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[–] [email protected] 58 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd like to report in as someone at the end of that process and is actually making good money.

Now I need:

More time to hang out with friends and family. πŸ₯²

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

At least you can cry in your mcmansion.

(Joking ofcourse)

[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Extremely clever, well done

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Greed is like a mental illness, and only an ill society rewards it.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Thinking you need more money does not mean you're greedy though.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (14 children)

For real. I have a lot of problems right now, and there's not a single one of those problems that can't be solved with an adequate amount of money.

I, like I think a lot of people, fantasize about winning the lottery not because I'm desperate to live in a mansion or to have a $500k sports car in my driveway, but because I dream of watching all my problems absolutely evaporate before my eyes.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

I have a disability and I'm a student so I have zero physical or mental energy to have a job next to my almost full time study. I used to just be broke all the time. I found out there's a city government fund for people exactly like me, and it honestly so fucking crazy what that extra 300 euros a month does. It's not just that I can afford necessities and something fun once in a while but it gives so much peace of mind. One of my cats was sick a few months ago and I could just take her to the vet and have her blood work done without having to stress about it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

xactly. Any other problems are usually self made or if not then the money still can ameliorate them greatly. Like being crippled. Better to have a nice house, someone to come clean, with stair lift and such than to be on the streets with a tiny tim crutch.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

True, but do you see anyone rewarding the character in this comic/meme? Nope. That's because he isn't greedy, he is just anxious.

When a billionaire wants more, or a corporation, THAT is a display of greed. Which is rewarded.

Should've wrote my first comment more clearly as it does come off like an okboomer criticism of anyone needing more money

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Over-consumption loop.

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

I have already limited my consumption to a minimum. Now I just need to make more money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

While this is true, this is severely short sighted and misses the perspective of being impoverished and constantly being unable to make ends meet even after you have cut luxury from your life.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

the wise men all tell me I must be overconsuming housing and healthcare, which is why they cost so much. it's simple economics, I'm told.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

Becomes a billionaire: ... NEED TO MAKE MORE MONEY!!!!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

Corporations when they only made 1 billion gajillion shmillion dollars net profit last year

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Capitalism moment

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not if we overthrow the capitalist system.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

I'm trying!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Step 1: wake up at 4:30 every morning

Step 2: ICE BATH

step 3: fucking butter in your coffee for some reason

Step 4: starve yourself, that butter was enough.

Step 5: GRIND

Step 6: p90x

Step 7: Write Joe Rogan a pledge of allegiance.

Step 8: GYM

Step 9: GOGGINS!

Step 10: MARATHON

STEP 11: HGH INJECTIONS

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STEP 13: here you can either traffick women or rob a bank

AND THATS HOW I HAVE ALL THESE NICE THINGS BRO JUST GRIND IT OUT.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Q: How do I make more money? A: Scam other's out of their money

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Money always has to come from someone else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Difference being with honest work, people value your product and it actually does what you are promising.
Scams are not this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Work harder, better, stronger faster. Work, work, work.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Here you can have my money πŸ’°πŸ’°

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

... And my sword!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

How I've felt lately. Smh

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

this is the best version of this meme I have ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Its tough being a counterfeitter

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This post made by Dutch Van der Linde

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

"One more thing. Arthur".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

He's just like me fr fr.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Unrelated to the meme, but I appreciate your username. Do you prefer chair conformer or boat conformer?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I just need to make more money

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Best economic system btw

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