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

  • @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.