Facts.
Most Americans can’t afford an unexpected $400 bill, but let the internet tell it, everyone’s a hustler and getting to the bread. People are so far gone that they think having two-three jobs should be normal. They actively push against policies and ideas that would benefit everyone just so they can slave their lives away. Look at how proposals of raising minimum wage spark hostile reactions.
To this day people are happy to work 9-5 for five days of the week - despite that working model being outdated and not accounting for tech advancements that have increased productivity hundreds of times over allowing CEO of conglomerates to hoard bigger and bigger pay checks - there was a thread on thecoli recently with brehs celebrating Elon Musk being a billionaire and casually wanting to buy Twitter on a whim - meanwhile the average individual can’t cope with inflation and rising costs of living.
Our basic instincts are survival, reproduction and play. We are literally on this planet to socialize and play, but play is always taken out of the equation and replaced by working.