I live at home and am gonna get a job. Despite our President here, life so far is OK for me. However, I do wanna see the world and at least travel to Japan, Norway, Sweden, or the Netherlands
I live at home and am gonna get a job. Despite our President here, life so far is OK for me. However, I do wanna see the world and at least travel to Japan, Norway, Sweden, or the Netherlands
America is great if you are rich, but even our rich people are very unhappy that they aren’t richer, which is annoying and basically what drives all our problems.
I am in the top 15% in my country, and I see it all around me among my peers. People with tons of money and success who are just deeply unhappy they they don’t have more of it. And if you claim you are happy with what you have in life, people hate you for it.
Every country is great if you are rich, though. Also, I’m very poor, live in the US, and I’m pretty darn happy. Lemmy is definitely not even close to having the same attitude as most of the US. lol
The doomscrollers here on Lemmy are crazy. lol
That’s interesting to me, as I’d always assumed that if you were poor in the US you were kinda screwed. I’m in Scotland where it’s basically impossible to be homeless unless you choose it, and if you’re sick you’ll get treated by the NHS. It still sucks to be poor here.
Social services differ drastically from state to state. It’s possible to be happy and poor in a state run by the democrats. Probably not in a state run by republicans.
Honestly I don’t know why people call this a country when basic shit isn’t the same anywhere.
The culture in America certainly seems very, very focused on money.
But all a person really needs to be happy is somewhere nice to live, money for food and good friends.
Some people need to get cancer to understand what is important in life.
That’s because having tons of money is the only proven way to not have a crappy life in the USA. All the public services and citizen protections are undergoing rapid disassembly, without which one wrong move can put you on the street.
I don’t have any money and I have a great life. And I live in the US. All my neighbors seem pretty happy too.
I don’t have tons of money and I grew up with even less and my life is great dude.
You don’t need tons of money. What you need is to be smart with your money and way too many people aren’t. You don’t need a Lexus to be happy, but way too many Americans think if you don’t have a stupidly expensive car, you must be miserable.
Same! The doomscrollers on Lemmy seem to enjoy being unhappy and have no clue how life is for most people. lol
You don’t need tons of money, until you get an Expensive Disease and all of a sudden you need a LOT of money.
The number one cause of bankruptcy in the USA is medical debt. Unless you have insurance, in which case the number one cause among THOSE people is … actually still medical debt.
If you’re the kind of person who worries, the idea of not ever being able to get ahead far enough to guarantee anything really, really sucks.
You have no control over that.
If you want to sit around being worried that you might get cancer one day and get bankrupted… go right ahead. But it won’t make a difference.
Even if you have all the money, you can also still die.
America: If you’re not rich, then you can go fuck yourself.
It truly is a curse