• Silverseren@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I still question what “being an adult” even means. Sure, I pay taxes and have a job. Is that…it? I play video games in my spare time, spend way too much time on Youtube, and really not much has changed from when I was a teen until now.

    I have no hope of ever buying a home or of seeing even a fraction of the comparative wealth of a generation or two ago. So, what does being an adult even mean right now?

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      If you’re poor, being an adult is foregoing all of life’s pleasures and working until you are incapable of working any longer.

      If you’re rich, being an adult is indulging in all of life’s pleasures and making others do the work for you.

    • halloween_spookster@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I don’t believe that adults actually exist. Everyone is just an overgrown child who occasionally does things that are perceived as “adulting”

      ETA: I used to say this as a joke, but as I get older the more I actually believe it

    • Joe-Blow240@kbin.social
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      It means letting your dreams die a miserable death in service to whatever the fuck it is that this society values. Wage-slavery and and celebrity worship, I suppose.