“Cost of living” is a polite way of saying “Fee to not be dead”
This subscription model sucks.
@Daojoan cost of existential crisis
@Daojoan You doubt that keeping you warm fed and connected creates costs?
@kolya @Daojoan self-sufficiency has been engineered out of the system on purpose by means of enclosure, which is a thing that was done historically in places like the United Kingdom and is still being done to people today. The Practical possibility of some form of minimum guarantee of self-sufficiency without participation in the wage system needs to be a goal we strive for.
@Daojoan I'm paying too much for the privelidge
@Daojoan Socialist revolution. Now.
@Daojoan I was at the pharmacy inside a hospital buying a $20 thing my doctor told me I didn't need anymore the next day. Anyway, I remember thinking how nice it was that the point of sale pad didn't have a tip screen.
@Daojoan I fear the average American is heading toward a time when we can only rent our lives. I fear that if we run out of money, we'll be imprisoned until we pay for the cost of imprisoning us.
@Daojoan Aka the value of life.
@Daojoan in Germany we say: zum Leben zu wenig, zum Sterben zu viel = too little to live too much to die (oder so ähnlich)