• Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    25
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    I have no kids but I don’t have 3 money.

    Turns out being the sort of person who -specifically- doesn’t want to deal with any of the responsibility even tangentially related to kids also isn’t well suited for the responsibilities of a regular 40hr/wk year round job… or being an independent adult at all really.

    (It’s me and literally nobody else I’m speaking about above, just for the record)

    • littlecolt@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      1 year ago

      “But just wait, try buying a house as a single working class person! Not fucking happening! Try again once you marry someone who also works 40 hours and you might have a chance! But you might need to rent out one of the bedrooms to some poor single sap! Hahaha!” - the system

      Capitalism abhors a single man. I feel like my no kids and 3 money lifestyle is basically discriminated against nowadays.

    • redfellow
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      That’s a stretch, and maybe true for you, but the world is full of people, such as you described, that haven’t got that issue. Not wanting kids doesn’t automatically make you bad with responsibilities.

      It only makes you a person that doesn’t want kids.

      Edit: I can’t read

      • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        Literally said in the comment you replied to that I was talking about myself and nobody else (and it was never edited) so not sure why you responded with this.

        • redfellow
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          Apologies, I’m not sure how, but I never saw the last paragraph

          • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            Righteous indignation a fit of pique will do that, and I’ve been guilty in the past of the same.

            No worries. I’m not painting with a broad brush, I’m recognizing myself in a way the others relate to :)

            Have a great morning/day/afternoon/evening/night, depending where you are :D

            Edit - I didn’t realize that righteous indignation has a specific religious meaning. I was aiming for less religious and more just sort of …defending the downtrodden. Is there a better word for that?

            Edit 2: I learned strikethrough for this edit and it worked!!

  • Gerryflap@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    19
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    Cigarettes should be too expensive for anyone to buy. They ruin a lot of beautiful moments. I hate being at some party and having some idiot forcing these cancer particles into my nose because they’re too lazy to go outside to smoke.

    • MrMamiya@feddit.de
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      9
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      T1D here. Love having to be exceptional or in poverty to make enough money to eat. No average diabetics allowed.

      • Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        I just can’t believe how difficult insulin companies make it to have a closed loop system to automatically deliver or stop delivering insulin based on glucose level. I do know that there is open source code on the internet to make that work using a GCM, but it requires an older device, Apple Software, and an understanding of coding that I do not have yet.

        • MrMamiya@feddit.de
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          Shout out to separate deductibles for the tubing supplies.

          I wouldn’t trust myself to maintain an open source system. Pretty wild this shit isn’t free. Like do we deserve to be alive or not?

    • Akasazh@feddit.nl
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Legalized drugs are fairly cheap to produce, but taxation is the biggest part of the sake price

    • madeinthebackseat@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Creativity takes inspiration. Somebody has to manifest the stepping stones on the path to a masterpiece. The magic of the internet is we get to watch it happen. We’ll rarely hear Beethoven’s garbage or see Michelangelo’s screw ups, but whoever did this…we get to see the stepping stone.

  • beigegull@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Things cost stuff.

    Except Bio-Dome, that’s free. Basic economics says that price approaches marginal cost of production.

  • quindraco@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    Imagine paying for health insurance. Might as well burn your money, at least you’d get some heat.

    • quicksand@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      1 year ago

      Or hope you get hired by a European based company that gives a little bit more of a shit about you

        • quicksand@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          1 year ago

          It’s weird when they respect basic human rights. Totally fucks your perspective XD

        • aard@kyu.de
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          1 year ago

          Applies the other way as well: A decade ago ended up not signing the contract after initially accepting the position at a major US chip makers EU office - with managers in the US - as it became clear during the process to get to that point there’ll be cultural compatibility issue for my spoiled EU citizen ass, even though the office was in the EU, and they’re forced to follow our labour laws.

      • wearling0600@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Holy cow, is that a thing?!

        Some stuff in the US is pretty cool and money is nice and all, but then I have friends in senior positions within big tech who have only 12 days of paid time off which is real shitty.

        At least they can work remotely for a few days so they get a couple of decent holidays, but that just means they can never fully disconnect.

        And they can just use the healthcare system here when they’re back, which is nice for them but I’m sure not everyone has that luxury.

        • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          I think approximately 30 days off is pretty much standard in the developed world, with 23-27 of those being whenever and 3-7 being fixed public holidays (nyd, Christmas etc)

        • quicksand@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          Ya I get off on the 4th of July and Christmas. That’s it. But they give 2 weeks of floating holidays in lieu of that, 3 weeks PTO and 2 weeks of sick time per year. That’s a great setup in my industry and I attribute it to them being from the Netherlands. I also work 12 hr shifts and anything beyond 8 is OT, which is a choice by them, because I think it’s only required in California and I’m not there. The last company I worked for was based out of Cali, did not have that OT policy, and only 2 weeks PTO and 1 week sick time. So I’m only speaking anecdotally but from what I’ve seen, European companies take better care of their people, even when not legally mandated

    • Jim@lemm.eeOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Don’t trip, I got a streaming link for Son In Law right here. (But you might wanna install an adblocker first because DopeBox is annoying without one)

  • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Sounds like you haven’t invented Europe yet, even if you spring for a non-Eastern vareity it does make the price of dino juice, houses and cigarettes increase

    Medicine

    £110/year or so for unlimited medicine prescribed by a doctor

    Health insurance

    Who needs it

    College

    Usually free or at least heavily subsidised (even in places like the UK where you’re paying £10k/year the government also plays about £5k-40k towards it depending on what course etc.)