Almost feels like my brain is broken or some shit.

I’m looking at the pricing of houses in my area and comparing it to my salary, and how the actual fuck is anyone affording a house these days? We’re talking almost half a million for a house that takes <2 days to build and is practically an irl copy and paste of some of the homes down the street. What the actual fuck. It seems like I’m the only one (though I know I’m not) who sees how this is completely at odds with everything I learned about the world.

Also, so salaries. How the fuck are they determined? Because it certainly isn’t the result of how much actual work you do, I’m making nearly six figures and I do jack shit yet I’m supposed to just be OK with how morally repugnant that is, as if I’m not also a piece upholding the same utterly corrupt system as well?

Fuck if I know, I try to say this shit to people irl and they just tell me that the world’s not fair blah blah blah. Yeah homie, “not fair” is quite possibly the biggest understatement ever.

I very much understand what people say when they say that money is not real. Feel free to grill my complete ignorance of Econ too if you wish, maybe it’s just something I’ll never understand

  • Hohsia [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    27·
    9 months ago

    Fucking preach!! We are we fucking sold this idea that if you major in STEM, you’ll just gradually climb your way to the top (as if there aren’t C suites still in the company who should’ve retired decades ago but still want more wealth/power).

    I bet fucking Econ 101 didn’t account for that variable. Maybe that means we should make the slightest effort to try to implement some kind of constraint 🤔

    Like, holy shit dude. Congrats, your yearly salary is probably as much as I‘ll make in 10. I think you can hire a financial advisor at this point and retire comfortably.

    • carpoftruth [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      26·
      9 months ago

      I’m a stem professional. One year senior management told us we had done a good job bringing a new technology to market and that the company was making good earnings per share but that we would nevertheless not get a bonus. Later on, a board member was blessing us with his presence and told us about his art car collection. Fucking art cars, worth a few hundred grand a pop and he had a dozen. I rode a fucking bike to work and rented a 700 sqft apartment. That dumb fucking asshole, I hope his dick rots off.