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[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

you can be anything if you put your mind to it

if you don’t get a college education you’ll never get a good job

if you can’t afford to live alone you should get a roommate

your company cannot afford to give you a cost of living wage, because profits need to be constantly increasing, regardless of sales

you can’t go bankrupt on student debt

your debt to income ratio is too high to qualify for this loan

your bank is overdrawn, you’ll need to pay a fee

You cannot qualify for this $500,000 studio apartment mortgage without $40,000 down

The industry you work in has been replaced by machines

Your non-union job was terminated because you could not meet the goals given to your robot coworkes, so you don’t qualify for unemployment

You aren’t qualified for anything else, and the jobs you apply to are looking for someone more youthful.

Your health insurance ran out, so you’re putting off important medical appointments and cutting back on prescriptions

You are now in the hospital because you ignored your health. You won’t be able to leave for several weeks. In that time you will lose your housing, your things, and what’s left of your savings. If you don’t die in this hospital bed, you will be on the street. Old, unqualified, and unable to get assistance

I’m sorry, you are not allowed to kill yourself. No one gets to escape.

[–] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Trying to make ends meet you're a slave to money and then you die" - old song

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It’s bittersweet.

[–] OmltCat@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

I have alway been wondering who are actually drawing all these pictures.

That’s a awful lot of money to commission an artist to make all these shitposts.

[–] bready2die@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

unrealistic, settle for thousands of dollars of debt like the rest of us

[–] luckyhunter@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

lower the bar enough that you trip over it!

[–] timestatic@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Damn now tell me: How exactly can you lower your dreams?

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Goal limbo anyone?

How did you knoe how much in my account?