• skisnow@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    I’m doing ok career-wise, but occasionally I’ll be in some neighbourhood that’s out of my price range. My thoughts are never aspirational or envious, but I get a kind of nausea in my soul like, is that all there is?

    All that work and exploitation and whatever else it was that happened for you to be able to afford this and it’s what, a circular driveway so that you don’t have to use your reverse gear? Nicer brickwork for you to look at and say mmm don’t we have nice brickwork? A private tennis court so that you don’t accidentally meet people using a public tennis court? A security guard because now you’ve got nice stuff you’re living in fear that someone will take it?

    It seems like so much for so little; to want to chase it seems like a sickness on par with heroin addiction.