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It's really noticeable, especially in the HCOL areas. People are just at their wit's end and all out of fucks to give. And it stacks, because as others care less everyone's life gets harder. Deliveries don't get delivered, food isn't made with care, entertainment is less entertaining. And it's hard to blame anyone in these roles, because I feel the same way.
It's a powderkeg and no one with the power to do something seems to have noticed, but I wonder how much worse it gets before something has to change.
The is no level of "worse" that will make the people responsible willingly change.
The "Inflation" that is crushing people is almost entirely down to executive greed. They're bringing in record profits, giving themselves giant bonuses and not letting even a crumb escape their snout. COVID showed them they could take even more from people so now that the supply issues have settled, that's exactly what they're doing.
And they'll never feel bad about it. They're the people who told the radium girls to make a point on their brush by sucking it. They're the people who put formaldehyde in milk and shrugged when it killed children. They're the people who don't even try to hide the foreign and domestic slaves in their supply lines. They're the people who told us that cigarettes were good for our lungs as they buried research saying the opposite. They're the ones who astro-turfed and bribed people into doing nothing about climate change.
They're not going to start suddenly feeling guilty, because if that was an emotion they were capable of, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
The only way to stop this is to put limits on how much they can line their own pockets. No more tax loopholes for the rich, no more insane wages and bonuses, no more brutal exploitation of foreign workers.
Because if there's a dollar they think they can get their hands on, they'll do reprehensible things to make it happen.
Ya everything's just a little more shit now. Goin to restaurants and you're orders fucked, long lines, grocery store looks like a bomb has gone off, cant even fucking afford all the streaming nonsense now. It just goes on and on
I live in a terrible apartment that I'm happy about I guess because it's the only one available that I can even come close to affording. I'm sick of watching my friends move away
I think what makes me the most bummed is that change is not for sure. Do things get bad enough? And if they do, does that mean anything? I've lost a lot of hope in the last couple of years. COVID did a number on everything