Comment on Its still possible but harder with each passing generation

sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

For the most part I don't think it was ever easy. Maybe there was a very short period of time where there was an economic boom that really let you just do whatever, but if you go back in history it's always been the case that you need to sacrifice if you want to have a family. It's the reason why people live out in the middle of nowhere to go work in a mine for 16 hours a day. It's the reason why people end up on farms -- it isn't fun or nice work working on a farm. The fact that people like the look of green trees doesn't mean that you're not spending 16 hours doing backbreaking labor just to get a crop at the end of the day.

It's still possible, but you definitely have to fight for it. A lot of people aren't just aren't willing to do that. They want to have some mystical career where they can work basically no hours in a comfortable City center and make enough money to do anything that they want at any time.

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