I have a job that, when I work it, gives me validation and food-money. I can do this forever. I don't need more than the basic needs and a bit for special stuff. That's enough.
True, but revolutions usually take place by the few. I think that we just stopped discussing things with each other and just let things be. There will be no divine intervention I think.
In Germany it's starting to get hard to find employees. Our demographic is fucked.
The company I work for offers 35h per week / 30 days of vacation plus 6 additional days that you can either take or transform into money / work from home (if you wish) / paid overtime / paid travel time / good travel compensation / a very, very strong union (IG Metall) / subsidized meals / very good pay (for German standards) etc.
Yet we have a hard time finding people. It's a bummer but I believe the young people don't really have anything to work for. Nice housing is scarce and way too expensive, excessive consumption just fuels the climate catastrophe so no point in amassing shit no one really needs. They just want to have some time to themselves and don't give a shit about leading a comfortable life. And I fully understand them. If it weren't for my daughter I'd have sold the house and all meaningless shit and lead a healthy life instead of working for some dipshit just to make said dipshit richer.
I see. I think that this is happening almost everywhere. Neo-liberalism's tactics are hitting hard societies that are implementing it. But yet again, sell everything and lead a healthy life, where and how...?
Air travel. I do it, I've been doing it all my life, but it's basically a series of opportunities for something to get screwed up and waste your whole day, lose and/or destroy your stuff, end up stuck overnight in a smelly terminal with no food or bed, and maybe get puked on by someone's baby or your junk grabbed by a dude in a fake police uniform.
Having to deal with frustrated and angry users unloading on me because I cannot fix their issues right away is probably my biggest thing that makes me stressed out. I work in Windows Desktop Support, need I say anymore?
For sure! There's a reason why I on all of my personal computing devices and servers that I refuse to have anything Microsoft related. All I run at home is Linux and BSD.
Alot of the serious things that people here already mentioned, unable to see a bright future for humanity. Cant afford a house of your own, etc.
But another thing that affects me day to day is
Seeing stray cats and dogs on the side of the road. They just make me sad and then i have the urge to help them. And then realizing that i cannot help them all.
The fear of being left alone by everyone, because i don't always adapt to peoples expectations now, like i kinda did my whole life. I know at the end of the day the people who realy matter will stay, but it hurts feeling like someone who once was your friend may be talking trash about you behind your back, because of misunderstanding and things that changed.
I saw a cat yesterday, just chilling on an empty road out in the fields. I switched to the other side of the road, because I didn't want to scare it off, but as I passed it, it fucking meowed at me, like "Pet me?".
Which, you know, seems like a reasonable request. And I would have liked to. But I don't even know how to do the baby/pet voice, let alone how to break out of the whole manly man spiel.
Well, and then there's dogs, which are much worse than that. Most either interpret me not interacting with them as me fearing them, so they become aggressive, or they're the cuddly/curious type, immediately walking up to me for pets.
Other people's problems. I myself don't really have many problems that affect me personally that I have to deal with. I'm a fairly boring-ass person that takes care of shit as it arises, BUT there's other people in my sphere of existence that all seem to have bigger problems (mostly self-inflicted). And their lives just keep getting worse as time goes on. I know I'm not responsible for their problems, but they're close enough to my life that I feel the need to help when I can (usually in the form of $$$). If I were in the reverse situation though, if I suddenly had some big financial issue strike me (knock on wood), I'm pretty sure I coudn't count on any of those people to help me out, I'd be completely SOL. Part of me wishes I could just disappear and go live somewhere as a stranger and lose contact with everybody.