I'm 34 and jobless. I am deeply resentful towards the so called 'work ethic'. Here's why...

Ok live far better? Are you serious? Half the population is on antidepressents...

Here's why I feel so deeply resentful towards the system, that I am as deeply reluctant to serve it:

First off, it is so stressful and monotonous competing with hundreds / thousands of other wannabe slaves, that you are forced to constantly upgrade skills and sell yourself more (beg harder). It is degrading to beg to be someone else' slave.

Second, if you manage to get an interview, you are heavily interrogated.

Third, if you make it through the interrogation procedure they now own you and they can talk to you like shit and force you to slave away as hard as they like. Not so? Disobey your boss or argue back, you will find yourself penniless and homeless in no time.

Fourth, you are forced to work with people who may be absolute assholes and there's no escape.

Fifth, you take the stress of a job home with you and your mind is swamped with work schedules. so you cannot truly relax - ever.

Sixth, all of your freedoms are removed from the moment you leave school to the moment you retire. You are forced to work 8 hours per day - Monday to Friday - until your youth has gone forever. In fact, your freedoms are removed as soon as you start school.

Seventh, you are deceived into thinking that you are entitled to two days of freedom, but you are so stressed from the previous 5 days of slavery you just want to sleep in on Saturday. Then you spend Saturday night getting drunk to blot out your miserable existence. Sunday is spent sleeping in and feeling like shit from a hangover.

Eighth, constant toiling away and being handed heavy schedules age you prematurely, not to mention stressing the immune system.

Ninth, you cannot live a self sufficient lifestyle legally independent of the system because if you build a log cabin anywhere, so you can fish / hunt or grow crops for food, the system's henchmen will destroy your home and imprison you.

Tenth, you are a tax generating automaton who exists to swell the moneyboxes of the elite.

There you have it -- the big pink elephant is not staring you in the face from the far corner of the room, it is sitting on you and crushing you with it's enormous weight, yet the world is in collective denial over this very obvious fact. Why? Because slavery is all they understand.

That's why I hate the system and refuse to serve it.

How fucking dare you say this about Britian. People like you with your stupid fucking comm.... oh, sorry, looks like you're absolutely right, do apologise. Carry on....

Lol, when were you last in Britain?

I just don't get it. Anti-depresants? Don't get me wrong, some people really do need them. However, the vast majority do not. It's a legal high for people who can't cope with life.

I am not making light of "real" depression, but just because things don't go your way is not depression.

Get educated or a trade, or something. Just because a person doesn't have the gumption to get educated / a trade when they are young, doesn't give them the right to sit around and live off the rest of us who do take our responsibilities seriously and contribute to society. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?

Regarding # 10 How does the earth belong to anyone? Who was the first to sell it to them? We should be able to live anywhere we damn please as long as we respect and care for the land. A person who is living off the land in harmony has more right to it than a corporation which is using it for factories which dump toxins into the ecosystem, which sickens all life in the surrounding area. Yet, if the corporation which destroys the enviroment, has a piece of paper showing "ownership" we feel we've no right to complain about what they do. We need to go back to being tribal. United we fall divided we stand.

medicated/ mind controlled zombies vs. the OP's understanding.

Let's see exactly what these zombies belong to and worship here.

it's all about the money

Oh really, is that so?

Me thinks money is the LAST thing you should think about. The money will come, have faith in that.

Do you have faith in yourself though?

The only thing "real" in this life...is your experience of it. And it sounds like you have already chosen to experience everything that comes your way in a less-then optimum perspective....you are looking at everything in a way that does not seem to make you happy, in a way that does not work for you. The world is not that way...YOU are choosing to see it that way! Hmmm, what do you think would happen if you decided to switch that perspective about?

As a starting point...what are you grateful for? Name one thing, ANYTHING. That will put you in the right mood. Do this everyday, as much as you can. Be clear on what you want, and focus your thoughts on this.

If you don't like reality...shift your perspective, and you will create a new one. Have fun!

i have done, it is very difficult to secure enough work to make ends meet. it's all about the money. i want to be free of money, build my own log cabin and fish for and grow my own food.

Here's why I feel so deeply resentful towards the system, that I am as deeply reluctant to serve it:

First off, it is so stressful and monotonous competing with hundreds / thousands of other wannabe slaves, that you are forced to constantly upgrade skills and sell yourself more (beg harder). It is degrading to beg to be someone else' slave.

Second, if you manage to get an interview, you are heavily interrogated.

Third, if you make it through the interrogation procedure they now own you and they can talk to you like shit and force you to slave away as hard as they like. Not so? Disobey your boss or argue back, you will find yourself penniless and homeless in no time.

Fourth, you are forced to work with people who may be absolute assholes and there's no escape.

Fifth, you take the stress of a job home with you and your mind is swamped with work schedules. so you cannot truly relax - ever.

Sixth, all of your freedoms are removed from the moment you leave school to the moment you retire. You are forced to work 8 hours per day - Monday to Friday - until your youth has gone forever. In fact, your freedoms are removed as soon as you start school.

Seventh, you are deceived into thinking that you are entitled to two days of freedom, but you are so stressed from the previous 5 days of slavery you just want to sleep in on Saturday. Then you spend Saturday night getting drunk to blot out your miserable existence. Sunday is spent sleeping in and feeling like shit from a hangover.

Eighth, constant toiling away and being handed heavy schedules age you prematurely, not to mention stressing the immune system.

Ninth, you cannot live a self sufficient lifestyle legally independent of the system because if you build a log cabin anywhere, so you can fish / hunt or grow crops for food, the system's henchmen will destroy your home and imprison you.

Tenth, you are a tax generating automaton who exists to swell the moneyboxes of the elite.
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There you have it -- the big pink elephant is not staring you in the face from the far corner of the room, it is sitting on you and crushing you with it's enormous weight, yet the world is in collective denial over this very obvious fact. Why? Because slavery is all they understand.

That's why I hate the system and refuse to serve it.

Work towards what?

Retirement funds that they just take and manipulate and devalue when it suits them?

Retire in you finally paid off home until they decide your house taxes go up more than you pension and then they just take it!

It's like you never get to retire cause when you do they just change the game and even take your death benefits from your kids!

Get a job you like. Lmfao. The world moves so fast now that when your finished school your knowledge is obsolete! Or they over saturate the market with other slave drones untill the wage you where promised is gone to hundreds of thousands Next you have to pay again in order to keep up yet your already in debt to them for thousands then you finish that and so did everyone else

It's a fleeting fancy that's ends with screwing your fellow man in order to get ahead

A rich man will hardly be accepted into heaven for this reason! A rich man gets that way on the backs of others

All good people do now is exist

Then stop working for other people and work for yourself

Here's why I feel so deeply resentful towards the system, that I am as deeply reluctant to serve it:

First off, it is so stressful and monotonous competing with hundreds / thousands of other wannabe slaves, that you are forced to constantly upgrade skills and sell yourself more (beg harder). It is degrading to beg to be someone else' slave.

Second, if you manage to get an interview, you are heavily interrogated.

Third, if you make it through the interrogation procedure they now own you and they can talk to you like shit and force you to slave away as hard as they like. Not so? Disobey your boss or argue back, you will find yourself penniless and homeless in no time.

Fourth, you are forced to work with people who may be absolute assholes and there's no escape.

Fifth, you take the stress of a job home with you and your mind is swamped with work schedules. so you cannot truly relax - ever.

Sixth, all of your freedoms are removed from the moment you leave school to the moment you retire. You are forced to work 8 hours per day - Monday to Friday - until your youth has gone forever. In fact, your freedoms are removed as soon as you start school.

Seventh, you are deceived into thinking that you are entitled to two days of freedom, but you are so stressed from the previous 5 days of slavery you just want to sleep in on Saturday. Then you spend Saturday night getting drunk to blot out your miserable existence. Sunday is spent sleeping in and feeling like shit from a hangover.

Eighth, constant toiling away and being handed heavy schedules age you prematurely, not to mention stressing the immune system.

Ninth, you cannot live a self sufficient lifestyle legally independent of the system because if you build a log cabin anywhere, so you can fish / hunt or grow crops for food, the system's henchmen will destroy your home and imprison you.

Tenth, you are a tax generating automaton who exists to swell the moneyboxes of the elite.

There you have it -- the big pink elephant is not staring you in the face from the far corner of the room, it is sitting on you and crushing you with it's enormous weight, yet the world is in collective denial over this very obvious fact. Why? Because slavery is all they understand.

That's why I hate the system and refuse to serve it.

Hey OP, I believe the system you're looking for exists. It's called Africa.

Feel free to move your lazy, whining, scrounging, sorry ass over there. You'll feel quite at home in your mud hut I'm sure.

This is life. It is our lot in life to work and struggle. It's just how it is. Ice is suffering" is the Buddha's first teaching.

Such complaints are useless. It's like, " my kidneys hurt. Why do I have kidneies?" what saves us is the compassion on others and the love of our families. You can also lose yourself in contemplative absorption within your work. If you are lucky to have a job even! Otherwise that's just the way it goes. I'm sorry for your pain, have a beer and cheer up... Life doesnt last forever.

Here's why I feel so deeply resentful towards the system, that I am as deeply reluctant to serve it:

First off, it is so stressful and monotonous competing with hundreds / thousands of other wannabe slaves, that you are forced to constantly upgrade skills and sell yourself more (beg harder). It is degrading to beg to be someone else' slave.

Second, if you manage to get an interview, you are heavily interrogated.

Third, if you make it through the interrogation procedure they now own you and they can talk to you like shit and force you to slave away as hard as they like. Not so? Disobey your boss or argue back, you will find yourself penniless and homeless in no time.

Fourth, you are forced to work with people who may be absolute assholes and there's no escape.

Fifth, you take the stress of a job home with you and your mind is swamped with work schedules. so you cannot truly relax - ever.

Sixth, all of your freedoms are removed from the moment you leave school to the moment you retire. You are forced to work 8 hours per day - Monday to Friday - until your youth has gone forever. In fact, your freedoms are removed as soon as you start school.

Seventh, you are deceived into thinking that you are entitled to two days of freedom, but you are so stressed from the previous 5 days of slavery you just want to sleep in on Saturday. Then you spend Saturday night getting drunk to blot out your miserable existence. Sunday is spent sleeping in and feeling like shit from a hangover.

Eighth, constant toiling away and being handed heavy schedules age you prematurely, not to mention stressing the immune system.

Ninth, you cannot live a self sufficient lifestyle legally independent of the system because if you build a log cabin anywhere, so you can fish / hunt or grow crops for food, the system's henchmen will destroy your home and imprison you.

Tenth, you are a tax generating automaton who exists to swell the moneyboxes of the elite.

There you have it -- the big pink elephant is not staring you in the face from the far corner of the room, it is sitting on you and crushing you with it's enormous weight, yet the world is in collective denial over this very obvious fact. Why? Because slavery is all they understand.

That's why I hate the system and refuse to serve it.