Transcription - Me seeing a 21 year old influencer buy her third house while I can’t even afford a sunscreen

The woman in the image is Katrina Kaif, a British actor who primarily work in Bollywood films

  • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
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    2 hours ago

    And why do people seek the short term high of addictions? Bad shit in their lives they have no other way to cope with. There will always be some amount of bad shit in people’s lives, but capitalism adds a whole lot of pain and suffering. Poverty is correlated with substance abuse for a reason. Even if you aren’t poor, you need to deal with alienation from the results of your work, lack of free time, and a patriarchal culture that oppresses women directly and keeps men from working through their feelings safely.

    It always comes back to capitalism and conservatism. Individual choices can certainly help, but blaming the individual is an idea that serves the status quo.