Modern life is just too complicated. No wonder there is a mental health crisis.

Those things they are offering you are just options. You can put it off if you want.

As long as you are saving for retirement, have car & home insurance and health insurance, everything else is just extra.

I like your desire to "keep it simple" and think it will pay off for you over the years. Don't overthink this stuff.

I can only dream of the United States going to something like that. But this country is too obsessed with money & material things. Sadly, society judges people by their money & status (i.e. "the haves & the have nots"). Really not a surprise when you have two arrogant Billionaires running this country. Lol

I know like 2 people who have everything together and it's partly because they have amazing jobs that basically give them all the benefits and pay. But even then at least one their children each has their own unique struggles and mental health issues that seem incurable at times. I know a bunch of people in my life who need help, therapy, rehab etc. And in my country it's like applying to college, there's like 10 steps before someone can actually get real help, not just a bed and bunch of nurses talking you out of seppuku and sending you on your way. In my opinion if you need help you should be able to walk into a building and get a room and stay there as long as you need to until you feel safe in your sobriety or shaky mental state. Why everything requires 30 steps to get anything done is the most exhausting part of it all.

Life, whilst being far harder, would have been far simpler back in the day. And not even that long ago. Think back to the latter half of the nineteenth century. No mortgages, you just pay cash on the barrel or rent your property. No health insurance, you just pay cash on the barrel or go to a charity hospital. No phone. No email. No two factor authentication. No car. No student loans. No social security number. No income tax. No credit score. No credit cards. No pension. No 401K. No constantly depreciating currency.

I wish we could have modern amenities along with the simplicity of the past. Best of both worlds. Is there a way?

A close family member of mine had to go into assisted living, there was no choice. She was in bad shape. $8,000 a month. Her husband, a smart man, had been paying for long-term health insurance for a long time. They paid $0 of that $8,000 a month, only paid for extras. I would recommend getting it. As far as the mental health crisis goes most people just need to toughen up.

I need at least two therapy hookers per week to get through each week. It's very difficult, the mental exhaustion is what bites me.

So what's going to happen with the massive increase of dislodged workers where there's no other work for them? Genocide? (that's probably what AI would want?).

Even the concept of Universal Basic Income wouldn't fly with Congress as they would deem it as too costly to support a percentage of Americans that would be looked at by society as "useless eaters."

Nope, more like:

Video Games

Porn

Social Media

Drugs

Alcohol

"Parents".....

50%+ babies born out of wedlock

Social-Emotional-Depression

Homelessness or not leaving the home.

7 million+ able-bodied men choosing not to work and not even seeking employment. Why would they want to do more than just ask for government handouts? It's all part of the plan! Prepare yourselves for being more financially responsible for these deadweight, useless contributors.

What country has the best prosties, in your experience?

Oh man, south/central America 304 districts. You can pay an american bill and have access to as many as you'd like in a single day. Wherever you go though, the ones that aim to please. Red light in Europe, it's hit and miss. The Asians usually give the courtesy of a massage to start.

I wish cities, towns, villages and counties had walls and entry standards to allow people in. Everyone allowed in doesnt have to worry about social welfare.

None of this is more complicated than managing subsistence farming. Modern life just isn’t that demanding so people get complacent.

Yesterday, I ran in the street with 500 people. All of us had numbers pinned to our shirts.

This activity became widespread only about 50 or so years ago.

Life is great.

Abraham lived to be 800.

Earn much as you can for 10 years and go off grid.

There was a lot of war and disease back then but almost no chronic illnesses. Dying of battle wounds, smallpox, and the like were very common, but almost nobody died from things like cancer or Alzheimer's. Pick your poison, I guess.

Therapy hooker that's called a wife steve. Grow up

No. Americans are driven by the principles of capitalism, which is why we have been the most productive nation in the world. People are motivated by money, which will always keep us thinking things up. The difference is that we founded airplanes, AI, smartphones, the internet, PC’s, vaccines, light bulbs, etc. I’ll take those things over using zeros in arithmetic.

Massively ignorant comment