Why is it the norm ?

It isn't terrible for everyone. The few who don't have the existence you describe make the rules and wouldn't have it any other way.
It isn't terrible for them and they don't care about us!

1=ask yourself where you are now
2=than ask yourself where you want to go
3= than ask what is the best way to get where i want to go
4=then, every night before you go to bed ask yourself "did i get closer to where i want to go today"and hope the answer from your brain is yes.
5=if you get a yes answer,you are on your way to a wonderful life.
6=but most important of all is to enjoy the journey.

That sounds even worse

All anyone needs is some small patch of existence to call their own

step 1=you are where you are
step 2=just get a goal in life and imagine it is coming soon.(and it will come soon if you imagine it correctly)
step 3= go out and get it.
remember if you can imagine it ,you can get it,its the law of attraction.it never fails.(check out the law of attraction if you doubt me)

My wife and I have to work hard to provide for ourselves and our children but life is what you make of it, you'll enjoy it a whole lot better if you don't constantly bemoan your lot and blame it on others.

Whatever your life is, make the most of it because that is all there is. The Pie in the Sky when you Die consists of dust and ashes!

this thread needs a smiley face.[
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Can you spot the guy who does not believe in the law of attraction.

Compare your life to the life of most people from previous periods in history then tell us you're hard done by.

Brassneck is right, you need to engage "space star ordering" and "the power of wishy thinking".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sarJtKM-Ku4

Remember that those in power dip bread in philosophical doctrine that most dont understand simply to use it as vindication of something they suggest we all agreed on.
Well truth is they misquote it continually, and 'we' didnt ever agree upon it.

The minority of individuals who determined the route of humanity have been far and away out numbered by those who were adversely effected by it yet are born into man made bondage.

read the works for yourself so you cant determine truth from lies and live your life accordingly.

*can

no worries Zealot,AI is coming,after that you wont need to go to work as there will be no work

I agree with OP , as for Life Quality it is basically Down to 2 people Having a Shag and who they Decided to have a shag with
Infact had they chosen the Back door route ,we would not be here ,None of us asked to be here ..

We are indeed spat out into this moral trap without ever applying for such a position.

But what if the trick is actually discovering the secret of life itself as being the strength to rebel against the preconceived 'rules' that are imposed upon us?
We are encouraged to seek pleasurable desire and security within an environment where these actions tend to have negative effects on others (for every action there is an equal and opposite re-action)
One man's greed is another's poverty.

Well what if the nature of defending oneself from pain at all costs is the very problem?
Perhaps the 'magic' occurs when we actively seek out to bare as much suffering as one can reasonably handle, and in effect absorb the collective grief, like vaccines use the very virus to strengthen?
Humanity it seems to me has become weak and easily lead and as a result can never see past the 'me'. This is by design I believe, the un-natural concoctions created by those who need it this way to have us turn against each other.

I dont know about others, but I have experienced times when simply knowing an honest and virtuous act has left me emotional to such an extent that no product or monetary gain ever has.
I dont know what it is, but it certainly exists.

Was feeling down in the dumps then I read this cheers ZEALOT picked me up no end !

Compare your life to the life of most people from previous periods in history then tell us you're hard done by.


I don't know, sometimes I think it may have been better to have been alive in previous periods of history.  Obviously not the very poor but I sometimes imagine you'd get  more life satisfaction spending more time doing some physical labour or your days having being spent having to be productive because things like cooking, cleaning, washing took a lot longer.  Instead we spend time watching tv, reading about whats happening 3,000 miles away and waiting for some black and white text being updated on a screen from randoms we've never met before.

no worries Zealot,AI is coming,after that you wont need to go to work as there will be no work

They probably said that about the wheel.

Tbf I live a life to be envied by some, don't work no money worries house paid etc etc but I still can gets bouts of depression. Sitting on your ar$e isn't all it's cracked up to be

It’s the poison within civilisation, that no matter where you turn there is the shadow of somebody’s ill intent for personal gain.

You could argue life created competition in the form of nature killing nature, but people seem to have lost sight of the debates on this subject; that the nature of the human was as a social and rational animal.
It’s the pitiful scrambling for money that creates the diseased mind and this becomes depression.

Most people won’t ever reach their potential because they have been broadsided by people who want this way so they can feel superior by comparing their pile to the majority’s scrapings.