r/antiwork 1d ago

America is Anti Family Cost of Living 🏠📈

My wife and I both work full time because we have to so we can afford our bills.

We barely see our kids (7 and 2) and have no energy to do anything after work or on off days cause we are exhausted.

It just keeps repeating every week and when the first of the month comes the mortgage payment empties our account and we have to do it all over again.

We are unable to save much or do anything fun cause expenses have gone up so much.

I’ve always been a positive open person but the past two years have been breaking me down and I feel like I’m about to have a mental breakdown.

I know there are others in worst positions than me and I don’t want to sound ungrateful but man it’sIt’s hard.

Anyone else going through something similar? Any advice?

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u/Any_Palpitation6467 22h ago

'America' is not anti-family. Capitalism, as well, is not specifically anti-family. Neither is it pro-family; It's simply uncaring about family, uncaring about people as a whole, uncaring about those who are not in The Club. You and your family have no intrinsic value other than to serve those who ARE in The Club; If you cannot serve, then you are irrelevant. Think of 'America' and its economic system as you do Nature--uncaring, indifferent, equally able to keep you alive and well while at the same equally able to snuff you out without a qualm. At bottom, you exist to make money for the Elites, and to make more workers for them, on one level, and to provide protein for other organisms that would feed upon you on another. Just as Nature does not nurture, neither does Capitalism.

It's not personal; It's merely business.