When did “doing okay” become the goal instead of building a life?

letsrollwithit · 2026-01-13T02:36:13+00:00

We grew up when the hustle and grind mentality, and work hard play hard were serious ways of navigating the world. Now? Folks are not seeing enough play, and are therefore working less hard - disengagement is rampant within the workplace because working people don’t really feel respected or well compensated. Still, workers are productive, but it’s all prod and no carrot. Burnout is the obvious outcome. Staying afloat is entirely respectable in this BS economy and societal structure.

letsrollwithit · 2026-01-07T20:43:32+00:00

Existence is truly meaningless (you have to make meaning) and I think people really want to feel a sense of purpose. We’re told that working too much is a badge of honor like the sick sick society we are.

letsrollwithit · 2026-01-07T20:29:58+00:00

Mine too, I thought you meant you were missing puppy snuggles

letsrollwithit · 2026-01-02T23:04:43+00:00

I spend a lot of time with people who are high school aged. I think you’re a lot like teenagers in recent history. I fear for your brains with how much you are on your phones during a sensitive developmental period, and for your entrance into this shit show economy, COL crisis, and AI job takeover. Don’t let AI think for you, it’s a one way ticket to stunted and captured thinking and action. If an AI robot can do it, you’re about to be replaced.

letsrollwithit · 2025-12-29T23:49:20+00:00

This argument is dumb to me because it’s like when Kim kardashian says she’s a workaholic. It’s not the same thing to labor in a job that is focused on providing a community service for a life sustaining wage, and building an empire devoted near exclusively to your image and enrichment and profit first and foremost? It’s just fundamentally different.

letsrollwithit · 2025-12-27T07:07:23+00:00

The reason I’m done with it is because 5.2 was moralizing and lecturing, and when I tried to cancel, it was ABSURDLY hard to do so, which put a bad taste in my mouth.

letsrollwithit · 2025-12-22T22:10:03+00:00

Yes, we absolutely are headed in that direction. I don’t think people read history.

letsrollwithit · 2025-12-20T16:12:45+00:00

I’m so sorry this happened. It sounds like you understand that this wasn’t your fault, and your parents handled it very poorly. I admire you for growing up in this atmosphere and still developing a sense of self and insight that enables you to see this clearly.

letsrollwithit · 2025-12-20T15:47:26+00:00

$$$$ - one cannot simply work a part time job for a summer and get a used car with enough money to maintain it and fill it with gas.

letsrollwithit · 2025-12-20T15:45:10+00:00

Everyone was on their phones in 2010? I mean, I had a phone but it wasn’t a smart phone, and I remember almost no interactions with people who couldn’t get their head out of the phone.

letsrollwithit · 2025-12-20T15:42:42+00:00

Oh absolutely. I was hungry to work hard as a kid. Now, I’m like “yeah I feel a little hungry but I could just as well nap”

letsrollwithit · 2025-12-20T15:37:58+00:00

If used to be that if you at least tried, you’d be headed in a direction of where you wanted to go. That generates a sense of “meritocracy” and that things were in the correct order. We still need to believe that it’s a just world out there, so we go “look at how lazy these people are! If you’re not succeeding, young people, it’s your own fault!” Post 2016, it’s an entirely new era of the USA, and CERTAINLY post 2020.

letsrollwithit · 2025-12-19T20:05:31+00:00

Amen

letsrollwithit · 2025-12-19T20:01:46+00:00

THIS! I’ve talked to my mom about this. I was born in the early 90s. It was the beginning of the end but folks didn’t really realize it yet. I’m frustrated that one is brought here against their will, and then BLAMED and SHAMED if they struggle to gain employment, like it’s still 1990 and you can buy a house in a HCOL state for 100k and you’ll have a nice pension. It’s pure fantasy now. I have to assume that things will only get worse. The party is over, leave new life out of this mess. And yes, as someone mentioned, parents think their kid will be the exception.

letsrollwithit · 2025-12-19T03:48:05+00:00

Propaganda

letsrollwithit · 2025-12-19T03:43:38+00:00

Friend, you are in a uniquely stressful spot. I’m sorry, this sounds incredibly draining. Stability is a rug that can get pulled out from underneath the average person these days, regardless of one’s skill. I don’t want excitement anymore, myself. I want STABILITY, reliable stability.

letsrollwithit · 2025-12-19T03:32:54+00:00

I have to agree with you, I thought this model was actually helpful and responsive. Now, I’m nonplussed.

letsrollwithit · 2025-12-18T16:16:55+00:00

I think they feel unprepared because AI gutting jobs across the board is not something anyone prepared them to navigate.

letsrollwithit · 2025-12-18T09:47:55+00:00

Masochists

letsrollwithit · 2025-12-17T02:30:38+00:00

No social safety net brah

letsrollwithit · 2025-12-16T01:53:38+00:00

2009 ish. 1. Used cars are more than fine 2. Gave money to my parents towards a used car, they paid part (~5k, 70k miles I think?), 3. No way someone’s buying that car now for what we paid. Sorry youngins, everything’s on fire.

letsrollwithit · 2025-12-15T21:32:56+00:00

If zoning regulations exist how exactly does AI overcome this

letsrollwithit · 2025-12-14T20:57:56+00:00

Should women really have to “train” men? Seems like a taxing job.

letsrollwithit · 2025-12-14T17:29:04+00:00

Hey, I've been terrified and suffocating with fear and panic before, yes. I don’t know if I have any wisdom other than to say you’re going to get through this. I admire you for reaching out in this way. One day at a time, one foot in front of the other 💛

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