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systematic failures of capitalism ruining your life
then have everyone shout at you 'what about personal responsibility?' often, even your family.
this is one of the most insidious things about american culture and ends up inflicting the most damage to your well-being.
In a way, it's actually the runaway systemic success of capitalism ruining all our lives. Like a tumor, it's so fucking effective at parisitizing it's host (earth) to fuel meaningless growth for the sake of growth that it will be terminal if we don't excise it.