I quit work at 35 because there are so many things I wanted to do, and.paid work wasn’t one of them, am now 58.

Alas now there are just more things I want to do.

Donald Trump?

Hates too strong a word for me, walled garden is unacceptable, completly unacceptable.

I get 1/2 my apps from F Drod.

No… In my defence…

“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”– Naomi Shulman

I don’t work I quit work at 35 and am now 58. It takes time Toni shacke from the societal indoctrination Misha bleeding work as worthy. I live off a small investment income from investments made decades past (I was buying shares from age 19 and have always been frugal growing up poor, I also own my own modest cottage in a small rural village) Those investments have only grown through no particular perspicacity of mine.

Eventually you can come to understand that freedom is and do what you want. My only regret ? Not quitting earlier, those years were wasted and I can’t get them back.

Myanmar?

Well, as an Australian I’d hope they’d not come here either, happy to have refugees and help then out as much as possible but not Americans.

As to brain drain, you come from a country that’s destroying the planet, acts like a spoiled child when it doesn’t get it’s way, (look at the reaction to the ICC arrest warrants for Israel) you’ve created a monster that has little to admire, the “brains” that created all that will hopefully stay there.

This is a country that has threatened to invade the Hague if any US person or allly is indicted by the ICC for example. Churlish doesn’t even begin to describe it, stay there.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-becomes-law

Several I never comment on or engage with, several I comment on and very few topics I engage with.

Same thing happened to RFK Jr

I quit at 35 and am now 58. My only regret was being too afraid to do it earlier.

How ? I long ago was able to to differentiate needs from wants.

I do own my own small house. Each year I have excess funds, some is rolled over and reinvested, some is donated to charity, because the small investments I do have earn way more then my needs.

I’d consider euthanasia if I had to return to work because of some unforseen reason, after deaades of freedom Arbeit macht frei is prison.

Why do they not want to ? Ego and or indoctrination mainly. (Work itself has worth for being work, power over others, you’re an attention whore and fear obscurity, or some combination ). There’s also a stigma with being retired.

I retired at 35 and am now 58. My only regret was not stopping earlier.

Economists don’t rrally think we need food.

https://theintercept.com/2023/10/29/william-nordhaus-climate-economics/

Ignorance of systems has its way of plowing forward, juggernaut-like. Nordhaus has opined that agriculture is “the part of the economy that is sensitive to climate change,” but because it accounts for just 3 percent of national output, climate disruption of food production cannot produce a “very large effect on the U.S. economy.” It is unfortunate for his calculations that agriculture is the foundation on which the other 97 percent of GDP depends. Without food — strange that one needs to reiterate this — there is no economy, no society, no civilization. Yet Nordhaus treats agriculture as indifferently fungible.

He should have eaten it. :)

Maybe they can send the poop emoji in reply if Meta does reaches out?

Hitler liked dogs and said we shoukd be kind to them.

There seems to be more competition, not much for Masto, lots for Lemmy, or so it seems.

I was interested in Firefish but it seems to have fizzled out. Gotosocial looks to have promise.

Same here, using the US backed SWIFT system seems absurd. I’d be mindful of the shit around Crypto though, it’s why I like

https://nano.org/en

As always converting to fiat will be the issue.

Why is Session always mentioned ? It’s an Australian company, in a land with zero constitutional oversight I’d be more inclined to think its a honeypot then a privavy focused chat app. Anom springs to mind as an example.

So, same same every other nation state ?

Needs socialised and subsidized; food, water, shelter, healthcare for example

Wants, not socialised

An example?

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/10/the-social-housing-secret-how-vienna-became-the-worlds-most-livable-city