You work hard for money -> so you buy unnecessary stuff since you earned it -> you have no money -> you work hard for money…
I have quit this loop by limiting my consumption to minimum. My friends ask me why don’t I buy X if I can easily afford it and it will make my life better. Well, not better enough to justify waste of both my money/time and Earth’s resources to manufacture something.
Also over-consumption is a fuel to capitalist dystopia.
Oh, is that so? (startrek.website)
I've been robbed! (startrek.website)
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Shut. The fuck. Up. (lemmy.world)
Need to make more money 😩 (lemmy.ml)