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Some people get off on shocking others with dehumanizing gore etc. when they thought they were in for a dick pick at worst.
Some people get off on shocking others with dehumanizing gore etc. when they thought they were in for a dick pick at worst.
I’m a nearly 40 year old who decided to have a kid at 30 because my career trajectory looked promising and none of my siblings had kids/my wife and I wanted kids. We’re those silly optimists who think if we can raise someone who loves this world and is part of the solution, we can make a difference.
I make roughly 3x the average salary and with just one kid… I feel like I’m killing myself, doing permanent, irreversible harm to my body and mind with how much I work and how little down time I have.
I feel like life is passing me by while I’m trapped in a dark room churning out investor gains I’ll only ever see a fraction of while the execs in my company pull down record profits and eye watering bonuses year after year, but I dare not stop, because like everyone else, I’m one moderate catastrophe away from destitution.
And Santa Fe. And Virginia Tech. And El Paso. And Parkland. And UT Austin.