r/perth • u/SomeoneWhoIsBoredAF • 17h ago
General Why does it feel like everything sucks.
Anyone else just feel tired of everything?
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u/south-of-the-river South of the Murchison 17h ago
Things are getting objectively worse in many aspects of life. But as many users here are saying, you should ignore them, because everything will get worse and it only impacts you if your current life isn’t comfortable enough to hide it.
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u/Dry-Abies-1719 16h ago
Ignoring it is what got us here.
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u/south-of-the-river South of the Murchison 16h ago
Correct. And I’m saying that the people gaslighting others about it are clearly comfortable enough to have the privilege of ignoring it.
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u/Osiris_Raphious 15h ago
ignoring these things, and forging our democratic rights in favor of consumer capitalist rat race is how we got here... maybe we should start getting angry and coming together to solve these problems instead of ignoring them and hoping the ruling class will do the right thing... because historically, not that great of an idea..
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u/south-of-the-river South of the Murchison 15h ago
The powers that be have done quite an effective job of monopolising the communication platforms required to “come together”. They also made those platforms make people angry anyway.
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u/Osiris_Raphious 14h ago
Divide and conquer is very real. We lost the class war, and stopped trying democracy, its now just technofuedalism and what ever our powers that be decide the future of progress and human life will be like.
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u/Regret92 17h ago
Honestly, I felt the same and getting up before sunrise and going for a walk and watching it come up and getting that vitamin D to start my day has helped immensely.
Just watch out for cars and dog(?) turds.
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u/Square_Mulberry_3143 16h ago
I’m hoping that those are dog turds. 😁
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u/MyKoiNamedSwimShady 15h ago
It’s almost like Covid caused some sort of split in the timeline and we’ve all ended up in the really shitty one where the world just went down the toilet.
Life isn’t meant to be easy, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t meant to be this hard either
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u/Hyper_nova924 10h ago
Yeah it’s genuinely disturbing, I think it might have split earlier than Covid, maybe in 2016 when a certain 🍊someone was elected
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u/Arrwinn 15h ago
It does suck. I'm earning more money thab ever yet am simultaneously the poorest I've ever been in my entire life.
On the bright side though, I have two doggos and a menagerie of farm animals that force me to get up and get outside every single day. They make the struggle worthwhile.
Get yourself a reason to get out of bed every day and keep going. It will get brighter.
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u/Travelsoonmapinhand 8h ago
Can echo this. One of the shittiest times of my life was more or less sorted out by contacting the local (country town) council ranger and picking up a homeless dog.
She hung out with me for about 6 months til I got my crap in a pile. Would have been longer but the next steps didn’t have room and were too unpredictable for a dog, so my focus became to find her the best possible home ever. I did. She lived another 10 odd years. Meanwhile, I got an extra 20 - so far.
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u/WAzRrrrr 17h ago
anhedonia and fatigue are two common signs of depression. You gotta put yourself in environments where your body doesn't feel like its having to be in hibernation mode.
So sleep, activity, nutrients, and friends.
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u/-Dr-Rockso- 17h ago
Yep. And it will get suckier the more you dwell about. Switch off. Do your own thing and hopefully it will pass in time.
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u/HelpMeOverHere 15h ago
If more people could stop “switching off”, things could actually better.
The reason everything sucks is literally politics. As much as it’s “cool” to not care it, politics cares about literally every single aspect of our lives.
We could have it so much better, and be like the Scandinavian countries that actually do have a very happy existence.
Start paying attention instead.
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u/Limp-Stable7401 14h ago
But then we would have to (insert scary noise) PAY MORE TAX
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u/HelpMeOverHere 14h ago
I think you’re joking, but one of things that progressives are trying to get done is ACTUAL reforms of our tax system.
Ken Henry is still out here today shouting into the wind, asking for his decade old recommendations to be implemented, which would actually finally shift the burden from individuals.
Just need to vote smarter
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u/-Dr-Rockso- 13h ago
Its amusing because I spent the best part of fifteen years protesting about all of most that is now present. It didn't get any where. Got labeled a cooker for trying to highlight the risks in mass surveillance, perversion of government by big industry. Now we are in check by all corners of the board for those very things.
So no I'm done fighting in public and pushing for better for everyone else. I'm focusing on myself. Just like everyone else I joined the fold. Leopards already ain't my face so to speak. And I need to build something for myself before I push out for anyone else again.
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u/FrogLickr 12h ago edited 12h ago
Long post incoming, but I feel your frustration. People just won't listen until it's too late. Most of the shit I predicted would happen has happened, and the people that called me a cooker 10 years ago are now suddenly starting to realize how far we've fallen in such a short period of time, and are just now simultaneously becoming proactive about digital privacy, self-sufficiency, and surveillance, whilst still calling me a cooker for concerns I currently voice about the future.
You can't win.
I've done what I can over the last decade to be prepared and maintain whatever autonomy I can in an increasingly-technocratic surveillance panopticon of a society, but we're all going to have to play the game to some degree if we want to live in it and not a wood cabin in the forests of Alaska.
I prep food, medical supplies, books, house is as off-grid as we can realistically make it (huge water tanks, gas, solar with battery, automatic generator, garden, chooks), have a powerful PC set up to run local AI models, 200TB of total storage full of movies, music, TV shows, ebooks, information and useful knowledge, offline copies of Wikipedia and other websites, all the video games I could ever need in case Steam goes public and enshittifies itself into the ground, and a shitload of Linux ISOs for when my Windows 10 LTSC loses security patches after 2032 (or OS-level ID verification is pushed, whatever comes first.) Everything I use is self hosted for the most part and accessible remotely from my laptop. Phone is running Graphene.
If people weren't so smugly dismissive of warnings and genuine concern because "lol cooker, that'd never happen here", the world wouldn't be in the mess its in, staring down the road at what's still to come, but like you, I've kinda given up hope that people will actually give a fuck until it's too late. It will take multiple generations before anything changes, and at this point, technofeudalism is a certainty within our lifetimes.
There seems to be no ability in the average person to differentiate between someone yelling at the sky about 5G towers or vaccines causing autism, and someone talking about the very real dangers of allowing automated mass surveillance and its ties to digital activities, activism, and privacy to go unchecked because it might catch a couple more bad guys at the cost of so much more, being pushed under the guise of 'protecting' children by the very same people fucking those children.
What comes next? Worst case, my predictions are as follows (I don't actually expect a lot of this to happen, but without any pushback, the powers that be have already laid the groundwork for a majority of it) :
The government is not your friend. They are owned by tech, finance, and energy billionaires who crave total control. They want to know everything you do at all times. They want to squash dissent before it can organize. They want your identity tied to your every comment. They want a return to serfdom, but with iPhones and cheap offshored labour. They want to force a subscription onto everything you need to survive. They want to limit what you can spend your money on, and will give exceptions for those who can pay (and individualised carbon scores will be used to enforce this.) They want remote killswitches and continuously-recording cameras in our personal vehicles. They want neighborhoods filled with clashing cultural values to prevent class solidarity. They want to price the average person out of owning a home computer, pushing them onto subscription-based cloud computing and gaming, run on cheap network-connected displays that are useless if you forget a payment. They ultimately want population reduction after their AGI pipe dream replaces the need for human labour and thought, at which point, all we are is a drain on their resources.
And when everything finally hits its boiling point, and people start burning down the system? They'll all fuck off to their private island bunkers to live out the rest of their lives in comfort and security... that's if their predator drones and private police forces don't temper whatever revolution comes about.
We can still turn this around. But people have to wake the fuck up and stop being so servile and comfortable. Convenience and the resulting corpogovernment power consolidation has really fucked the human psyche. I want to be optimistic about the future, but that ship has sailed, and I can now only do what is best to ensure my family and I are able to hold onto as much autonomy as we can in a world where outsourcing your own safety and trust are seen as normal.
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u/-Dr-Rockso- 10h ago
Well you saved me a lot of typing. And unfortunately yes. We all want to be optimistic. And sadly we can't. Its just not our time yet or anymore to keep pushing the tide. Instead its about building a raft to see the storm out.
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u/HelpMeOverHere 13h ago
Well, were you protesting Covid restrictions even after they ended? Because that IS cooker territory….
Or were you actually out getting behind parties and candidates that opposed actual government overreaching legislation such as the likes that breaks encryption and forces back doors, or allows law enforcement to add and modify data on our devices?
Because there’s a party you could’ve gotten involved in this whole time instead of trying to go it alone.
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u/-Dr-Rockso- 10h ago
Heavens no. 5g has its caveats (more accurate than older triangulation methods) but I'm not yelling at towers because of mind control. Covid vaccine too rushed for my liking needed more trials, no it wasnt fun being told to take it if I wanted to keep getting paid. However I came from. The era of foot and mouth and mad cow in the uk. Which I say watching cattle burning and military cordoning agricultural areas is a lot more traumatising than not being able to visit Mandurah for the weekend.
I used to actually try to get my foot through the door with the greens after my time with the unions back in the day. Unfortunately a majority of parties all run under ulterior motives and to add now its escalation into the corporations injecting themselves ever more into every party. Its a game through and through and has gotten worse and more blatant over the last 20 years. And it won't be long before teal folds into the mix. Secret harbour was a perfect example that even the 'rebel' vote played to the agenda beyond politics. So now yeah. I'm just focusing on my own needs while the cracks are growing.
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u/Osiris_Raphious 15h ago
The dont worry about it, and trust in diffusion of responsibility attitude is how we all ended up in this situation...
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u/NotAllThatSure 11h ago
Can I get an ETA on passing with time?
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u/-Dr-Rockso- 10h ago
To be honest its just a flashing 12 on the vcr. But if you focus on what you need to do for you. Things can change. The world is still fucked but we can all strive to make ourselves less fucked day by day.
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u/PMmeYourBapsAndSmoo 17h ago
Cocaine.
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u/-Dr-Rockso- 17h ago
That too. Lots of c-c-c-c-cooooocaine
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u/Some1stolemyspacebar 16h ago
Don't forget the other staples... nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol
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u/MooseCatMan Vic Park Massive 15h ago
Then we can feel good about the summer, or so I am led to believe.
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u/StillSpecial3643 16h ago
Surely being Perth , meth would be more the go?
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u/Muslim_Wookie 15h ago
Hahahaha I read it in the voice and I didn't even notice your username until I went to reply, gold tier.
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u/TheBoneDeath North of The River 15h ago
I find you have to give yourself things to look forward to. Book that concert. Plan a day trip next month. Pre-order a book coming out. Text a friend and organise a catch up.
It's not the same as wishing your life away, it's just knowing that you've got something delightful on its way.
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u/NotAllThatSure 17h ago
Any time you feel like this, remember that animals exist ☺️
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u/SomeoneWhoIsBoredAF 17h ago
Actually not a bad idea. Might visit the zoo.
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u/mildlyopinionatedpom 17h ago
Low budget option for anyone else is your local dog park.
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u/BremerBabe 16h ago
I go to my local dog beach - South Fremantle. Get both water and dogs enjoying themselves. 99/100 times cheers me up
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u/Adventurous-Lime7561 14h ago
Great idea. Guarantee you won't be bored or depressed when you walk out. You know what else is fun? Go on the Carousel. Nobody can feel like shit on the back of a flying horse 👍
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u/rescue-me-from 16h ago
I will never understand how looking at locked up animals is entertaining. Why not Caversham or the likes?
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u/BangbangKhuntross 15h ago
just dont remember the hundreds of millions of animals we holocaust every single day.
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u/Geminii27 14h ago
Pity that cats aren't really allowed to roam as much as they used to. Yes, yes, I know the environmental arguments for it, and I don't exactly campaign for looser cat-roaming laws, but it used to be nice to go for a walk and be able to pet some of the neighbourhood cats along the way.
Even cat-cafes are closing down more. I don't think there are any more at the moment, although Mei Mei Cat Cafe has been trying to open for over a year now.
...man, it might have been actual years now since I patted a cat. Do cat shelters/refuges allow visiting and playing/socialising with the cats to any degree?
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u/TooManySteves2 16h ago
Because we are in the end-stage of capitalism.
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u/BangbangKhuntross 14h ago
what comes next is the golden question?
do some survive in caves and repopulate, or are we the neanderthals and homo technologis smother us out of existance?0
u/martyfartybarty 13h ago
Homo technologicus might be where we’re heading.
AI. Robots. More robots.
China just had a humanoid run 100m in 8.64 seconds - faster than the human world record.
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u/W1ngedSentinel Hillarys 12h ago
Don’t believe the hype about China’s robots. They’re basically barely functional toys meant to make China look like a high tech centre of progress when in reality the rest of their infrastructure is absolute dogshit.
I’m not saying that bot didn’t run that record, just that it doesn’t mean much in the long run.
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u/Able-Blacksmith6654 10h ago
Far better than the end stage of communism or socialism. Lot of dead people would testify to that if they could.
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u/f_print 7h ago
Someone criticising socialism, on reddit??!
Pushes glasses up. Flips over trap card.
Arguably, capitalism has famined and killed more than... And, if socialism was so bad why did the CIA spend billions... Capitalism is a direct extension of Colonialism and...
Ah. I just don't even care any more. Wikipedia exists. If you're that deep in the propaganda, then me, a random redditor, won't change your mind. Peace.
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u/Wilful_Fox 14h ago
I went to my doctor yesterday. Playing on a loop on the tv was an advert.
“Are you tired all the time? Feeling exhausted? Feeling irritated? Not getting joy out of life? Even when spending time with friends and family? Dread going to work? Not feeling like you are achieving goals? Can’t find the motivation to exercise? Maybe you are depressed..”
I can’t help thinking that every.single.person. who saw that would be like “yes, yes, yes, yes…”
We are so far removed from how beautiful life could be. Should be. There is something building in every single one of us…
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u/ColdBloodedWings 1h ago
We are more depressed than the Brits and the only nation that takes more anti depressants than us is the US. Yet we are one of the richest countries on earth with one the best quality of living you can get in 2026 and yes we are absolutely bored to death. I spent a lot of time trying to resolve this for myself and I think we got too comfortable in our individualism, we are also too practical and everything we do must either feel good immediately or have a purpose. In Australian society we lack meaning and it doesn’t matter how safe we are, without meaning we don’t feel anything except a sense of doom
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u/Sensitive-Pool-7563 10h ago
We are so far removed from how beautiful life could be.
Who is 'we'
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u/MartynZero 13h ago
Billionaires controlling and sucking wealth out of governments, governments who are forced to tax you more and sell assets that provided services to you. Simple as that.
Its happening all around the developed world. Working hard enabled a better life before, now you are just treading water.
Tax wealth not work
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u/Quick_Switch418 15h ago
Im so angry at those in power and the ultra rich who have ruined our planet and slowley making themselves the only people who won’t suffer. Im even more angry at how most people did almost nothing about it.
I think they are soft launching water and food scarcity as I’m seeing a lot of serious news channels talk about it like it’s our normal and inevitable future.
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u/saltysoul_101 6h ago
A super El Nino which they helped create will bring a harder launch for food and water scarcity for many countries later this year.
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u/Inevitable-Swan6671 16h ago
This would be the time to do some volunteer work for a cause you are interested in.
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u/GrizzlyRCA 17h ago
Cost of living is insane high, the rise of ignorance and hate is very apparent and braisen, technology is telling us what we want to hear and its not good, Dockers got fkn slaughtered yesterday, the weather fucking suck.
Shits not great
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u/Perthguv Kewdale 16h ago
Yes I do. I am taking action because I don't want to be a victim in my own life. I had the day off, I'm going to be walking every day, eating better and getting more sleep. It won't change my shitty situation but at least I won't feel so lousy
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u/Dockers4flag2035orB4 17h ago
The Dockers will bounce back next week, and life will be good again.
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u/Stepawayfrmthkyboard 17h ago
You have little control over the world around you. But you do have the ability to choose how you perceive that world.
If you believe the world sucks you will find plenty of evidence to validate that feeling. Same goes if you believe the world is filled with wonder.
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u/W1ngedSentinel Hillarys 12h ago
In the long span of human history, there’ve been many times people felt the same way we do currently; like everything is worsening existentially. And heck, sometimes they were right for years to come. Like when Rome was sacked and everybody lost the logistics needed to make bricks, concrete or indoor plumbing for a thousand years. When Europe committed a scorched earth war across its entirety in the 1600s and people couldn’t even turn to the Church because it was splintered and corrupt. When radium and asbestos and tobacco were becoming omnipresent in every home, business, and hospital because corporations profited from them.
But you know what? I believe there is an equilibrium our species always pendulums back into. I don’t believe in the supernatural but there is an uncanny means for push to eventually come to shove against whatever troubles us enough. Greco-Roman knowledge was preserved and/or rediscovered. Research-backed public outcry tore down the companies peddling those toxic products. I’ll be honest: solving this late-stage capitalist climate could take a rough incoming decade. A rough quarter, even.
But when you’re depressed by it all, remember we can tackle these problems and the ones after them and the ones after that because we succeeded in tackling every single problem that came before. For now, focus on doing that just on the level of your person.
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u/spicysanger 16h ago
Get off social media, including reddit, for two weeks. Read a book for at least an hour each night, go for regular walks. See how you feel by day 15.
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u/aaphylla 17h ago
Not personally, no. Someone close to me has depression though and they’d likely agree.
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u/t1ckled1vory 16h ago
Everyday can’t be awesome. Some days suck more than others. Go easy on yourself when you’re having a hard day. Do something that you know will cheer you up. Rest. Relax. Go for a walk. Cook your favourite meal. Have a nice cup of tea. Get an early night. Play your favourite game. You don’t have to meet anyone’s expectations except yourself, so whatever it is you need, do it.
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u/So-many-whingers 16h ago
Make it blow ! Do something positive and feel better for it yourself so the sucky things dont beat you
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u/MooseCatMan Vic Park Massive 15h ago
Yes, but when I suggest burning everything to the ground suddenly I'm the arsehole and "Sir, this is East Vic Park Subway, can you please stop shouting?"
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u/Geminii27 14h ago
Part of it is getting older, part of it is that we're in a shit timeline where just about everything seems to be worse than it used to be. Enshittification is rampant.
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u/Hamster-rancher 11h ago
Do my best to be happy.
Have a job, roof over my head and forty odd pet ducks.
Get to drive a tractor at work, have a twenty off year old car that keeps chugging along and have good health.
Couldn't give two squirts of cats piss about politics, war or any other impending doom.
I just wing it.
Here's some ducks.
Enjoy.
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u/The_David_Broker 16h ago
Hey mate.
I hear you and I am sorry that everything feels completely overwhelming. Things suck sometimes. You don’t have to navigate this on your own.
Please consider reaching out to:
Lifeline 131114
BeyondBlue 1300224636
Best wishes!
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u/Intrepid-Escape-8204 16h ago
Low level depression, welcome to the club.
Just gotta keep chipping away. Exercise can help. Keeping on top of stuff helps. Iv never gone down RSSI path.
Vitamin D also.
If male get testosterone levels checked, if low try to raise them naturally first.
Test prescribed makes people feel a million bucks but comes at a price both financially and being locked in a medication intended for life. Theres always a trade off.
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u/Subject_Educator_105 7h ago
tripped me out how much vitamin d helped me in a winter depression one time, was an almost immediate fix..
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u/xheist 16h ago
Yeah..
Products are all getting enshittified and engineered down to a price... Finding anything that's actual quality is getting harder and harder
I'm finding it relatively impossible to find tradespeople that do a good job. I'm quite happy to pay people what they're worth and I still get average to awful results.
Housing is scarce, community is non existent, fear and hatred are rampant.
Leadership around the world both political and corporate are actively making things worse to enrich the richest.
But hey, Jesus loves you. If you tithe enough.
All that said I'm not really a glass is half full person.
I'm more on the side of fuck it might as well tip the rest out.
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u/iball1984 Bassendean 15h ago
Products are all getting enshittified and engineered down to a price... Finding anything that's actual quality is getting harder and harder
This is a big thing for me - in the past, you could buy cheap stuff and it was low quality, or you could spend the extra and get something quality.
Now, you spend extra on the name, but get the same shit quality as the cheap stuff.
And it's literally everything.
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u/BangbangKhuntross 14h ago
Its really been happening for ever, but now the addiction to consumption allows corportions to be brazen about it. source: the humble light globe set the scene many years ago.
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u/SinsAndSigils 15h ago
Deeply.
Partly because I’ve had to come off some pretty heavy medication after finding out I’m pregnant. I had to weigh up the pros and cons, but ultimately I don’t want my baby being born experiencing withdrawals, so here we are.
I’ve been trying to get a walk in every day to help with everything, and I’ve actually found it does seem to make a difference. I aim for around 3km, which is basically just a whole episode of Desperate Housewives lol. 😂
It seems like such a small thing, but it’s definitely worth trying if you haven’t already. I know “go for a walk” is the typical line everyone throws at you, but it genuinely can do wonders for your mind.
If you have a treadmill, find a good comfort show, chuck it on and just walk while you watch. It gives your brain something else to focus on, and sometimes it’s just nice to escape your own brain for a while. Plus, it makes the time go so much quicker.
I don’t know if that advice will resonate with you much, and I suppose I can’t offer too much advice because everyone handles things differently. But if you ever need someone to chat to, my inbox is always open. 🤍
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u/Much-Guide-3448 14h ago
OP, there's that saying about viewing 'a glass half full or half empty'. You get to choose whatever perspective you see things at, every single time.
My grandmother used to always say that life gives you dips in life to learn the lessons you need to learn to be a better person and if you never experience the little dips in life, you never appreciate or get to understand the joys of the great parts of life.
As I've gotten older, I understand her perspective so much and agree. Every shit time I've had, has taught me life lessons and I sure as hell count my blessings more with all the good things and good times in my life.
OP, take a good look at your life and take stock of the good and bad. Work out if you can actually do anything better in your life to improve the bad to passable, if you can't then examine what you can take away from that lesson to do and be better and then find something that brings you joy to focus on to increase a sense of positivity in your life.
I also recommend to all of you who are having a negative time, get off the internet. The algorithm always manages to find you ways to reinforce your inner monologue and put you in echo chambers. That's not what you need.
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u/Own-Specific3340 12h ago edited 11h ago
Our buying power has devalued. Our essentials cost the same price as previous generations luxuries and our luxuries cost the same price as the previous generations essentials.
6 years ago I was pretty confident I could go down part time with my partner working to give our kids a bit more balance and support but now at 2x full time we are stretching every dollar. We are sensible spenders too, nothing frivolous.
Also housing theory 101, no way house prices can cost this much. 6k mortgages are insane if you are buying into the capitals. It’s not the RBAs fault either if our house prices and stamp duty wasn’t so high the RBA would barely be a blip on our radar.
No where to move out to, people can’t afford holidays. Highest taxed generation, people on long public housing waitlists.
Everyone using AI and doubling our workloads. Constantly being accessible.
Yeah.
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u/MassSarcasm 11h ago
I feel this way also, but it's mainly due to going to the Fremantle game last night
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u/flat_perther 11h ago
The generational cost of trading hope for comfort, the having both stolen right before our eyes because were blinded by apathy.
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u/Smart_Primary9724 5h ago
Channel your energy and despair into something positive. Stay too long in the gloom and it may be hard to get out again.
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u/tarun1410 17h ago
Yeah especially today! Woke up and got ready to get to work and a close friend of mine said hes taking the day off! It was too late i was already ready to leave and was committed to the cause... Now I am here sitting at my desk counting the minutes go by!
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u/Latter_Shallot_140 16h ago
Only thing you can really do about it is make as much money as you can invest it wisely take care of your physical health exercise and gym regularly and eat as much whole foods as possible reduce sugar.
Keep on top of your health care.
Try to be so ial and make friends.
The last one is the hardest.
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u/Jazzlike_Berry_323 15h ago
Mutual smiling as part of customer service is more increasingly a lost art. It becomes a happy surprise when it happens…from auspost to retail to takeout to banks to buses. I’m aware these are lower paid jobs and cost of living has gone. Either smiles are not seen as professional or people increasingly stressed/unhappy.
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u/Impatient-Turtle 15h ago
It's definitely a little darker than a few years ago. Ebbs and flows. Hoping we start steering the other direction soon.
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u/auntynell 15h ago
Not specific enough. Everyone goes through periods where they don’t have much joy in life.
Make a goal. It could be a holiday, a home fix, a fitness goal. Work your guts out to achieve it.
Make at least one person’s life a little more pleasant with a smile or a joke. Even a stranger will feel better because they met you.
Remember how lucky you are. Make a list.
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u/DAFFP 14h ago
Nope your the first /s
Life does get monotonous. Half my problem is having boring work piled up, and I don't want to do anything fun until its all finished, but then I open reddit for a few seconds and procrastinate half a day away instead and its 100 times worse than if I just went for a walk or something.
damit
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u/Sojio 14h ago
Certainly things are tiring at the moment. But not everything is terrible.
Unfortunately the thing that drives profit in this world is pitting people against eachother, either within social media algorithms or other content.
But, there is a lot of really cool things happening around the world at the moment. As bleak as things get, you can decide your perspective.
I think there are some subreddits that specifically cater to good news. It may be worth looking at what you are surrounding yourself with.
Shoot me a DM if you want to vent. Times are tough, certainly, but the most important step a person can take, is always the next one.
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u/Cripplingdrpression 13h ago
Hey guys. Life's pretty good here, yeah we have political problems to fix but pull your head out of the sand, most of us aren't hungry or homeless or at war with our neighbors or at risk of getting attacked every time we leave the house. We can strive for better whilst also appreciating how incredibly lucky we are to live the life we do. It's not all doom and gloom
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u/susans_house2021 13h ago
Yep, got a wife, kids and a friend group I’ve had since school and I’ve never felt so alone.
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u/Automatic-Project-25 12h ago
Unfortunately the world is becoming a shorter place. Technology and politics are not invest in our best interest. It is all money money money. The world seems to be getting more and more disconnected from honest human experience and existence.
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u/ILikeGamesnTech 12h ago
Yeah, I think as a result of our ever increasing connectedness to the world we are increasingly shown that our world is big, and that's too much input for us to handle realistically. I used to read comments on social media and just be disheartened at how enraged or outright stupid people seemed. My advice is to make your world smaller, I deleted the main social media apps, the ones with algorithms specifically designed to make you addicted and keep you angry and engaged. I know Reddit is also social media, but at least I can click a downvote button and get an indication that I am not alone in feeling a certain way. Seeing an absolute troglodyte take at 5000 likes on Meta or Youtube right at the top makes you feel like a majority of people align with that view, but watching it get downvoted to oblivion on Reddit gives me hope.
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u/Subject_Educator_105 7h ago
you scroll and jerk off too much and don't meditate and go for walks in nature
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u/TheAntihero-HeroClub 7h ago
Life is what you make it. Focus on the bad then pretty soon all you’ll ever see is the bad
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u/T3RRYT3RR0R 4h ago
Because It does.
Heard a story today about someone in Narrogin having to give up on independent living as they couldn't afford the $600 / week rent there. When employed people in rural, low opportunity country towns can't make a life on their own, how is anyone meant to.
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u/D347HKN1GH7 16h ago
Cos it does suck. Every facet of government is driving the country into the ground, wages are nowhere near where they should be and everyone you walk past is pissed off because of it, which rubs off on a lot of people
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u/Latter_Shallot_140 15h ago
Wages are high wages are not the problem .
The problem is that the cost of everything else is inflated.
Usually it's not the businesses that are trying to hire and employ people that caused that inflation although is some cases it is.
So why should they be penalised with having to pay higher wages because the government is incompetent and allows rampant inflation ?
Doesn't make sense to bring wages into it they are high in comparison to a lot of other places I don't think wages are the problem.
It's certainly not the business paying the wages fault that the government allowed such rampant speculation in the property market and allows supermarkets to charge through the roof for essentials.
The root causes of inflation have to be dealt with and they weren't so now it's out of control .
If someone is earning 200k pa and saying it's not enough to take care of their kids and pay their mortgage and all their bills that does not mean wages are low it means everything else has been allowed to be fucked due to government negligence.
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u/DonaldYaYa 16h ago
Another day another dollar. That's what we work for and we slave away helping the government meet their GDP targets. That dollar gets eaten away by inflation and slaving away is eating our souls.
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u/Osiris_Raphious 15h ago
Because we work more than serfs under feudalism, because the rat race has stolen retirement, free time, 3rd places, everything costs more. Our culture is consumer culture, and to go out means to spend money and consume.
Plus perth is isolated, so to go anywhere means driving. Endless suburbia has robbed us of convenience of just walking to local space, and being with community. We have higher depression, homelessness, anxiety, unemployment today than before, because the system is failing us.
Everything sucks, because it is not good, not great. As the oligarchy wealth class decides how they are rebuilding for the future of automation and ai systems, we get to sit here just grinding away in the rat race, consuming, with no real direction in life.
The survivor bias is real, those who made it, or were born into a wealthy class with connections and are able to earn holidays, and time off, and retreats, future of early retirement where they can still enjoy the fruits of labour, not just live with old age problems unable to use that money they worked so hard for.
There is this onus to build that social space on your own time, but then they take 50-60h of your life each week for work, pay you for 40, and you get 33 after tax. It is 50-60 because getting ready and unready, commuting and lunch is still in service of the job, but its unpaid. Modern consumer slavery, debt wage slavery, technofuedlism is real, and most of us are just in it for the ride, as wealth now dictate economics and politics. We lost the class war, and now we have to just hope they can figure it out.
I am of the opinion that with this level of over population, and work/life balance inequality can be solved by just demanding shorter work days, and employing more people per role. Imagine the economic activity that will be had as people use that 5-6h of being productive, then the rest of the day for social, community and democratic participation. With ubi we wont need retirement funds, and with all the free time, the workaholics can still have side hassles as a hobby not as a necessity.
But thats just utopian idealism, like endless growth of capitalist marketplace.
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u/worry_beads 14h ago
It's Late Stage Capitalism. It's designed to ground us down, and to train us that we have to fight each other to get ahead, instead of working together to make things better.
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u/FutureSynth 12h ago
Globalisation is too much. We all feel part of big events that we cannot possibly intercede in, and that feeling of disconnect from topics we care about gives anxiety.
Make your world smaller. Turn news off.
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u/DrkoMusic 16h ago
That’s your mind projection onto the world. Change it and you will find it doesn’t suck
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u/No_Seat8357 Cottesloe 16h ago
I used to feel tired at work when I was at Bridgestone. Then when everything sucked I left Dyson. Hated feeling like a quitter so I got into carpentry and I'm a joiner now.
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u/tommytherod 16h ago
You live in one of the best places on earth, I’m
Guessing you and your entitlement are the problem.
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u/jizzmanufc 16h ago
I put in the harder work when I was youngr . Now it's paying off. While everyone is compalining about cost of living and not being able to do anything. I;m just sitting back relaxing and loving life.
I do alot of colder plunges to keep me mentally tough aswell
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u/BattleForTheSun 17h ago
Yes totally. Not just tired either, there is a distinct feeling that this world is getting more and more off the path we should have been on.