I live at home and am gonna get a job. Despite our President here, life so far is OK for me. However, I do wanna see the world and at least travel to Japan, Norway, Sweden, or the Netherlands

  • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
    10·
    15 hours ago

    America is great if you are rich, but even our rich people are very unhappy that they aren’t richer, which is annoying and basically what drives all our problems.

    I am in the top 15% in my country, and I see it all around me among my peers. People with tons of money and success who are just deeply unhappy they they don’t have more of it. And if you claim you are happy with what you have in life, people hate you for it.

    • 1984@lemmy.today
      3·
      14 hours ago

      The culture in America certainly seems very, very focused on money.

      But all a person really needs to be happy is somewhere nice to live, money for food and good friends.

      Some people need to get cancer to understand what is important in life.

      • SparroHawc@lemmy.zip
        1·
        13 hours ago

        That’s because having tons of money is the only proven way to not have a crappy life in the USA. All the public services and citizen protections are undergoing rapid disassembly, without which one wrong move can put you on the street.

        • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
          11·
          11 hours ago

          I don’t have tons of money and I grew up with even less and my life is great dude.

          You don’t need tons of money. What you need is to be smart with your money and way too many people aren’t. You don’t need a Lexus to be happy, but way too many Americans think if you don’t have a stupidly expensive car, you must be miserable.

          • SparroHawc@lemmy.zip
            1·
            4 hours ago

            You don’t need tons of money, until you get an Expensive Disease and all of a sudden you need a LOT of money.

            The number one cause of bankruptcy in the USA is medical debt. Unless you have insurance, in which case the number one cause among THOSE people is … actually still medical debt.

            If you’re the kind of person who worries, the idea of not ever being able to get ahead far enough to guarantee anything really, really sucks.