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121 sats \ 0 replies \ @orthzar 19 Jul 2023 \ on: How true is this to you? meta
If you change "money" to "money/time/effort", then you'll find a lot of mundane examples:
- Lawncare, which you toil/pay a lot just to get a useless green carpet in front of your overpriced house to impress neighbors whose names you don't know
- Houses, which people treat as a trophy and an investment (despite the fact that houses don't provide a cash-flow and require constant maintenance) and which are overpriced by at least 2x
- Vehicles whose exhaust/stereo are at least twice as loud as they need to be in order to make the driver feel big and strong, but which only serves to aggravate most other people
- Clothing that emphasizes the shape of your body in order to attract people, many of whom are only interested in superficial relationships and will either abuse or neglect you (this applies to men and women)
- A job, which provides a paycheck that barely keeps you from becoming homeless, but which absorbs all of your time/effort, pours tons of stress into your soul, and which gradually shortens your lifespan (due to the stress and time wasted)
- Arguing with randos when they say something that makes you angry, but which in fact doesn't matter because they're just thinking out loud and aren't going to do anything