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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How The US Gave Up On Growing Food⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Its been interesting watching people who literally own millions of dollars in land scream about how poor they are, and continuously blame liberal ‘elites’ when they could sell or rent their millions of dollars of land for profit. Like I get it, that value isn’t liquid cash so they might be cash poor and finding it hard to make ends meet, but when you’re sitting on extremely valuable land that you can sell whenever, its crazy to be screaming about being poor when most people in the US own nothing and are renting their apartments or homes, and have no value of anything to sell when they’re cash poor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fewer People Are Reading for Fun, Study Finds | From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally everyone is overworked and fried. My partner had a job that she got to leave at work, when she was home, she was home, all work resources were stuck at work so even if you wanted to do anything extra, you couldn’t. She would read all the time multiple books a month.

  Now she works for a tech company and literally never reads. Even if she knocks off at 3, or 4pm out of sheer frustration with her project management, she’s so emotionally exhausted she doesn’t want to do half the stuff she used to at the previous job.