I hate golf btw. | TheaterFire

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Emotional-Catch-2883@reddit

I'm working almost every day all day in an office, my mind preoccupied with what little I yearn to do with my scraps of free time and its infuriating. I look at my co-workers like walking vegetables, they just don't get it. It's still the 80's to them. I just want to live before this all shuts off.

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annethepirate@reddit

I'm trying to get through college so that I can afford to live, and I just met someone who I'm interested in and who's interested in me... but I can't help feeling very afraid. Do I even pursue them with the world getting so bad? I can't financially afford to save them. I really don't know how to go forward right now.

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Emotional-Catch-2883@reddit

I wish I had some personal advice for you. But if you two are interested in each other, I think you should pursue each other. Knowing the state of things in the world, you should do what makes you happy. We're all living on borrowed time. We tend to regret the things we didn't do more than the things we did.

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annethepirate@reddit

Thanks, I really appreciate your comment. I guess I will then. They're going to be going through tough stuff anyway, so I guess we may as well go through it together. I just wish that we could run away to the hills or provide safety for them. Because we only just sort've know each other so I haven't even mentioned collapse. The past couple weeks I pretended it wasn't that bad and life was grand, but you really can't ignore it. (Like geez, I just saw NYC's flooding.... holy cow... even my non-collapse mother says things aren't right now.)

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Confident-Feeling-98@reddit

Then do it

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Bellybutton_fluffjar@reddit (OP)

I don't work anywhere near as much as I did before I became collapse aware. Now I'm fortunate because I don't need a car for work. I chose to live near the centre of my city, so I got rid of my car. No fuel, no insurance, no tax, no maintenance anymore. I've also stopped paying into a pension and generally stopped saving money. (I still have significant savings, where the interest supplements my lifestyle but it's not a lot and I no longer try to grow that pot.) With some other things I've cut back on (I buy second hand clothes, and am a dab hand at repairing appliances, I don't take foreign holidays) I'm able to live comfortably on £30k a year. Which means I don't have to work full time anymore. All this extra free time I use to read, hike, draw, care for people, become active in my local community and spend more time with friends and family. I am immeasurably happier and healthier. I know now that when I go out I'll have no regrets. I know that this isn't possible for lots of people, but have a good look at your life, how you spend your money and see if you can do it. Even if you can reduce your workweek by just one afternoon on a Friday it'll be worth it. We've got such little time left. Give as little of it to capitalists as you can.

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Spartanfred104@reddit

>I don't work anywhere near as much as I did before I became collapse aware. I sure as shit don't, I work just as much as my mediocre wage allows and that's it.

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zzzcrumbsclub@reddit

It's not fault but it is your problem. You have to hate engineers.

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A313-Isoke@reddit

You know you can draw your pension if you're forced out of work for medical reasons which...would be great to have...

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Y-mc@reddit

So is anyone out there actively borrowing shit tons of money and just banking that 20 years from now, there will be no banks?

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Syonoq@reddit

I am seriously considering this. Not for some nefarious purpose, but I want to remodel and harden my house. My plan post CA was to make modest improvements over time. Then I became aware and realize that I don’t need a new deck, I need a new roof, with solar and more storage for food and to fix my drainage for gardening and and and….So what if I can’t pay my (new) mortgage off by the time I retire? 😂

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DarkVandal@reddit

I hope you live in a rural backwood area. Because anything you do in an urban situation will only make you a target first.

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AkiraHikaru@reddit

You my friend, are genius.

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slickneck4@reddit

It’s like timing the market. Mostly impossible. However, you can live large for a short time if times right.

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KenGriffencriminal@reddit

Iii already maxed out my cards and quit my job, kinda just waiting for the cops idgaf anymore lol i stopped paying everything

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teamsaxon@reddit

How are you even paying for food?

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KenGriffencriminal@reddit

Ebt but as soon as they find out im not working that will get cut off too lol

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Bellybutton_fluffjar@reddit (OP)

I probably will, but not quite yet. Maybe in 3-5 years I'll start maxxing out my credit cards.

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saint_abyssal@reddit

Dear lurkers: do not take financial advice from r/collapse.

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zzzcrumbsclub@reddit

Go to economics instead and retire early on your 200k usd year salary.

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Mister_Zalez@reddit

Yeah, I hate golf too

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HammerheadMorty@reddit

Start consolidating assets and building your Millennial Village; the trend where a bunch of millennials are buying land together to do off grid farming and child rearing together (obviously not limited to millennials, just a name for the trend). Then you can enjoy the time you have left with society and the time after with your favourite group of friends

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NyriasNeo@reddit

Me too .. but there are still plenty of stuff, other than golf, to enjoy. Video games. Netflix. Doordash. Amazon delivering all sort of fun, but useless, trinkets.

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deltaboii7@reddit

Books and wine, deer hunting and awesome food...

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NyriasNeo@reddit

Everything i like except deer hunting. Too much work. What kind of wine do you drink? I am a pinot noir person mostly and I am also impartial to Port.

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cire4@reddit

r/FuckGolf

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SamLoomisMyers@reddit

The fire needs to be closer. That's how it is.

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Lilnannerz@reddit

I just scheduled a tattoo appt for a whole leg sleeve today. Fuck it, I'm done putting off "luxuries" and being financially responsible, I'm gonna live and enjoy whatever little time I have left. No point in planning/saving for the future, I'll never afford a house anyways. No plans for kids. If I live long enough to grow old, cool. But if I don't, even cooler! Spoil yourselves now everyone, before things get dire

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BigJobsBigJobs@reddit

Golf is a game for fascists and rich people, usually the same. Hitler played golf.

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Jumpy-Gur-1415@reddit

I play golf, I’m not a fascist and not rich. Golf cost less per year than smoking. So maybe you could target your frustration towards smokers.

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RestartTheSystem@reddit

Hitler hated cigarettes. What does that say about you? /s

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Jumpy-Gur-1415@reddit

I don’t hate cigarettes. What I really hate is hate speech like calling all golfers fascists and associating them with hitler. I’m even puzzled why such statements are not moderated on a subreddit supposedly populated by people with good intentions.

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Kisaragi__Station@reddit

Ah’ I make minimum wage and live in the ghetto and still golf. Guess that makes me a fascist 😂

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Bellybutton_fluffjar@reddit (OP)

It's so ridiculous. "I need 72 football fields worth of space to hit this 2 inch ball around for four hours. Poor people are only allowed if they are cutting the grass."

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collapse1122@reddit

that guy in falling down had it right about golf courses.

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chiyo564@reddit

I was always of a doomer disposition but i think about it every day now

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False_Sentence8239@reddit

I don't know of a more succinct portrayal of our collapse

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ZenApe@reddit

I'm at a golf course in Hawaii right now, and you can see Maui just to the north. Wild times.

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Bellybutton_fluffjar@reddit (OP)

S.S. For the sake of my mental health, I have to take time away from observing The Collapse to spend time enjoying myself. I hate golf though so this is just a metaphor. (Did you know that more land in the UK is used for golf courses than housing?) It is getting increasingly harder though as I'm reminded constantly about how shit everything is getting. Do we still have to write "related to collapse" to satisfy the bot?

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broserp@reddit

This is related to collapse because this is the beginning of the collapse of the emotional state of all mankind. We are in times that mentally we can't comprehend or mentally handle. That is why in mho there are so many mental health issues. As a whole, we are trying to bail out the boat while holes keep getting slammed in it at record speed, this course was set long before we ever showed up.

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jim_jiminy@reddit

Fuck..more land for golf course than for housing?! Sheesh. Not surprised at all.

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whtevn@reddit

The original claim is that it was a difference of 1.1% of the land being used for housing and 2% of the land being used for golf courses, and there is basically a zero percent chance those numbers are accurate at all, as the land used for housing only accounted for land which actually holds the house, and ignores gardens and paths. In general, it's a disingenuous statistic that gets passed around but is not true in any meaningful way. I'm not trying to argue that golf courses are a better or worse use of land than anything else so much as just saying that this statistic is false and should be researched before repeating. Here is a source that shows its work. https://www.ft.com/content/79772697-54e4-32c9-96d7-5c1110270eb2

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jim_jiminy@reddit

Ok, thanks for clearing it up. Saves me some possible future embarrassment.

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StatementBot@reddit

The following submission statement was provided by /u/Bellybutton_fluffjar: --- S.S. For the sake of my mental health, I have to take time away from observing The Collapse to spend time enjoying myself. I hate golf though so this is just a metaphor. (Did you know that more land in the UK is used for golf courses than housing?) It is getting increasingly harder though as I'm reminded constantly about how shit everything is getting. Do we still have to write "related to collapse" to satisfy the bot? --- Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/16v67hw/i_hate_golf_btw/k2p5fzf/

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