Work Reform

"Money doesn't buy happiness". Absolutely true. Look at all the miserable wealthy billionaires and trillionaires.

Money, however, does ENABLE happiness by warding off fear, despair, hopelessness and all other crap.

In our current system and how late stage capitalism is decimating most of us, money literally solves everything

Therapy is fantastic, but any therapist will tell you that for it to have lasting effects, you need at least 12 months of continual attendance.

Now ask yourself how many people can afford weekly therapy sessions for a year. Where I live the cost would be about 3.5 median paychecks.

Alternate plan: do away with people's need to have money to live by dealing with the broken system that puts them in that position.

With money, I could even get therapy!

I just got a full time job and health insurance, after being without for a while.

My mental health is spectacular now. From the day I got my offer, I’ve felt cool as a cucumber. My dumbass ex also accidentally transferred me several thousand dollars, so just the feeling of having a nest egg and safety is like the world being lifted off my shoulders. Therapy never did anything even close.

Or just, wealth/stability. So many people would give away money to have their own vegetable garden attached to a multi-generational home - they can then figure the rest out from there.

Humans are different and have different interests but one thing common to all of us is that we enjoy:

• being outdoors
• exercising
• having community
• learning skills and creating things

There are actually some people who successfully self therapise. This is hard to do, so it's actually a testament to just how many people out there need therapy, which reflects how unhealthy modern life is for humans.

The core idea of the tweet is correct - people can heal mental health sounds when given the right environment to. We live in a time where almost nobody is in the right environment for this, which requires what I listed before (healthy community, access to green space, purpose and recreation). This is basic stuff, I think it's covered by Maslow's hierarchy of needs - which, ironically, is often shown to business students in universities, but then disregarded by the capitalists who rule this world.

Maybe by extension it's time.

Having had kids I've really learned that I need time to just fritter away. Down time. Not for chores or for date night or for my hobbies or for tv.

Just time to do nohing important and watch the day while away.

Sadly I need a lot of this time. Or maybe I'm just running a huge deficit so it seems like I need a lot.

Reminds me of https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/02/12/money-money-everywhere-but-not-a-cent-to-spend

Specifically:

In this case, it was that – well, the guy is a minimum wage worker from inner city Detroit. He didn’t tell me exactly how much money this debt was, but from a couple of numbers he mentioned I got the impression it was in the ballpark of $5000. That might not seem like an attempt-suicide level of money to some people, but to this guy with his job the chance of ever paying it off seemed low enough that it wasn’t worth waiting and seeing.

So what bothered me is that psychiatric hospitalization costs about $1,000 a day. Average length of stay for a guy like him might be three to five days. So we were spending $5,000 on his psychiatric hospitalization, which was USELESS, so that we could send him out and he could attempt suicide again because of his $5,000 debt which he has no way of paying off. And probably end up in the hospital a second time, for that matter.

Therapy would be great... if I had money.

I think money would solve about 90% of my problems, which would likely do wonders for my mental health.

Money gives you the freedom to choose your job. If you have enough backup money, you will basically not let your employer bully/mobbing you, because you can resign. When we normal people talk about money, we don't mean billions; we need money that basically gives us freedom of choice for basic needs and helps us survive on bad days(2-3 years of unemployment)

Also the Therapist: So anyways I started billin $300/h

Fiat currency and power. Two concepts that exists entirely in our minds. Two concepts that ruin the species. Maybe we arent intelligent afterall...

People don't realize this but USD(money) is how we Access world wide economy ( and each other), so depriving someone of money is basically cutting them off from society.

"money can't buy happiness but it sure can pay the rent"

I'd correct that to:

Money helps up to a point, and everything going beyond that needs therapy.

I’d suggest one better: stop gating the provision of subsistence behind financial transactions.

Pretty much what I try to tell my parents. I don't need therapy. I know exactly what stresses me out and it's this extended fall from grace from saving up for my own house to taking up any gig in my ability to keep the lights on in the span of 3 years. The ladder was pulled up and they actively pushed me out of the floor.

Even just $1000 would be extremely helpful to most Americans, but $10,000 would be transformative for MANY people.

Limit the amount of assets everyone can have to 1M-10M and tax inheritance, so peoples start position is drawn more equally. So the money will end up by people who start with none thru the government thru taxes. Solved next