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What you don't want to do is throw your ex-wife into the mix as the world slowly crumbles around you. (self.chat)

submitted 10 months ago by Powderhorn to c/chat

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I'm at the limit of survival, which is not ideal. By this, I mean I have no income, no financial support, and my van doesn't start. This last bit turbocharges the first. If I can't shower, I can't go into an interview.

And so, my ex shows up, as she always does. She moved back to Oregon and discovered that where one is at does not assist what one wants. So she's in Texas now, needing to be useful in some way that her increasingly shitty job cannot provide.

Which puts us on the same path for the first time since meeting 14 years ago. There was a lot of throat-clearing on the call last night before we realized we'd found our own paths to the same place. I don't know what this means ... I don't think regaling y'all with details is particularly helpful, but she has energy I don't to throw at my family, who's given up on me because I see late-stage capitalism for what it is.

Given prior art that would necessitate a trigger warning, I can't see being part of the machinery that tells us to obey.

But what's so absurd is the person who may be my biggest exponent is also the person who crushed me and turned me into who I am. It's like Stockholm Syndrome on steroids.

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[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (11 children)

I’ve seen that before, years ago. It’s intensely depressing.

Especially when you’ve never even made as much as the far left median income blob. I’ve maxed out at roughly half that amount over my years of employment (I’m mid 30s and never stably employed), and have never yet gotten above 45k in wages (one job had a profit share that brought me just shy of 50k, pre-tax ofc).

I agree that we are in need of reform but frankly I don’t see that happening before revolt does. Too many people with too much of a vested interest are in charge for that to be realistic. Maybe a few “make an example” cases and that fixes things, but… realistically that’s not going to happen… a few examples are explainable..

But anyone who might do the right thing is being threatened by those who don’t want the right thing done.. look at the threats to judges for the trump thing.. it’s so volatile.. and who can blame them for getting the hell out before they get killed; judges aren’t soldiers.

And I hate that. I’m tired of living through historically significant events. It’s fucking exhausting.

I don’t really have any help for your or op’s situation directly, but comrade, we are not alone. We are in this shitshow together, and we can only do whatever it takes to survive. We can worry about thriving when we get past surviving.

[–] remington 2 points 10 months ago (6 children)

...I don’t see that happening before revolt does.

This has come to my mind many times. I have this gut feeling that a large portion of our population will just come to the end of their rope with nothing to lose. I believe that a massive civilian uprising could begin to dismantle civilization as we know it. It could get ugly here.

[–] jarfil 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Russia has a way to stop revolutions: vodka.
The Tsars knew it, Stalin knew it, Putin knows it.

Another powerful way to stop revolutions is: an UBI.
Lenin knew it, Heinlein knew it, the Arabs know it, Norway knows it, Iran forgot it.

Whether it will be vodka, an UBI, or rivers of blood for the US... only time will tell.

[–] remington 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is UBI = Universal Basic Income?

[–] jarfil 2 points 10 months ago

Yup. It's not as morally great as an actual resource redistribution, but seeing how those redistributions have worked historically (as in, not at all), it's the next best thing in order to keep people happy enough to not revolt.

That is, unless religion (see Osama bin Laden: the guy had a $7M/year "stipend", and what did he do? Instead of living his life in luxury, he went and bought himself an army, just to get himself and a lot of others killed 🤦)

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