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I didn’t register this plan as a bad one, a sad one. It made the “I need to set aside my feelings and use my willpower” part of my brain very active, a dominant way of being. The pain in my legs from being on my feet all day was just the *way life was*. And I was grateful! -

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I’d grown up reading stories throughout history and was intimately familiar with how new and different my current lifestyle was. I was happy I wasn’t working in coal mines, or under threat of war, and that there was no famine. I viewed it as a normal feature of human existence-

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That you had to set aside your feelings and use willpower. This is the way everyone had to live in history, this was a default of existence - and anything more than this was luxury. I felt hyper aware of how unusual our state of civilization was, how luxurious my life was already

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And this is why I feel a little confused when people get really angry at stuff like the minimum wage, or having to work two jobs and live in a shitty apartment. People are complaining at working conditions that I went through with actual gratitude.

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Having low income and low living standards might not be as upsetting to people as having to give a majority of your waking life to earning this low income and low living standard. Even daily wage laborers in India have a working day of 10hrs

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Something _is_ out of place in the system if people have to work 2-3 jobs to meet basic needs Maybe it's the wages, maybe it's the prices, maybe it's range of consumption, but trying to cover over this with your story of personal rugged individualism is naive and unfair.