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One of them was working really hard on getting two college degrees and finding out the hard way that employers don’t give a fuck about those and that networking and sheer luck are the most important factors.
My mom died and suddenly certain family members turned against me. They were so nice before her death, it really surprised me.
Manipulative, verbally abusing, lying to other family members making me the bad one, turning others against me.
It was so fucked, I moved into my car, drove to another state and purchased land to live on.
All that hate they had for me pushed me away, to a place filled with love from all the neighborhood. I’m in love with this new community. It’s beyond any of my dreams.
The rise of fascism
20 years old, self employed manual worker who broke his leg whilst on a night out drinking. The only night’s drinking I’d ever been on before or since.
How quickly I ended up without any money and unable to pay rent was a real eye opener. The bank I’d used all my life denied me a very small loan, I had no friends I felt I could ask for money. Fortunately I live in a country where health care is free, and my sole client kept a place open for me to limp back into when the plaster came off. I managed to stay out of serious debt and kept a roof over my head, but skipped a lot of meals and went without heating for a few months. I’ve never forgotten the feeling of helplessness and that has been a driver for a lot of my life’s spending and saving habits. We take a lot of things for granted, but they can often be taken away so quickly.
It Can’t Happen Here
It can; it is; we have been watching the progression for decades; the vast majority of people didn’t notice because of how slow and creeping and careful it was for most of the preceding several decades.
I used to own a business with employees. It was a small company objectively, but in a small town where I’m from that was a HUGE deal.
The company survived COVID, but due to total chaos with supply chains that happened after covid, my business got on hard times. I saw the writing on the wall, and started firing my employees and closing the company in order not for things to get any worse. I closed my company and landed a job in another company; a never missed a single salary.
It’s absolutely shocking how quickly everyone drops you once they hear you’ve gotten on “hard times”. All my friends, relatives, in-laws… EVERYONE drops you like you’re burning pile of shit. Want to call an old friend for drinks? You’re out of luck, nobody is taking your calls anymore, because now you’re a “failure”.
And let me repeat once again that I haven’t gotten into any BIG trouble, just closed everything down before it did actually SHTF. It’s just the optics of “being in a bad place” and poof everyone’s gone! You’re on your own now.
Have you considered that being a small business owner might not have made you a better person?
What did you do for employees who were fired? Did you try to help them line up another job, or just told them you were downsizing and moved on?
You said this was a big deal for the small town you were in. What was your reputation as a business? Did you get the job done at all costs, or did you start cutting corners towards the end?
I’ve met plenty of small business owners in 20 years of industrial manufacturing. Not a single one of them was a good person. They took the hard decisions they had to make to run their business and applied them to every aspect of their lives. Everything is a fight, and every compromise is a war. Its hard to be friendly to someone who competes with the rest of the world at large.
I had just turned 19 and I was short on rent by 200 dollars thanks to a car repair. Asked my landlord a week prior if I could pay rent a week late. He politely told me if I plan on paying late he will begin the eviction process. I realized then people don’t really give a fuck about you when you’re talking about money.
Huh, I don’t think you can even evict someone legally here if they are just a week late on rent. IIRC it has to be like 2/3 months behind before you can start the process.
Landlords frequently complain about renters having rights.
If any younger people here are ever in this situation the correct answer is always to tell them no they can’t and they should be fucking happy they are even getting a warning that one rent payment is going to be late. A landlord will always fuck you, I have never had one that didn’t, not even the bank.
