• dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Considering the Earth is dying and society will probably collapse in the next 20 years, there’s no “retirement plan”. You either die in your work boots at 90, get shot in the water wars, or starve to death once agricultural zones turn to sand.

    Buy the game you want. Tell that hot person you’re into them. See as much as the world right now as you can.

    Sure, there’s a COL crisis right now in North American, but in 20 years we’ll look back at right now as “the good times”.

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      You’ve forgotten the fourth category: the rich who barricade themselves into a paradise of hoarded resources while everyone else dies.

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        It’s funny that the ruling class is banking on this outcome, without the understanding that to have a functioning society where people don’t just randomly die of disease or infection, you have to have a few thousand people that all live relatively close to each other. Bunker living is just delaying the inevitable death by starvation.

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      Man my kid is going to have such a leg up over all the people who think like this. I hope your hilarious pessimism spreads honestly.

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          Please keep believing this. I have no interest in talking you out of your life choices.

          I don’t care about you. I do care about my kids. It benefits my kids for more people to think like you and give up on their lives. I hope your beliefs become widespread so my kids have life on easy mode.

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              Allowing you to make your own choices is not selfish. Being excited about your bad choices, that you make without my input and that I firmly believe are silly, is not selfish.

              Being happy my kids will have an easy life is not selfish, by definition.

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                Selfish:

                : concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself : seeking or concentrating on one’s own advantage, pleasure, or well-being without regard for others.

                By definition.

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                  My daughter is not me. Your beliefs do not affect me at all. I’m already doing great, and you and i are most assuredly not competing for anything.

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                    You want her to have an easy life. That’s natural. At the expense of others. That’s selfish.

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                    You’re still acting like a bitch. I hope you’re not like this to your neighbors because they might shoot you AND your kids if shit hits the fan (but you have nothing to worry about… Right?).

                    Might be a bit contentious to say, but you’re really bad at protecting your young’s survival chances right now. Your selfishness actively endangers them even though this vector has no consequences right now. I hope you learn not to be an asshole to random people. It might impact more than just yourself. Granted I’m sure you’re only like this because you’re behind a keyboard, but if you said this to people in real life, I doubt you would have many reliable friends left.

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                  My certainty that my kids can outcompetes someone who gives up on life?

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            Just a guess, but I think your kids are going to be assholes. For their sake, I hope the apple rolls down a hill, far from the tree.

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            Your kids are going to have shitty lives if everyone around them has given up on life because the world sucks. Life on easy mode is being born rich.

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              We don’t get to pick when we exist, just play the hands wre dealt. Im happy they’re born into the safest, healthiest, most prosperous time in all of human history, worldwide.

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        Let me guess, you’re one of those “climate change is natural and the Earth has changed climate before a bunch of times periodically!” types of people?

        Turns out, pumping trillions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere for 150 years is bad for interconnected ecosystems. Notice how it doesn’t really snow anymore in North America, or if it does, it’s a “once in a lifetime” snowpocalypse? Notice how the hurricanes in the south don’t really ever stop now? Notice how Europe floods like a motherfucker now? Notice how many people are dying of heat stroke every year? How every single year is the hottest year in history? Remember when the North Pole existed?

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          Let me guess, you’re one of those “climate change is natural and the Earth has changed climate before a bunch of times periodically!” types of people?

          I’m literally a climate lobbyist for Citizens Climate Lobby. You should join! We always need more passionate people.

          https://citizensclimatelobby.org/

          Statistically speaking, you make around $35k a year.

          I make slightly more than triple that, plus my wife’s income. It’s trivially easy to clear $35k right now, if you’re willing to work some difficult, boring hours. I’ve dedicated my life to a role where I help frontline, unskilled laborers, and my last 2 jobs require 0 skills for our bottom-tier worker and will pay you well over 35k per year.

          My daughter is in college for psychiatric nursing. I’m not worried about her. Entry level salary is about what I make now.

          Also, slight correction - the north pole still exists. It’s just ice free more often. The north pole is a magnetic feature of the planet