Ambition once came with a promise: a home, a salary, progress and fulfilment. What happens when that promise is broken? Meet the women who are turning their backs on consumerism, materialism and burnout

Ambition once came with a promise: a home, a salary, progress and fulfilment. What happens when that promise is broken? Meet the women who are turning their backs on consumerism, materialism and burnout

  • @stringere@leminal.space
    2•8 months ago

    Thank you for giving voice to years of frustration from feeling like I was screaming into the void.

    Not sure where you grew up but the suburban midwest was/is a nightmare for thinking, rational, empathetic humans.

    • @stoly@lemmy.world
      1•8 months ago

      Suburban south Puget Sound. It’s filled with angry alcoholics who never had a life or a real chance and just vote Republican.

      I now am in a nice apartment in one of them there anarchic cities of whatever they were called during Lockdown, working for a university and living a life that my family hates.

      • @stringere@leminal.space
        2•8 months ago

        I miss Seattle. For 9 years I finally got to feel sane.

        Moved back to the midwest for good reasons but believe me we’re getting back out as soon as we can.

        You really described it well:

        t’s filled with angry alcoholics who never had a life or a real chance and just vote Republican.

        And no amount of reason or logic will get them to believe they’re being duped.

        • @stoly@lemmy.world
          1•8 months ago

          And no amount of reason or logic will get them to believe they’re being duped.

          Worse: they have been trained to act in their own disinterest, dressing it up in terms like “personal responsibility”. They are basically the monkeys dancing by the organ grinder.