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Men, what are some harsh truths you come to realise when you are 30+?
Family is everything. ❤️
Work is there only to help you survive.
Try to be a good person. Help your neighbours and local hospitals, and fire brigade.
Give to the homeless. Even if they drink alcohol. Compared to you, they have nothing else, and you are wealthy.
Politics is evil. People always have excuses for politics. Those who like or love politics get angry when someone does not follow.
Don't watch too much news.
Stay away from conspiracy theories. They are not good for your health over a long period of time.
Stop following populism. Read more books. 📚 Learn to speak clearly. Reading really helps. Stop swearing.
You are responsible for everything you do. Other people are not to blame. Unfortunately, this upsets some people.
And, most importantly, practice empathy. Try. It works over time.
I agree with it all, except that politics is only evil.
People have been taught to avoid politics, and this is the reason our government is in shambles. Politics is merely people making decisions about YOUR life. By disengaging, you allow corporations, well-off people, and groups with agendas to legislate rules that affect your life, usually in negative ways.
It is to the point where now, 90% of congress are bought off corporate legislators, allowing billionaires to pay less taxes than you, which means less money for trains, for schools, for hospitals, for critical infrastructure, and less regulation on companies who have proven time and time again that they will abuse their workers, put them in harms way, poison customers, release products that kill or maim, enforce schedules that cause pain and suffering, deliver products by train on civil war era braking systems, maintain airplanes that fall apart in the skies, pay workers wages that do not allow them to buy food or pay rent, and take away your ability to protect yourself from them - all in pursuit of every growing profits. Profits that will never be satiated and which require taking more and more from you
Books are banned, divisions are sowed, minorities are attacked, protest is regarded as violence, healthcare is a luxury, housing is a luxury, homeless are despised, education is a mortgage, social security is attacked, and safety nets are cut. All to benefit the wealthy, and their corporations.
This is a direct result of voter apathy and disengagement. You don’t have to love politics, or hate politics, but a democracy requires participation, or else it becomes an oligarchy.
Until citizens united is reversed, and people realize their wants and needs will never be addressed by a representative who accepts donations from a corporation, with contrary wants and needs, we will continue empowering the few, and weakening the many.
We absolutely require a population who understands what their representatives’ are fighting for, more importantly who they are fighting for, and we need them to understand that these people fighting against their interests can be removed from office, and must be.
You can’t obsess over politics for your own sanity, but you have to vote, and have to fight for your rights.
That’s just a byproduct of capitalism and capitalism IS the very best form of economics ever.