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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Leek-Ok on 2026-02-15 17:28:22+00:00.

This society is fucking trash! The definition of success is to study for years and then get a “good” paying job and wage slave your whole life while not even getting anything good (owning a house, retiring early etc) in return and giving most of your paycheck to some bullshit rent that isn’t even good quality? Wtf? And people just accept that? How is this dystopian world even accepted? How is wage slaving your whole life away for peanuts (even worse if you are someone unambitious and lazy that didn’t improve themselves and are stuck in dead end jobs) considered as a good thing to do? I can’t wrap my head around it, it’s so ridiculous. We work our whole lives for peanuts, either we suffer in a high paying job, or either we suffer in a dead end job, or either we suffer for being unemployed, most of working people’s paychecks goes to basic necessities! Why we didn’t create a society where at the very least, working people, whether blue collar or white collar, get something in return in long term? The main difference being that, white collar people, gets them a little bit faster, but blue collar people win too regardless. Such as, retiring early, owning a home. In the current system you work for decades and in the end you neither own a home nor manage to get a passive income just enough to live. Just fucking nothing, you get nothing in return. All I want is to being compensated after decades of working, not being rich, not having fancy material conditions. Just having good enough conditions to live without working, but apparently even that is too much. You work your whole life, you give most of your paycheck for basic fucking necessities, and then just fucking die. Why the hell would I be motivated to work? I’m losing my mind, is this how life supposed to be? Holy fuck. And people in “developed” countries HAVE TO live with fucking roommates just to get by, if that’s the case, why the hell are these countries even considered as “developed”? You basically can’t afford anything. You always have to compete and compete and compete, and even then, it’s not enough! HOW MUCH LOW the bar has to fucking be? It’s already on the ground, and it’s going even deeper! This trash society expects from you to be awesome at everything, to always improve yourself, to bear the burden of stress and hard working every day, just to give you nothing in return. Either compensate people for their hard works no matter their social status, or if you are gonna give nothing, make working conditions easier.