u/whiteowl76

in the modern world with complex networks of global communication, relations and trade where so many of the things we need and use in daily life are manufactured overseas, how would anarchism function in a huge, non homogeneous country like the US? how would global relations be facilitated? not to say i love politicians and diplomats but how would international trade and relations with non anarchist societies be handled? obviously the goal is a classless world without borders but if anarchy is able to gain a foothold in one place before others how would they keep things going?

Fuck you. I hate this line of thinking and saying that you just have to pull yourself by the bootstraps and work hard and you'll get ahead. I have done everything "right" and "what you're supposed to do" I'm 27 years old, I have held a job consistently since I was 15, worked my ass off to put myself through college with as little debt as I possibly could, I managed to move out on my own at 19, I have a full time job in my degree field (environmental sciences) and none of that changes the fact that I don't get paid enough and the cost of living in my area has almost doubled in the last 6 years alone but I can't afford to leave. I can't afford to stay working where I do but everything in my job field is either LTE or pays nothing, not to mention the precarious nature of federal jobs in it. My choice is either to struggle on and hope to eventually land something decently paid or go back to school, put myself in more debt and still have no guarantee of finding anything in that new field. I pulled myself by the bootstraps while the ladder is being pulled up above my generation, and then older people criticize us like it's some moral failure that we aren't getting ahead and brag about how they were able to make it on so much less of a wage. It's fucking infuriating and I despise how Gen Z and Millennials are looked down upon for being thrown to the wolves and expected to thrive.