It feels all but certain that I won’t be able to enjoy a prosperous life or get to retire. All of the wealth is going straight to the top. All of the opportunities to move up in the world are being rug-pulled. All of the federal agencies that help keep us safe and healthy are gone. The social safety net is getting flushed down the toilet. We will live in disease and squalor, and the most vulnerable of us will die.
Because I dared to not be a sociopath, I and anyone else who voted for sanity will be deemed enemies of the state and hunted down - which won’t be hard, because it would be trivial to build the most robust surveillance state in human history if it doesn’t exist already.
I myself have disabilities (which I don’t think qualify for benefits) that make it hard, but not impossible, to find a job. The problem is that I just can’t bring myself to do it because I don’t get what the fucking point is anymore. I have to work so hard to get out of this rut just for some fascist fuck to kill me or toss me into a torture facility before I can even experience life on my own.
Have you been in a similar headspace and were able to escape it? If so, what snapped you out of it?
Get a STEM degree and move to a country that respects its citizens.
As someone that spent half their life very poor, I always take offense with the “just move” answer. Many people, if not most, in the US cannot afford to emigrate. It is also very likely that OP or someone else in their situation, cannot afford to get a STEM degree.
Is there even a place one can migrate from US, and be better off?
Of course, but first you need to figure out what your true definition of “better off” is. What would bring you true quality of life. Also, what would you trade off in order to achieve that quality of life? The answers to those questions are very individual.
My sincere apologies for trying to be helpful.
Or other degree that’s also useful, including social work or the arts.
The arts lol? Nothing but debt.
How many movies and TV shows do you watch? You think those things appear out of nowhere?
You think those people get paid a living wage?
In places that aren’t America? Probably.
And in America yes, depending on the job. Most are Union jobs, and they get paid pretty well. Non union jobs usually get shafted and mistreated.
Obviously, there are massive discrepancies of pay, and treatment, especially coming from studio execs and the “money men”.