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This system is severely exploiting workers, you have nothing to be ashamed of for taking full advantage of your compensation package. You'd be foolish not to keep contributing to your 401k while your employer is matching.
I understand the conodrum feeling though.
I haven't worked since Obama was president. Criminal aspirations, finessed and fronted my way to wealth with long shot get rich quick schemes. Most of them were really fucking stupid and didn't pan out but the one that actually paid off was something absolutely ridiculous like a 20,000% increase, I just had to wait a decade without any guarantees. I will pay more in capital gains tax this year than I ever earned in wages working a year back when I did.
I hate USD and I hate stocks/the market. Im divested from anything to do with either as much as I can. Keep the bank account as close to zero as possible. When I first started pursuing a life of crime I cashed out my 401k early and converted it into DMT.
crystal dreams > the market
Obviously that's a really dumb option if you plan to keep working. My personal ethos is investing in the market is investing in a future where these capitalist fucks run everything. My advice is divest where you can but don't throw away free money for your retirement pls
I'm chronically ill, non passing trans, disabled, no degree or skilled work experience so I have little trouble accepting my decadent and kinda obscene life circumstances. I mostly worked for tipped subminimum wages for all the years when I did work. I've been a crazy person on the street getting high and drunk in a tree in Washington DC when I thought my life was cratered.
Still I feel like a disingenuous mother fucker calling myself a communist at this point, I don't even feel human. Some kind of monster, elf demon prince. Keep telling myself I'll make it right in the future somehow but idk, I just feel like a mother fucker.
Consider that it is entirely possible the only reason we are able to have this conversation is because of engles