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I figured :( I’m just wondering, were costs of living *ever this bad…
Edit: Do you think it’s going to improve or is late stage capitalism just going to keep doing its thing?
That's a difficult concept
You know what I mean though. Is this going to improve or is it just going to keep getting worse
The main thing that helps me sleep soundly at night is knowing at least the buck - and the personal suffering, I hope - stops with me in terms of future humans. As long as they still have safe and relatively easily accessible chemical euthanasia when I start becoming unable to care for my basic needs, I am not going to get too anxious about my own life - which is the only thing I really have the most control over.
If society collapses I think I have enough in me to find a way to have a meaningful and healthy enough life that contributes to others existence... but I'd probably rather take myself out when it gets to the roving-marauders-with-guns phase.
I don’t think it’d be so dramatic or immediate. At least I hope not. More just the downward slide of shittiness that’s been happening, and vastly more people not coping or able to get basic needs met.
A worsening of the mental health crises and violence in the CBD, even more homeless than now. Increased health care burden due to drug use, heat stroke, assaults or malnutrition.
Possibly arrests turning violent because people are increasingly being forced to squat and getting evicted plus the right to protest has been gradually eroded by laws. Climate change slowly gets really bad and wrecks people in cheaply built houses. (Tbh that’s already happening.)
I really hope things can improve. Plus between depressed wages and rising costs it could get to the point where people are literally unable to buy shit and the economy fails anyway.
Edit: Mutual aid is one way but honestly I’m no longer able to do it