me_irl

In the USA we are slaves to make the rich be richer. It's kind of why the USA sucks at everything, because the citizens are raped by those above.

You should visit sometime if you want to understand more deeply. Most people are nice to foreigners and will spill their guts telling you anything you want to know.

I live in a relatively expensive cost of living area, Seattle, WA, but can still find good espresso for $4-6 USD for a double latte or mocha with good body and balance of flavor.

And personally, my phone was $1300 USD new when I bought it 3 years ago. I put it in a good case and try to take care of it, because while money is tight, I also use it for many things and the capabilities and quality enable me to do stuff with it that I like to, like good photos for traveling, bright screen for navigating in bright places, a stylus for impromptu explaining complex stuff and note taking, and lots of storage because I'm a power user. I also just really like tech and planned to make this phone last as long as I could. Battery life is still very good, and I use my phone everyday.

I do want a headphone jack, expandable memory, an easily replaceable battery, and better cases again. But, I'm no longer working in environments where I have to replace my case every few months, so that's a plus.

Also, the cost of living is high here because there is so much tech and high paid people. The capitalist land owners jack up the prices because they can and people pay it because they can and have sort of just accepted that if you want to work at, say, Microsoft or Google or Amazon or Meta, and you want to have a competitive position, you have to not be remote. And if you're going to live locally, you should try to be close, so as to save time and not deal with as much traffic. So people make a lot of compromises to do the things that they either love or pay well.

And then you have to really think that in 2020-2023 or so, when people were still socially distancing, a lot of businesses transitioned to remote work, which actually solved a LOT of problems.

It solved problems for citizens and workers and the planet.

It did NOT solve problems for corporate land owners and those invested in corporate real estate.

And guess what capitalism is? It means that the people with all the capital have the power-ism!

So, back to the previous system we all went! So that we could all be wasteful and give money to the landlords and business owners again!

I hate it here. Please help.