• TheOrcWhoWrites@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      If you won the lottery or worked ten times harder. Scratch that. Even working ten times harder still won’t give you that life. And you would blow the lottery winnings ~1 year.

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        3 hours ago

        Or the system provided higher salaries for work. Once not too long ago, one person working could support a family on one salary.

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        Maybe that’s the real trap.

        You get a glimpse of a life that most people will never reach. Then you go back to pretending the system is fine.