Why?

[FunInTheSunParticipant 8283]

The deal: go to school, get a job, work your ass off for 30 to 40 years, get married, procreate, spend huge amounts of money on your wife and kids, get laid whenever she’s in the mood, spend additional money on your kid’s college education and wedding, and then try to retire without losing your pension to some bumbling hedge fund manager.

If you’re lucky, you stay unhappily married and spend your free time in the garage tinkering with your sports car or hanging out with your friends (so you can avoid listening to your wife complain). If you’re not lucky, you get a divorce and spend 18 years to eternity making child support and alimony payments.

My society expects me to just sign on the dotted line without reading the fine print. I say, “NO DEAL,” and walk away.

"I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win-and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to your outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind. I pronounced it. The word was ‘No.’" (Atlas Shrugged)

[Mr. ManParticipant 2916]

FunInTheSun wrote:

My society expects me to just sign on the dotted line without reading the fine print. I say, “NO DEAL,” and walk away.

Bingo! Bing-f~~~ing-go! Having said that, you are more enlightened than 99% of them men walking the streets of western society. Good on you. More of this.

[KeymasterKeymaster]

Today I was standing in line at the DMV. My version of hell on Earth. At 2 locations. One for my car registration and another for my motorcycle endorsement. Wasted +4 hours of my life today and it was a test of my patience watching how inefficient it all is. Plus all the grumpy faces and attitudes behind the counter.

I HATE the DMV. It’s like Chinese water tortue on my nerves.

It sparked a similar thought…. “WHY?”

I looked around and none of it seemed to bother anyone else, but you have to line up, take a number from a front desk c~~~ with a p~~~-poor attitude, wait for god knows how long, take hours off of work, sit there like a lump, and wait for your number to be called like a chicken waiting for slaughter. … just to get a stupid sticker that costs $80 or some s~~~.

I go grocery shopping at 10Pm on a Wednesday. In and out in 10 minutes. Everyone else goes Saturday morning and the line ups are enough to make me heave. I take side streets instead of sitting in traffic on crowded motorways. I go to the movies on a Monday night instead of a weekend for the same reason, and I practically have the theatre to myself. On long weekends I stay home instead of sitting in traffic all day.

Have always preferred to do the OPPOSITE of “most people”.

When I was 17, I was in the car with my Mom in heavy traffic into the city for some appointment. I remember telling her I will NEVER do what these people are doing. 2 hours bumper-to-bumper in each direction. 5 days a week – for decades – just to pay off a mortgage. They buy a house in the suburbs to try and “save money” but over those years, they throw away 20 hours a week and need to by 3 more cars. It never made any sense to me.

That’s why I’m here.

Go to school. Get a credit card. Get a loan to buy a car. Get a student loan so you can go to college. Get a job to pay off that student loan. Get a girlfriend. Buy her s~~~. Get in debt. Get married. Have 2.5 kids. Do exactly the same thing for 35 years to pay your way out of this mountain of debt you began your life in. Get a s~~~ty gold watch. Die.

Thank you, no.

If you keep doing what you've always done... you're gonna keep getting what you always got.

[BlacqueJacqueShellacqueParticipant 6890]

Thank you gentlemen for all of your posts. I appreciate the feedback.

[Anonymous 3]

I tried to play the game like everyone. Finally got fed up and said I’m on my own now. I have more time for combat sports, learning new skills, and getting money now that I got a major hurdle off of my mind.

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