Having responded to several posts, and making a few of my own, I hope you get the message loud and clear.
You can complain all you want about how bad life is. So what? How is that going to make your life better, or prepare this world to receive your children?
My generation, my father's generation, my grandparents and ALL the way back through time had it tough. WAY tougher than any of you had it. You have NO IDEA what hardship is if you're complaining that you have to work really, really hard just to make a few dollars and real estate is SOOO expensive and good food is hard to find.
EVERYBODY HAD THE SAME PROBLEM. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PROBLEM. IT WAS NEVER SOLVED, and frankly, I don't think it CAN be solved. Those who persevere and succeed get to eat good food, buy good land, build a good home, have a good wife and raise 20 kids. Those who do not are lucky if they don't die from starvation and should thank God and their benefactors every day for it.
If you want to complain -- go complain to your girlfriends or some GenAI or whatever. I don't have time for complaints and I don't tolerate them. If my kid complains about life being hard, you know what I tell them? I tell them how much harder it would be if not for the people around us who gave us the opportunities we had, and how ungrateful we are if we don't turn those opportunities into even greater successes.
LIFE SUCKS, it ALWAYS SUCKS, and it ALWAYS WILL SUCK.
Stop complaining.
Get back to work.
Put your two brain cells together and figure out how to get ahead in life.
First comes the problem, then comes the complaining. The only questions are: Is the problem actually there? And is it solvable?
> My generation, my father's generation, my grandparents and ALL the way back through time had it tough
Sure, and generations after them have it even worse. The problem is that things get worse from generation to generation, because there were some generations who let society decay.
When ***we collectively*** do not do the things necessary, it's future generations who pay the price, and they will have it even harder.
Simple example: Solving the jewish problem. It got gradually worse over time over the course of the 20th century. It would have been easier to solve it as early as possible. Now we are watching problems compound, and at some point they will be so difficult to overcome, that it won't be possible.
> EVERYBODY HAD THE SAME PROBLEM.
Wrong. Older generations could do some menial low-skilled job and afford a house, car, wive and multiple children with his income alone. Today... at least the man and the woman need to work. Also women are more involved in jobs, the general relation between men and women got worse, relationship stability decreased, political polarization increased (whereas women tend to be on the left more).
Sure, you had it hard. But at least it was solvable.
Today if people do the same as you did, they end up alone living paycheck to paycheck. So the difficulty is higher.
> If my kid complains about life being hard, you know what I tell them?
"You're welcome, at least I had it good"?
> and how ungrateful we are if we don't turn those opportunities into even greater successes.
Sure... but today is not the time for little inventions... new gadgets to toy around with. Unless the invention is called the Niggerbuster 3000.