by FullTimeSlacker

I've found a lot of many people's time is wrapped up in making sure they have enough money to weather the next shitstorm. The car breaks down, the kid breaks a leg, or the spouse breaks the bad news that she's leaving and taking half of everything and all of your dignity. One little chink in your Savings Account armor and you'll find yourself slipping behind. Now the bills are late, the pantry's empty most of the time, you're starting to get fat because it's cheaper to eat off the dollar menu at McGreasy's, and your gas guage never gets above a half-tank on a good day. You scrape and scrabble until payday comes along only to give it all up for another car payment (for the car that doesn't even drive anymore). So you have to save. You have to work the extra time to make sure that you have enough to cover the inevitable collapse of your carefully balanced stack of bills. You can't buy hardly anything without credit, you need to have credit to get it, and if you mess it up you'll never see a loan again. Problem is, our economic system falls apart if you don't spend constantly, which makes it that much harder to save. Every dollar you spend contributes to your own opression. Of course, you can't STOP spending, especially on the things that make you feel happy: all those mindless entertainments that you barely have time for and therefore relish that much more. Gotta cram in one more hour of teevee, I know it's 1am, but I can get by on just 5 hours of sleep, right? I'll just buy a case of Red Bull on the way in and poison myself into alertness. The harder you work to earn your money the less you get to enjoy it. The less you work the less you make, but you have a lot of time on your hands to worry about how much you don't have, right?

Fuck that.

Work just the bare minimum, cut corners by re-using stuff as often as possible, grow some of your own food, and spend all of your money on marijuana so the official economy doesn't get any of it. While away the bilssfull hours with a hobby that makes you happy and doesn't cost a lot. There's got to be something out there for you. You keep rushing back and forth hoping one day you'll have enough to stop working, but the problem is that "one day" will likely never come, unless you really cut out your fun time, and then maybe by the time you're 75 you'll be able to enjoy being old and falling apart: the best years of your life wasted.

Enjoy your now, because no one can promise you a future.