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So people trade time with their families for accolades and an easy office chair? I wouldn't trade a single day I've spent with my nephews - for any amount of money. Years from now, I doubt you'd even sell your memory of the worse diaper you've ever changed. Most people balk at the idea of parting with past experience but will readily sign contracts that eliminate most future options. How is different tho?

You wouldn't sell me the memory of your kids first steps 5 years ago but you'll sell me his future ball games, all of his time between 9&5 and weekends if I give enough accolades

Don't buy the lie - work is fundamentally unfulfilling and everyone, everywhere eventually realizes that for themselves. If you disagree today, it doesn't matter, you will ultimately experience it... if you spend enough time alive.

All a career really is a different form of high school and absolutely as meaningless the moment its over.

Kids & family are not like that at all.

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So what do I do? Don't sell my future memories to support what I created?

I'm an incredibly capable individual but I just won't earn more than 20-30k a year, bc that's enough for my life. That means I will never buy a brand new car, house, or "financial security" , haha - also means I don't give a fuck about employment. I can change jobs as easy as I change a uniform. What I've learned from the, "I'll just be poor - keep your overtime" philosophy is huge tho - our PARTICIPATION is the most important thing, it's the key to everything.

When we are finally done with this boomer world - all we gotta do is sit down, or our own couches even, location isn't as important as not a fucking thing. The day we all decide to just stay home, is the day we get everything we want

I clearly use too many emojis if removing renders my text structure to that mess. The only thing I want to fix is the missing word doing from *as not DOING a fucking thing. Just sit down. Stop. Don't make payments - when they threaten your credit say, "fantastic, I'm done buying things" - when they mention morals and ethics, say your doing for this the planet and our survival as a species. Seriously. This is what I say to student loan collectors and I've had my loans returned to the university the very next day in one instance (typically over a year)

So you took on debt knowning you wouldn't repay it? That's theft. Your whole comment is a weird flex. Enjoy yourself.

No, I was tricked into this debt and I can't go bankrupt on it. I love that my choice to be poor is a flex tho - thats rich. I refuse to pay those that took advantage of my youthful ignorance for the rest of my life.

How were you "tricked" into debt? Did you not do due diligence? Prior research on the commitment you made? Forced to commit under duress?

Ignorance is not an alibi.

Or as my buddy GW put it

“Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.”

It should be my right to go bankrupt buddy - that's the part that proves this is fucked. I've watched so many business owners take on debt with the intent of going bankrupt - that's happening every single day. I was ignorant, but I was walked into those loans by the financial aid office at my state public university.

I refuse to pay - I want to accept the consequences of not paying, take the hit on my credit report for 10 years and move on with my life.

That I can't is dangerous for everyone. Societies that create too many of me - end.

>I'm an incredibly capable individual but I just won't earn more than 20-30k a year, bc that's enough for my life.

Is that your choice or an assumption?

When you get injured you'll just die right? Ezpeasy.

Are they? Once you die you won't take them with you. We all are born alone and die alone. When work stops, when life stops or when the world ends are they all meaningless or does each moment add to a wonderment.

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