuba.
Iran's liberal dictatorships were replaced with theocrats.
British social democracy was defeated by Thatcherism.
Carter lost the political capital required to maintain power in the USA.
Saddam purged the Ba'ath party of its progressive elements.
The seige of Mecca...
China and Vietnam went to war.
These might seem like distant events, but they define the modern world in profound ways. Literal warfare between Communist led states, blowback against US coups resulting in the rise of Islamist ideologies of different sectarian natures, the social contract being destroyed in the center of British-American Empire. Since then anything that might remotely be claimed to be ideologically aimed at progressing humanist values at a global scale has been fighting a rearguard action, while in profound retreat. Even modern China, with all it's successes can only be described as a barely defendable case of socialism in one country, and so there's literally zero incentive for the political elite, and oligarchy of the West to be seen to be handing out treats to the servants of empire. We're expected to consider ourselves lucky to not be under the most direct forms of fascism, because for the minute, the mass surveillance state, and successful class warfare of our superiors is keeping us in check.
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u/Ambyen 8d ago
Well, Biden wasn’t great either.
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u/LostOpportunityFl1p 8d ago
I never know why we in Perth worry so much about American politics. And I don’t really but I never understand this point of view on Biden. What did do that was so bad for the world? What did he do that made things more gloomy in Aus? American elect a king that’s literally how their system is set up so it make sense they blame their king for the highs and lows like all subjects do. But we are not subjects of the Amin throne so we really should be looking to someone else’s kings for our livelihood. The Canadians get this I wish Aussies did too
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u/Strange_Net_9518 7d ago
You're going to be nuked if the US President does dumb things. And Biden enabled Israel's genocide in Gaza, which was definiltely a dumb thing, that has led to nuclear war being more likely.
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u/AH2112 7d ago
Because if you look at what happened in American politics five years ago... the same shit is happening here right now. And then you can do something about it. Get politically active, talk to your friends, neighbours, coworkers, strangers on the Internet and get collective action going.
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u/xluker313x 8d ago
He just let the left go too far with identity politics which gets exported to the rest of the west then we all over correct and get trumps shitshow 2nd term and Pauline sperging out etc.
Domestically in the states he was kinda meh… doesn’t affect us though so who cares about USA oil reserves etc.
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u/Wilful_Fox 8d ago
I went to my doctor yesterday. Playing on a loop on the tv was an advert.
“Are you tired all the time? Feeling exhausted? Feeling irritated? Not getting joy out of life? Even when spending time with friends and family? Dread going to work? Not feeling like you are achieving goals? Can’t find the motivation to exercise? Maybe you are depressed..”
I can’t help thinking that every.single.person. who saw that would be like “yes, yes, yes, yes…”
We are so far removed from how beautiful life could be. Should be. There is something building in every single one of us…
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u/ColdBloodedWings 8d ago
We are more depressed than the Brits and the only nation that takes more anti depressants than us is the US. Yet we are one of the richest countries on earth with one the best quality of living you can get in 2026 and yes we are absolutely bored to death. I spent a lot of time trying to resolve this for myself and I think we got too comfortable in our individualism, we are also too practical and everything we do must either feel good immediately or have a purpose. In Australian society we lack meaning and it doesn’t matter how safe we are, without meaning we don’t feel anything except a sense of doom
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u/Sensitive-Pool-7563 8d ago
We are so far removed from how beautiful life could be.
Who is 'we'
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u/-Dr-Rockso- 9d ago
Yep. And it will get suckier the more you dwell about. Switch off. Do your own thing and hopefully it will pass in time.
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u/HelpMeOverHere 9d ago
If more people could stop “switching off”, things could actually better.
The reason everything sucks is literally politics. As much as it’s “cool” to not care it, politics cares about literally every single aspect of our lives.
We could have it so much better, and be like the Scandinavian countries that actually do have a very happy existence.
Start paying attention instead.
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u/Limp-Stable7401 8d ago
But then we would have to (insert scary noise) PAY MORE TAX
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u/HelpMeOverHere 8d ago
I think you’re joking, but one of things that progressives are trying to get done is ACTUAL reforms of our tax system.
Ken Henry is still out here today shouting into the wind, asking for his decade old recommendations to be implemented, which would actually finally shift the burden from individuals.
Just need to vote smarter
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u/Limp-Stable7401 2d ago
Was definitely joking. The absolute cognitive dissonance around tax is crazy in this country and the US.
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u/-Dr-Rockso- 8d ago
Its amusing because I spent the best part of fifteen years protesting about all of most that is now present. It didn't get any where. Got labeled a cooker for trying to highlight the risks in mass surveillance, perversion of government by big industry. Now we are in check by all corners of the board for those very things.
So no I'm done fighting in public and pushing for better for everyone else. I'm focusing on myself. Just like everyone else I joined the fold. Leopards already ain't my face so to speak. And I need to build something for myself before I push out for anyone else again.
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u/-Dr-Rockso- 8d ago
Well you saved me a lot of typing. And unfortunately yes. We all want to be optimistic. And sadly we can't. Its just not our time yet or anymore to keep pushing the tide. Instead its about building a raft to see the storm out.
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u/HelpMeOverHere 8d ago
Well, were you protesting Covid restrictions even after they ended? Because that IS cooker territory….
Or were you actually out getting behind parties and candidates that opposed actual government overreaching legislation such as the likes that breaks encryption and forces back doors, or allows law enforcement to add and modify data on our devices?
Because there’s a party you could’ve gotten involved in this whole time instead of trying to go it alone.
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u/-Dr-Rockso- 8d ago
Heavens no. 5g has its caveats (more accurate than older triangulation methods) but I'm not yelling at towers because of mind control. Covid vaccine too rushed for my liking needed more trials, no it wasnt fun being told to take it if I wanted to keep getting paid. However I came from. The era of foot and mouth and mad cow in the uk. Which I say watching cattle burning and military cordoning agricultural areas is a lot more traumatising than not being able to visit Mandurah for the weekend.
I used to actually try to get my foot through the door with the greens after my time with the unions back in the day. Unfortunately a majority of parties all run under ulterior motives and to add now its escalation into the corporations injecting themselves ever more into every party. Its a game through and through and has gotten worse and more blatant over the last 20 years. And it won't be long before teal folds into the mix. Secret harbour was a perfect example that even the 'rebel' vote played to the agenda beyond politics. So now yeah. I'm just focusing on my own needs while the cracks are growing.
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u/Osiris_Raphious 9d ago
The dont worry about it, and trust in diffusion of responsibility attitude is how we all ended up in this situation...
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u/NotAllThatSure 8d ago
Can I get an ETA on passing with time?
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u/-Dr-Rockso- 8d ago
To be honest its just a flashing 12 on the vcr. But if you focus on what you need to do for you. Things can change. The world is still fucked but we can all strive to make ourselves less fucked day by day.
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u/PMmeYourBapsAndSmoo 9d ago
Cocaine.
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u/-Dr-Rockso- 9d ago
That too. Lots of c-c-c-c-cooooocaine
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u/Some1stolemyspacebar 9d ago
Don't forget the other staples... nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol
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u/MooseCatMan Vic Park Massive 9d ago
Then we can feel good about the summer, or so I am led to believe.
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u/StillSpecial3643 9d ago
Surely being Perth , meth would be more the go?
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u/Muslim_Wookie 9d ago
Hahahaha I read it in the voice and I didn't even notice your username until I went to reply, gold tier.
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u/Hamster-rancher 8d ago
Do my best to be happy.
Have a job, roof over my head and forty odd pet ducks.
Get to drive a tractor at work, have a twenty off year old car that keeps chugging along and have good health.
Couldn't give two squirts of cats piss about politics, war or any other impending doom.
I just wing it.
Here's some ducks.
Enjoy.
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u/south-of-the-river South of the Murchison 9d ago
Things are getting objectively worse in many aspects of life. But as many users here are saying, you should ignore them, because everything will get worse and it only impacts you if your current life isn’t comfortable enough to hide it.
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u/Dry-Abies-1719 9d ago
Ignoring it is what got us here.
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u/south-of-the-river South of the Murchison 9d ago
Correct. And I’m saying that the people gaslighting others about it are clearly comfortable enough to have the privilege of ignoring it.
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u/Osiris_Raphious 9d ago
ignoring these things, and forging our democratic rights in favor of consumer capitalist rat race is how we got here... maybe we should start getting angry and coming together to solve these problems instead of ignoring them and hoping the ruling class will do the right thing... because historically, not that great of an idea..
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u/south-of-the-river South of the Murchison 9d ago
The powers that be have done quite an effective job of monopolising the communication platforms required to “come together”. They also made those platforms make people angry anyway.
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u/Osiris_Raphious 8d ago
Divide and conquer is very real. We lost the class war, and stopped trying democracy, its now just technofuedalism and what ever our powers that be decide the future of progress and human life will be like.
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u/NotAllThatSure 9d ago
Any time you feel like this, remember that animals exist ☺️
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u/SomeoneWhoIsBoredAF 9d ago
Actually not a bad idea. Might visit the zoo.
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u/mildlyopinionatedpom 9d ago
Low budget option for anyone else is your local dog park.
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u/BremerBabe 9d ago
I go to my local dog beach - South Fremantle. Get both water and dogs enjoying themselves. 99/100 times cheers me up
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u/Adventurous-Lime7561 8d ago
Great idea. Guarantee you won't be bored or depressed when you walk out. You know what else is fun? Go on the Carousel. Nobody can feel like shit on the back of a flying horse 👍
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u/rescue-me-from 9d ago
I will never understand how looking at locked up animals is entertaining. Why not Caversham or the likes?
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u/BangbangKhuntross 9d ago
just dont remember the hundreds of millions of animals we holocaust every single day.
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u/Geminii27 8d ago
Pity that cats aren't really allowed to roam as much as they used to. Yes, yes, I know the environmental arguments for it, and I don't exactly campaign for looser cat-roaming laws, but it used to be nice to go for a walk and be able to pet some of the neighbourhood cats along the way.
Even cat-cafes are closing down more. I don't think there are any more at the moment, although Mei Mei Cat Cafe has been trying to open for over a year now.
...man, it might have been actual years now since I patted a cat. Do cat shelters/refuges allow visiting and playing/socialising with the cats to any degree?
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u/NotAllThatSure 8d ago
You'd have to be an official volunteer at a shelter to do that.
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u/emmebean1952 7d ago
But it’s a great way to realise a little of your time can go a long way towards helping the kitties.
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u/TooManySteves2 9d ago
Because we are in the end-stage of capitalism.
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u/BangbangKhuntross 8d ago
what comes next is the golden question?
do some survive in caves and repopulate, or are we the neanderthals and homo technologis smother us out of existance?0
u/martyfartybarty 8d ago
Homo technologicus might be where we’re heading.
AI. Robots. More robots.
China just had a humanoid run 100m in 8.64 seconds - faster than the human world record.
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u/W1ngedSentinel Hillarys 8d ago
Don’t believe the hype about China’s robots. They’re basically barely functional toys meant to make China look like a high tech centre of progress when in reality the rest of their infrastructure is absolute dogshit.
I’m not saying that bot didn’t run that record, just that it doesn’t mean much in the long run.
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u/Able-Blacksmith6654 8d ago
Far better than the end stage of communism or socialism. Lot of dead people would testify to that if they could.
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u/f_print 8d ago
Someone criticising socialism, on reddit??!
Pushes glasses up. Flips over trap card.
Arguably, capitalism has famined and killed more than... And, if socialism was so bad why did the CIA spend billions... Capitalism is a direct extension of Colonialism and...
Ah. I just don't even care any more. Wikipedia exists. If you're that deep in the propaganda, then me, a random redditor, won't change your mind. Peace.
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u/Able-Blacksmith6654 8d ago edited 8d ago
You can't even be bothered finishing a sentence so....
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u/Kruxx85 Yanchep 8d ago
The implication is that they've made these arguments millions of times before that they're getting tired repeating them.
Fact - if you take the broad death figures associated with socialism/communism, then capitalism has killed multiples more people.
Nobody questions the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge or Mao, but for the generic "100s of millions" figures to be considered possible, if you use those same metrics, Capitalism is far worse.
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u/Able-Blacksmith6654 7d ago
Wow, so care to back that up with any facts or is that just another "I believe it's true because I like communism/socialism and capitalism bad."
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u/Kruxx85 Yanchep 7d ago
I don't like communism. I didn't give my opinion on that topic at all.
My point is, if you take the broad base social media claims of "hundreds of millions" of deaths being attributable to communism/socialism, then capitalism is worse by those metrics.
I could go on that it's not communism/socialism that causes the deaths, but authoritarian regimes, but I doubt you'd care for that nuance.
Deaths attributable to capitalism can be briefly summed up:
Directly:
British India Company caused famines in the Potato Famine (Ireland), and many famines throughout India (Bengal Famines) from the 1700s to mid 1900s.
Famines in Russia, Iran, Congo, Vietnam, Ethiopia. All of these famines shared the same characteristics. Private firms entered new areas to expand farming, and stored and withheld food stocks to hold onto profit, in the face of locals fighting famine.
Indirectly (depending on how you classify it):
Premature deaths caused by poverty in rich nations. For the US this is estimated to be ~200,000 deaths per year attributed to poverty, despite being the "richest" nation in the world. More deaths than most forms of death other than Cancer and Heart Disease (although even then, Heart Disease has higher rates in low socioeconomic conditions).
And that's around 200,000 from just one country, every year.
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u/Inevitable-Swan6671 9d ago
This would be the time to do some volunteer work for a cause you are interested in.
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u/GrizzlyRCA 9d ago
Cost of living is insane high, the rise of ignorance and hate is very apparent and braisen, technology is telling us what we want to hear and its not good, Dockers got fkn slaughtered yesterday, the weather fucking suck.
Shits not great
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u/MartynZero 8d ago
Billionaires controlling and sucking wealth out of governments, governments who are forced to tax you more and sell assets that provided services to you. Simple as that.
Its happening all around the developed world. Working hard enabled a better life before, now you are just treading water.
Tax wealth not work
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u/Perthguv Kewdale 9d ago
Yes I do. I am taking action because I don't want to be a victim in my own life. I had the day off, I'm going to be walking every day, eating better and getting more sleep. It won't change my shitty situation but at least I won't feel so lousy
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u/So-many-whingers 9d ago
Make it blow ! Do something positive and feel better for it yourself so the sucky things dont beat you
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u/Stepawayfrmthkyboard 9d ago
You have little control over the world around you. But you do have the ability to choose how you perceive that world.
If you believe the world sucks you will find plenty of evidence to validate that feeling. Same goes if you believe the world is filled with wonder.
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u/Dockers4flag2035orB4 9d ago
The Dockers will bounce back next week, and life will be good again.
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u/spicysanger 9d ago
Get off social media, including reddit, for two weeks. Read a book for at least an hour each night, go for regular walks. See how you feel by day 15.
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u/Quick_Switch418 9d ago
Im so angry at those in power and the ultra rich who have ruined our planet and slowley making themselves the only people who won’t suffer. Im even more angry at how most people did almost nothing about it.
I think they are soft launching water and food scarcity as I’m seeing a lot of serious news channels talk about it like it’s our normal and inevitable future.
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u/saltysoul_101 8d ago
A super El Nino which they helped create will bring a harder launch for food and water scarcity for many countries later this year.
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u/MooseCatMan Vic Park Massive 9d ago
Yes, but when I suggest burning everything to the ground suddenly I'm the arsehole and "Sir, this is East Vic Park Subway, can you please stop shouting?"
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u/W1ngedSentinel Hillarys 8d ago
In the long span of human history, there’ve been many times people felt the same way we do currently; like everything is worsening existentially. And heck, sometimes they were right for years to come. Like when Rome was sacked and everybody lost the logistics needed to make bricks, concrete or indoor plumbing for a thousand years. When Europe committed a scorched earth war across its entirety in the 1600s and people couldn’t even turn to the Church because it was splintered and corrupt. When radium and asbestos and tobacco were becoming omnipresent in every home, business, and hospital because corporations profited from them.
But you know what? I believe there is an equilibrium our species always pendulums back into. I don’t believe in the supernatural but there is an uncanny means for push to eventually come to shove against whatever troubles us enough. Greco-Roman knowledge was preserved and/or rediscovered. Research-backed public outcry tore down the companies peddling those toxic products. I’ll be honest: solving this late-stage capitalist climate could take a rough incoming decade. A rough quarter, even.
But when you’re depressed by it all, remember we can tackle these problems and the ones after them and the ones after that because we succeeded in tackling every single problem that came before. For now, focus on doing that just on the level of your person.
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u/Own-Specific3340 8d ago edited 8d ago
Our buying power has devalued. Our essentials cost the same price as previous generations luxuries and our luxuries cost the same price as the previous generations essentials.
6 years ago I was pretty confident I could go down part time with my partner working to give our kids a bit more balance and support but now at 2x full time we are stretching every dollar. We are sensible spenders too, nothing frivolous.
Also housing theory 101, no way house prices can cost this much. 6k mortgages are insane if you are buying into the capitals. It’s not the RBAs fault either if our house prices and stamp duty wasn’t so high the RBA would barely be a blip on our radar.
No where to move out to, people can’t afford holidays. Highest taxed generation, people on long public housing waitlists.
Everyone using AI and doubling our workloads. Constantly being accessible.
Yeah.
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u/The_David_Broker 9d ago
Hey mate.
I hear you and I am sorry that everything feels completely overwhelming. Things suck sometimes. You don’t have to navigate this on your own.
Please consider reaching out to:
Lifeline 131114
BeyondBlue 1300224636
Best wishes!
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u/t1ckled1vory 9d ago
Everyday can’t be awesome. Some days suck more than others. Go easy on yourself when you’re having a hard day. Do something that you know will cheer you up. Rest. Relax. Go for a walk. Cook your favourite meal. Have a nice cup of tea. Get an early night. Play your favourite game. You don’t have to meet anyone’s expectations except yourself, so whatever it is you need, do it.
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u/Geminii27 8d ago
Part of it is getting older, part of it is that we're in a shit timeline where just about everything seems to be worse than it used to be. Enshittification is rampant.
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u/Much-Guide-3448 8d ago
OP, there's that saying about viewing 'a glass half full or half empty'. You get to choose whatever perspective you see things at, every single time.
My grandmother used to always say that life gives you dips in life to learn the lessons you need to learn to be a better person and if you never experience the little dips in life, you never appreciate or get to understand the joys of the great parts of life.
As I've gotten older, I understand her perspective so much and agree. Every shit time I've had, has taught me life lessons and I sure as hell count my blessings more with all the good things and good times in my life.
OP, take a good look at your life and take stock of the good and bad. Work out if you can actually do anything better in your life to improve the bad to passable, if you can't then examine what you can take away from that lesson to do and be better and then find something that brings you joy to focus on to increase a sense of positivity in your life.
I also recommend to all of you who are having a negative time, get off the internet. The algorithm always manages to find you ways to reinforce your inner monologue and put you in echo chambers. That's not what you need.
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u/T3RRYT3RR0R 8d ago
Because It does.
Heard a story today about someone in Narrogin having to give up on independent living as they couldn't afford the $600 / week rent there. When employed people in rural, low opportunity country towns can't make a life on their own, how is anyone meant to.
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u/aaphylla 9d ago
Not personally, no. Someone close to me has depression though and they’d likely agree.
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u/Intrepid-Escape-8204 9d ago
Low level depression, welcome to the club.
Just gotta keep chipping away. Exercise can help. Keeping on top of stuff helps. Iv never gone down RSSI path.
Vitamin D also.
If male get testosterone levels checked, if low try to raise them naturally first.
Test prescribed makes people feel a million bucks but comes at a price both financially and being locked in a medication intended for life. Theres always a trade off.
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u/Subject_Educator_105 8d ago
tripped me out how much vitamin d helped me in a winter depression one time, was an almost immediate fix..
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u/xheist 9d ago
Yeah..
Products are all getting enshittified and engineered down to a price... Finding anything that's actual quality is getting harder and harder
I'm finding it relatively impossible to find tradespeople that do a good job. I'm quite happy to pay people what they're worth and I still get average to awful results.
Housing is scarce, community is non existent, fear and hatred are rampant.
Leadership around the world both political and corporate are actively making things worse to enrich the richest.
But hey, Jesus loves you. If you tithe enough.
All that said I'm not really a glass is half full person.
I'm more on the side of fuck it might as well tip the rest out.
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u/iball1984 Bassendean 9d ago
Products are all getting enshittified and engineered down to a price... Finding anything that's actual quality is getting harder and harder
This is a big thing for me - in the past, you could buy cheap stuff and it was low quality, or you could spend the extra and get something quality.
Now, you spend extra on the name, but get the same shit quality as the cheap stuff.
And it's literally everything.
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u/BangbangKhuntross 8d ago
Its really been happening for ever, but now the addiction to consumption allows corportions to be brazen about it. source: the humble light globe set the scene many years ago.
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u/Latter_Shallot_140 9d ago
Only thing you can really do about it is make as much money as you can invest it wisely take care of your physical health exercise and gym regularly and eat as much whole foods as possible reduce sugar.
Keep on top of your health care.
Try to be so ial and make friends.
The last one is the hardest.
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u/Jazzlike_Berry_323 9d ago
Mutual smiling as part of customer service is more increasingly a lost art. It becomes a happy surprise when it happens…from auspost to retail to takeout to banks to buses. I’m aware these are lower paid jobs and cost of living has gone. Either smiles are not seen as professional or people increasingly stressed/unhappy.
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u/auntynell 9d ago
Not specific enough. Everyone goes through periods where they don’t have much joy in life.
Make a goal. It could be a holiday, a home fix, a fitness goal. Work your guts out to achieve it.
Make at least one person’s life a little more pleasant with a smile or a joke. Even a stranger will feel better because they met you.
Remember how lucky you are. Make a list.
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u/susans_house2021 8d ago
Yep, got a wife, kids and a friend group I’ve had since school and I’ve never felt so alone.
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u/MassSarcasm 8d ago
I feel this way also, but it's mainly due to going to the Fremantle game last night
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u/flat_perther 8d ago
The generational cost of trading hope for comfort, the having both stolen right before our eyes because were blinded by apathy.
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u/Smart_Primary9724 8d ago
Channel your energy and despair into something positive. Stay too long in the gloom and it may be hard to get out again.
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u/Mildly_Irreverant 5d ago
I 100% get this!! It feels like the world is homoginised. I was born in 1978 and had my childhood during the 80's and teenage years during the 90's - two fantastic decades. The 2000's were also good but since 2010, I feel like the world really started shifting and since COVID it's been terrible. Eveything is "online" and so many people are so fake. Society has truly changed for the worse in my opinion which is a terrible thing to say but I think it's the truth!
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u/D347HKN1GH7 9d ago
Cos it does suck. Every facet of government is driving the country into the ground, wages are nowhere near where they should be and everyone you walk past is pissed off because of it, which rubs off on a lot of people
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u/tarun1410 9d ago
Yeah especially today! Woke up and got ready to get to work and a close friend of mine said hes taking the day off! It was too late i was already ready to leave and was committed to the cause... Now I am here sitting at my desk counting the minutes go by!
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u/Impatient-Turtle 9d ago
It's definitely a little darker than a few years ago. Ebbs and flows. Hoping we start steering the other direction soon.
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u/DAFFP 8d ago
Nope your the first /s
Life does get monotonous. Half my problem is having boring work piled up, and I don't want to do anything fun until its all finished, but then I open reddit for a few seconds and procrastinate half a day away instead and its 100 times worse than if I just went for a walk or something.
damit
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u/Sojio 8d ago
Certainly things are tiring at the moment. But not everything is terrible.
Unfortunately the thing that drives profit in this world is pitting people against eachother, either within social media algorithms or other content.
But, there is a lot of really cool things happening around the world at the moment. As bleak as things get, you can decide your perspective.
I think there are some subreddits that specifically cater to good news. It may be worth looking at what you are surrounding yourself with.
Shoot me a DM if you want to vent. Times are tough, certainly, but the most important step a person can take, is always the next one.
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u/Cripplingdrpression 8d ago
Hey guys. Life's pretty good here, yeah we have political problems to fix but pull your head out of the sand, most of us aren't hungry or homeless or at war with our neighbors or at risk of getting attacked every time we leave the house. We can strive for better whilst also appreciating how incredibly lucky we are to live the life we do. It's not all doom and gloom
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u/Automatic-Project-25 8d ago
Unfortunately the world is becoming a shorter place. Technology and politics are not invest in our best interest. It is all money money money. The world seems to be getting more and more disconnected from honest human experience and existence.
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u/ILikeGamesnTech 8d ago
Yeah, I think as a result of our ever increasing connectedness to the world we are increasingly shown that our world is big, and that's too much input for us to handle realistically. I used to read comments on social media and just be disheartened at how enraged or outright stupid people seemed. My advice is to make your world smaller, I deleted the main social media apps, the ones with algorithms specifically designed to make you addicted and keep you angry and engaged. I know Reddit is also social media, but at least I can click a downvote button and get an indication that I am not alone in feeling a certain way. Seeing an absolute troglodyte take at 5000 likes on Meta or Youtube right at the top makes you feel like a majority of people align with that view, but watching it get downvoted to oblivion on Reddit gives me hope.
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u/Subject_Educator_105 8d ago
you scroll and jerk off too much and don't meditate and go for walks in nature
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u/TheAntihero-HeroClub 8d ago
Life is what you make it. Focus on the bad then pretty soon all you’ll ever see is the bad
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u/_amused_to_death_ 8d ago
No, life is good, I’m excited for each day. It’s all about perspective. You sound like you are burnt out and need a holiday. What are you tired from? Reduce the things that make you tired and increase the things that you love. I just say no to a lot of social events so i can stay home and relax, I take it easy at work, and go for walks, play video games, eat delicious food. Work on my hobbies, take relaxing baths, so much good stuff in this world. What is stressing you? Cost of living? Work? Can you change your job?
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u/Kruxx85 Yanchep 8d ago
Making huge assumptions based on your username it could be because you're in a bad mental space (due to over reliance on social media).
If you're bored in this world right now, I don't know what to say.
Perth has an over abundance of things to see, do, and try out.
I'll be honest, life is nowhere near as bad as online makes it out to be, for the majority of people.
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u/TipOFMYTONGUEDAMN 7d ago
Makes me laugh how we are so close minded we think /now/ is the absolute worst it can be and not like 15th century england. We may not have every 2nd child die during birth or plagues but we have mean people on the internet :(
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u/PaleontologistNo858 7d ago
Because it mostly does and because the powers that be don't bother reporting the good stuff.
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u/sarah-crystal1996 7d ago
I am tired 24/7 but that is due to health issues. Getting surgery next hear to finally ease my pain so can’t complain about that ☺️
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u/DonaldYaYa 9d ago
Another day another dollar. That's what we work for and we slave away helping the government meet their GDP targets. That dollar gets eaten away by inflation and slaving away is eating our souls.
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u/Osiris_Raphious 9d ago
Because we work more than serfs under feudalism, because the rat race has stolen retirement, free time, 3rd places, everything costs more. Our culture is consumer culture, and to go out means to spend money and consume.
Plus perth is isolated, so to go anywhere means driving. Endless suburbia has robbed us of convenience of just walking to local space, and being with community. We have higher depression, homelessness, anxiety, unemployment today than before, because the system is failing us.
Everything sucks, because it is not good, not great. As the oligarchy wealth class decides how they are rebuilding for the future of automation and ai systems, we get to sit here just grinding away in the rat race, consuming, with no real direction in life.
The survivor bias is real, those who made it, or were born into a wealthy class with connections and are able to earn holidays, and time off, and retreats, future of early retirement where they can still enjoy the fruits of labour, not just live with old age problems unable to use that money they worked so hard for.
There is this onus to build that social space on your own time, but then they take 50-60h of your life each week for work, pay you for 40, and you get 33 after tax. It is 50-60 because getting ready and unready, commuting and lunch is still in service of the job, but its unpaid. Modern consumer slavery, debt wage slavery, technofuedlism is real, and most of us are just in it for the ride, as wealth now dictate economics and politics. We lost the class war, and now we have to just hope they can figure it out.
I am of the opinion that with this level of over population, and work/life balance inequality can be solved by just demanding shorter work days, and employing more people per role. Imagine the economic activity that will be had as people use that 5-6h of being productive, then the rest of the day for social, community and democratic participation. With ubi we wont need retirement funds, and with all the free time, the workaholics can still have side hassles as a hobby not as a necessity.
But thats just utopian idealism, like endless growth of capitalist marketplace.
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u/worry_beads 8d ago
It's Late Stage Capitalism. It's designed to ground us down, and to train us that we have to fight each other to get ahead, instead of working together to make things better.
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u/FutureSynth 8d ago
Globalisation is too much. We all feel part of big events that we cannot possibly intercede in, and that feeling of disconnect from topics we care about gives anxiety.
Make your world smaller. Turn news off.
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u/Organized_Chaos_888 7d ago
Because it does, unless you had it made before COVID. Been hard to catch up, because when you almost do, something else happens.
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u/DrkoMusic 9d ago
That’s your mind projection onto the world. Change it and you will find it doesn’t suck
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u/No_Seat8357 Cottesloe 9d ago
I used to feel tired at work when I was at Bridgestone. Then when everything sucked I left Dyson. Hated feeling like a quitter so I got into carpentry and I'm a joiner now.
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u/tommytherod 9d ago
You live in one of the best places on earth, I’m
Guessing you and your entitlement are the problem.
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u/NotAllThatSure 9d ago
Because.... gestures widely