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(DIR) Post #AHhHoRWcdxExcoTA2a by bearwalker@mstdn.social
2022-03-23T07:20:39Z
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Life must have been a lot less complicated before the internet. Trying to manage all these fucking services and providers is crazy. Domains, hosts, netflix, music streaming, online shopping, banking, crypto, parking app, library, audio book streaming, etc. I've been going through all my accounts and deleting the ones I don't need and its actually taken weeks. I have email accounts from the past that I can no longer access that are also full of weird accounts. I'll just have to let that data go stale or something... Anyway, its all overwhelming and I sometimes wonder how any of us function.
(DIR) Post #AHhHuQWnGQoqGmP2Jc by bearwalker@mstdn.social
2022-03-23T07:21:44Z
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Beyond that, the bureaucracy you need to navagate to be successful in life is pretty intense now too. Like, navigating the university system (getting a student loan, applying for scholarships, registering for classes, etc.), managing your credit and raising your credit score (learning the tricks of using a credit card properly), applying for jobs in conoetitove narkets, submitting taxes with multiple employers and precarious work, getting pre-approved for mortgages to buy a home, etc. etc. All of this is simply too much for many people, which is why there's tons of people falling through societies cracks.
(DIR) Post #AHhIOYUaDWz3erjeDI by bearwalker@mstdn.social
2022-03-23T07:27:11Z
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Back in the day you just had your bank, your phone and TV bill, your rent/mortgage, car insurance, taxes and that's it. You didn't need to graduate highschool to get a decent job, housing was cheap as fuck, as were vehicles and energy, and really the only distraction was TV. You couldn't really be doxxed or hacked. You didn't have to check your phone for texts 30,000 times a day.
(DIR) Post #AHhJGnTSjNK5lG4jrs by bearwalker@mstdn.social
2022-03-23T07:36:58Z
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I'm actually not bad at managing all of this, but it bothers me because I see so many folks struggling and these barriers are just way too big for entire populations to manage. Like, the indigenous folks here are basically screwed because we don't have the intergenerational wealth of knowledge of these systems to function in them. I luckily learned a lot from my parents, but even then there was massive gaps (like my parents not going to university). But for others there's been generations of families who've never owned a house, don't have bank accounts, never been to university or even graduated high school, haven't submitted taxes regularily, haven't worked a ton of jobs, etc. A lot of this stems back to residential schools for our people, breaking our existing intergenerational knowledge and the Indian act blocking the ability for our families to intergrate. Now we have hundreds of thousands of people completely screwed.