• LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    I used to think the world was ran by adults. That has been proven time and time again that they are in fact not adults.

    The environment is starting to get worse and worse. Just last year, in DECEMBER, there was a tornado in my area. To add to that, tornados have been more and more common as I’ve gotten older. When I was a kid, you MIGHT have gotten one or two in my area a year. That has doubled now that I’m an adult.

    I don’t know where you live where you see a future to save for, but here in the US, it’s just not something I can see in the cards anymore. Trust me, I used to be all about saving. I’d rather enjoy my life right now, while I still have some energy.

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      4 months ago

      Tornado Alley has shifted to the southeast over the past few decades, that is true. But people have populated the Great Plains, where Tornado Alley used to be centered, for many generations. Why don’t you think your community will survive where others have survived?

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        4 months ago

        That’s just one issue.

        Let’s take a step further.

        Just in the last few years, here in the US, we have had chemical spills due to deregulation that have polluted our water and our air. This affects not only humans, but the local wildlife in those areas.

        Getting medical help, here in the US, is about as hard pulling your own teeth out without any help. Sure, you may be able to get it done, especially so if you are more well off, but for a great many including myself, trying to get any medical help is just asking yourself to be in debt for what could be, depending on how bad your health is, a lifetime of debt that you will never be able to pay off.

        Education in the US is at an all time low. Thanks to Republicans, we have less and less funding for our public schools. They’ve also got these fools thinking homeschooling is for the best, which means less children in the seats at school, which means even less funding for those that can’t homeschool or can’t afford a private school. In these same schools, they refuse to feed children who are mandated by the government to be there. While there are programs, lots of parents are too embarrassed or flat out refuse to acknowledge that they are poor. This leads to kids going hungry, because the government refuses to pay for their meals, and the parents refuse to sign them up for reduced/free lunch.

        I could add more, I’m sure, but there are a great many many varying reasons why we are fucked. You just have to look around, and stay informed.

        I wish you the best.

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          4 months ago

          “We are fucked.” And then what?

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            4 months ago

            I’m no professional who has spent their entire lives studying these things, so I can not give you a definitive answer. The best I could do is provide you with the information for you to make your own informed deduction, which I have done.

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              4 months ago

              Ok, I’ve deduced to plan for the future

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                4 months ago

                Good job missing all those points that were right in front of your eyeballs, but you do you homie. I just hope that it comes to fruition for you.

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                  4 months ago

                  I’m still confused as to what you think the better option is?

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                    4 months ago

                    Live here, in the now. Go see the world. Go do new things. Experience the world while you still can.

                    Saving can wait when you know the world will be worth saving for.