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"Own Nothing, Be Happy”: The System is Rigged Against Us

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I’m talking about a system that forces people into dead‑end jobs for rigged money just to survive. Without this system, most of us wouldn’t even be alive — we’d be malnourished, with bad teeth, infections, and dead within a few years. If a system is broken but still the only thing keeping you alive, how is that something to “be grateful” for? Maybe I wouldn’t even be here without medical care. Maybe by nature’s standard, I was “supposed” to be dead already — but I’m here, fighting to survive in a rigged game.
 

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5 minutes ago, Yeah Yeah said:

@Basman  Coffee isn’t a luxury for me — it’s a basic pick‑me‑up so I can keep grinding through work every day just to survive and avoid ending up homeless. If I had to, sure, I’d cut it, but it’s not like I’m splurging on yachts. It’s a drink, not a vacation home. I’ve been scrimping for months, money’s been tight, I can’t even afford a jar for a few days, and I’ve already cut back on almost everything else — even quit tobacco. But coffee for my work? Come on, that’s one I need.

Your addicted obviously. That be like quitting heroin after 5-10+ years.

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@Basman 

Haha, yeah, maybe it sounds addicted. But it’s less about craving and more about keeping my sanity and energy for work that literally keeps me from being homeless. Coffee isn’t a luxury here—it’s survival fuel.

I'd point out that if coffee were truly as hard to quit as heroin, it wouldn’t be commercially sold—it’d be a banned drug.

Also, maybe Leo should put a “16+” entry requirement on this forum—some of these debates get intense fast.

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The only reason people drink coffee for work is because they can't afford cocaine.

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@Basman A friend tried to drag me into that world — cocaine, and things I didn’t even know had names. I stayed out. He didn’t. He idolized The Wolf of Wall Street’s excesses while I kept making, creating, producing. What’s left of him isn’t pretty.

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19 hours ago, Breakingthewall said:

All of that stuff that seems so dramatic to you is a luxury in 85% of the world.

Take a trip to Africa, where countries that are at peace and more or less functioning had a life expectancy of 50 years 20 years ago and now 65, or to the depths of South America, Asia, India, Russia, the Persian Gulf.

All of those people have lived in total misery and are now, little by little, reaching a standard of living that can be considered not absolute misery.

It seems that, like an entropic effect, rich countries are losing some of their luxuries, but even so, life in the West today is paradise compared to life anywhere else in any other era.

The west have only gained in wealth recently due to the industrial revolution and exploitative colonialism .

For milleniums, India and China were the leading world economies as per economic historians due to their high productivity and trade till they were reduced to penury by western colonialism . They have now emerged as fast growing economies, and India is now projected  to become the second largest economy  in PPP terms by 2038, with a projected GDP of $34.2 trillion.

 In the west, its the minority capitalists who own much of the wealth and the majority lacks the same, with inflation, homelessness and rising health care costs and cost of living among the main concerns. Also fixation with wealth and power and competition over colonies lead to the two world wars in europe which killed scores of millions of europeans and continues to traumatise them.

The western standard of prosperity, with a rich man owning mansions, private jets and fleets of cars is not practical for the rest of the world to aspire to , considering the havoc already perpetrated on the fragile environment leading to global warming and natural disasters on an amplified scale which can lead to  major disasters and catastrophies in the future.

As GAndhi himself stated, " Earth has enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."

So obviously a standard of prosperity which is compatible and friendly to the environment and society, and is holistic in nature, should be aspired to, rather than the present lopsided one.


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1 hour ago, Yeah Yeah said:

@Basman 

Haha, yeah, maybe it sounds addicted. But it’s less about craving and more about keeping my sanity and energy for work that literally keeps me from being homeless. Coffee isn’t a luxury here—it’s survival fuel.

I'd point out that if coffee were truly as hard to quit as heroin, it wouldn’t be commercially sold—it’d be a banned drug.

Also, maybe Leo should put a “16+” entry requirement on this forum—some of these debates get intense fast.

Amen brother. I drink bucked up sometimes, it has alpha gpc. Sometimes I'll crack a c4

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