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heatherlarson | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 We have something we didn’t have in 2008 😉 

That was a rough one for me. I worked for a giant corporation that furloughed us. We made half for months on end. It was brutal. 

More prepared this go around.
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mleku | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 i wish i was more more prepared... for me at that time i was insulated from the real world in the UBI bubble of australian long term unemployment just before the point at which i started to realise it was never going to change while i lived there... 4 years later i left the country for good, was no scope for me to really become economically mobile

has only taken 12 years to reach the point now where i will likely weather this next storm where before i would have probably sunk into suicidal depression

just mainly hoping to establish something of a tenure as a bitcoin/nostr dev so i can tread water until the economy fully corrects from the current insanity

i'm not so optimistic that i've feathered my nest adequately at this point, i think i should have reconsidered my relocation options sooner when it was easier for me to do it
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heatherlarson | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Our countries are similar… they screw is similarly 😉 

The mistake I made back then was sticking with what I knew like there would be a return or recovery. I just don’t think that happens anymore.
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mleku | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 yeah, it is a corkscrew going downwards, at some point the people are gonna realise they have no more cork to go and flip out, guillotines time
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heatherlarson | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Most do not want the realization because it means they must change and make effort
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mleku | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 yeah, i think that it's coming in the next cycle for them, we are deeper in recession than we were during the great depression by orders of magnitude, worse than the winter of our discontent, tecehnological deflation is hiding it
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heatherlarson | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Problem is, the mainstream kids just don’t see it that way. They don’t try to. They believe what they are taught in high school and by the media. They don’t comprehend the forces affecting their lives.
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mleku | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 at some point reality will pierce the membrane of brainwashing, it is inevitable that eventually the tricks run out of effect, it's the same as how eventually printing more money becomes impossible due to literally mathematics (and wheelbarrows)

speaking of that last one, they have a trick against the appearance of wheelbarrows but the dizzying moves of NGU will show it, that is still to come