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As someone who has also lived in some of those places. This is always my reaction when I hear that quote. It's like, no, some places really are just filled with assholes. Maybe in …

I also live in Europe (Germany & Austria) and what you're saying is 100% true. I like Europe, but I really miss the positive everything is worth a shot attitude in America. Everyth…

Maybe if we weren't treated like de facto slaves for the rich life would be worth living.

Exactly. Just like the financial crisis. All those big CEOs getting caught on the hook.

This sounds a bit like it could be the prodromal phase in psychosis. I would take this seriously.

Surviorship bias. Your parent is one of the few successful ones, whose niche paid off. You don't hear about the vast majority of researchers & scientists, all smiliarly talented an…

Are you openly bragging about making more money while working half as much as the people you are supposed to be responsible for? I would be embarrassed to write that.

I don't see life slowing down, maybe after some natural or man-made disaster wipes out half the population and most modern infrastructure, but until then, I only see things getting…

Sounds like me. Moved to Austria, feel incredibly poor... but still making 1.5x the average local salary in my mid 20s. Weird experience.

I mean, immigration is never a long-term solution. Immigrants will soon be facing the same issues (high housing, high education costs, lower wages). I reckon in about 20-30 years t…

Thanks for this comment. Needed to read something like this today :)

I think anyone under 30 today who studies or has studied feels immense competition and pressure. I started undergrad in 2011 and already getting in then you needed very good grades…

Yes it is. That 3K is the average young person's only asset and it is just getting eaten by inflation anyway. These people struggle to pay rent each month let alone think about "in…

Nazi Germany declared war on the US first.

I pretty much did this. Don't forget, there are tons of other amazing German authors, just to name a few: Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Schiller, Goethe... I think German literatu…

"They are finally forced to pay attention to the person inside their minds ... and that can be frightening I suppose." Or they start comparing their own internal values to those th…

I agree, but luckily everyone is born with the ability to define what success means to them.

There are good people with high energy too, it isn't something reserved for just the jerks.

We'd have to do a study to know for sure, but as a North American having lived in Western Europe for several years now, I think you are massively overestimating the importance of t…

I had a boss that would try to bully employees into buying expensive cars they couldn't afford, just so they had too much debt and he could exploit them... because they could no lo…