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Why Does Everything Feel So Fake? (Houses, Jobs, Money)
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Date: August 24th, 2026 12:59 PM Author: coalition of rabbis (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896658&forum_id=2),#50089339) |
Date: August 24th, 2026 1:01 PM Author: OYT was Right All Along ( ) because it is. the only thing that is Real here on this compost heap is the stark indifferent wilderness. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896658&forum_id=2),#50089344) |
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Date: August 24th, 2026 1:03 PM Author: janet reno I think it's because we spend our whole lives playing along with the script. You buy the house, do the job, accumulate the things, and everyone nods like it makes sense. But if you actually step back and look at it, none of it was ever real to begin with. It's all just a story we agreed to tell ourselves.
The weird part is that knowing it's fake doesn't free you. It just makes everything feel slightly hollow while you keep going through the motions anyway. |
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Date: August 24th, 2026 1:24 PM Author: coalition of rabbis 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896658&forum_id=2),#50089441) |
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Date: August 24th, 2026 1:26 PM Author: UhOh you have to accumulate enough money to be able to totally disassociate from it. that amount differs for everyone, but until you've got it you're a slave. even with money, life is still sps because you're going to die but all the societal pressures become optional and kind of amusing. it's called "fuck you" money for a reason. once you don't need anything from anyone else, you can say and do pretty much whatever you want.
problem is all the things you describe just pull you in further and further. you have to participate long and strong enough to stack but all the while keep one foot out the door. people have trouble with that kind of cognitive dissonance. |
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Date: August 24th, 2026 1:32 PM Author: janet reno the hardest part is that the game is designed to make you forget you're playing. Every promotion, every raise, every new thing you buy gives you just enough dopamine to forget you were ever looking for an exit. By the time you realize it, you've been complicit for years and the whole thing feels way more real than it actually is. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896658&forum_id=2),#50089462) |
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Date: August 24th, 2026 1:38 PM Author: UhOh yeah i don't know why but like 4 or 5 years ago i just totally lost interest in buying things. i realized they didn't make me happy or change my life, i was just chasing some dopamine hit. now i get a dopamine hit every day realizing i can cut loose at any time. recently had a similar adjustment with my job. like i hope it goes on for another 10 years because it's so easy, but i'm done seeking promotions or doing extra. it's bare minimum from here on out. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896658&forum_id=2),#50089479) |
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Date: August 24th, 2026 1:41 PM Author: Monikor the autist neet really can be understood as ubermensch imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896658&forum_id=2),#50089482) |
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Date: August 24th, 2026 1:38 PM Author: khers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896658&forum_id=2),#50089477) |
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Date: August 24th, 2026 2:06 PM Author: a New York Times analysis of Reddit posts If you’re not procreating you’re not really living (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896658&forum_id=2),#50089549) |
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Date: August 24th, 2026 1:36 PM Author: online luddite Because it is (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896658&forum_id=2),#50089473) |
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Date: August 24th, 2026 1:38 PM Author: Jung Jeezy I worked so much harder when I was poor. I could have learned to do what I do now in 5hrs from the age of 13. It's all a joke and it only gets more egregious as we approach AI wipeout (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896658&forum_id=2),#50089478) |
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Date: August 24th, 2026 1:43 PM Author: LathamTouchedMe Marx's theory of alienation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896658&forum_id=2),#50089485) |
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Date: August 24th, 2026 1:51 PM Author: janet reno the Marx reference is spot on but I think it goes deeper than labor alienation. Marx wrote about it in the context of factory workers, but the same logic applies to knowledge workers now. You spend 8 hours a day producing value you do not own, for a company that could replace you in weeks, and the compensation is a paycheck that gets immediately recycled into rent, student loans, and healthcare premiums. The thing that makes it feel fake is that the entire system depends on everyone pretending the job title and corner office matter when what you are really trading is years of your life for the privilege of staying housed.
What makes it worse is that the exit ramps are all rigged. You quit your job to start over and suddenly you have no healthcare, no 401k match, no stability. The system is not designed to let people opt out, it is designed to make opting out look like insanity. So you stay and play along and tell yourself you are building something while really you are just keeping the machine running. |
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Date: August 24th, 2026 1:52 PM Author: UhOh i create value for the system, that's my thing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896658&forum_id=2),#50089510) |
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Date: August 24th, 2026 2:33 PM Author: Richard Ames Good poast. I touch on this in a later poast in the sense that people aren't even really creating value anymore, so much of the activity is simply cash extraction while decreasing value to the end user (while figuring out various schemes to keep them stuck despite a decrease in value delivered).
Opting out as much as possible is the only way forward for a man to feel sane. It doesn't mean you can't work with the machine, but you cannot truly operate within it IMO. |
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Date: August 24th, 2026 1:45 PM Author: Oh, You Ricky? You are a fraud, raised in fraud by frauds from birth
marriage is fraud, family is fraud, your mother is fraud, your dad perpetuated the fraud, the govt and the nation abetted the fraud, religion safeguarded the fraud, its fraud all the way down your bloodline to Eden and the Serpent and Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil where our first inclination was to choose Fraud and live as Frauds in a Fraud Existence because the entire reality is conceived in Fraud which allows it to exist because ultimately Truth can not exist without Fraud
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Date: August 24th, 2026 1:48 PM Author: Jung Jeezy stop ricki I can't (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896658&forum_id=2),#50089499) |
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Date: August 24th, 2026 1:49 PM Author: Oh, You Ricky? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896658&forum_id=2),#50089503) |
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Date: August 24th, 2026 1:56 PM Author: agenticman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896658&forum_id=2),#50089529) |
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Date: August 24th, 2026 1:52 PM Author: Monikor important poast (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896658&forum_id=2),#50089512) |
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Date: August 24th, 2026 1:46 PM Author: the wife guy cinematic universe I think online is more real than IRL now. Can say almost anything here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896658&forum_id=2),#50089496) |
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Date: August 24th, 2026 1:49 PM Author: agenticman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896658&forum_id=2),#50089500) |
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Date: August 24th, 2026 1:55 PM Author: coalition of rabbis (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896658&forum_id=2),#50089526) |
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Date: August 24th, 2026 2:02 PM Author: hex the truth is, the wife guy cinematic universe tp, it always was (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896658&forum_id=2),#50089537) |
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Date: August 24th, 2026 2:00 PM Author: lfo boobs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896658&forum_id=2),#50089534) |
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Date: August 24th, 2026 2:31 PM Author: Richard Ames Huge amounts of jobs amount to coordinating information from point A to point B to more "efficiently" extract cash from processes without necessarily adding any value. It's just endless amounts of process work to squeeze a couple percentage points more of margin out of a product or service. As opposed to "building a better mousetrap" or growing margins through adding more value to the end customer.
The latter is more durable, but also much harder and requires some level of risk. So instead, many white collar professionals spend all of their time grinding out efficiencies. It's incredibly hollow and, increasingly, doesn't pay nearly enough to justify the work IMO.
Additionally, and related in an indirect way, is the amount of economic activity related to entertainment. Whether it's "content" creators or gambling apps or whatever. Just enormous amounts of time and energy put towards creating ever more ways to "entertain" people who have nothing better to do.
Just look at the top people on YouTube. It's all garbage like "I tried every item on the menu at 5 different fast food chains" and it has a cartoonish thumbnail of some dumb goy with his mouth open and overly bright colors.
Finally, and perhaps the least fully formed of my thoughts, is the strange status competitions that go on in white collar environments. Freaks who all make within the same compensation band "competing" with one another by going on obscure trips or blowing all their money on concerts or festivals or whatever. All to try and differentiate in any way that they can because they have no *real* differentiation whatsoever. |