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johnnyFive  ·  2488 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pesky whippersnappers are now destroying Applebees, apparently.

I can't remember if I've posted this on hubski anywhere, but I've been thinking about my lot in life, like you do. One of the dangerous things we inherited from our parents (or at least that I did) was an unspoken expectation in terms of financial independence. With an actual mortgage, a mortgage's worth of student loans (actually more, now), and a kid, that's not a realistic expectation.

I used to get kinda bummed out by this. Once I realized that it was a case of expectations, though, I got to starting to change them. I also realized that every refusal to be a consumer is itself an act of defiance. So fuck 'em.