is it possible for an American to earn money in 2025 or is it only possible to spend money and slowly let the stress consume you

I’m visiting a non-shitty area of the US (or as non-shitty as the US gets) and I’m currently trying to figure out what things I’d want to do while going Outside™, now that I can actually go Outside™, and I’m having some trouble with that

there are game stores but based on the pics they seem to only sell board games and card games and no TTRPG stuff. also I couldn’t afford a new TTRPG book anyway lol they are expensive. I bet at best they only sell D&D and maybe Pathfinder

there are also touristy museums and maybe that’d be worthwhile to do but they seem pretty basic idk

I’ve always wanted to see what a queer bar is like and there are some in this area but I wouldn’t know what to do when I got there lol - I am terrified of talking to anyone. this might be worthwhile though just for the experience

there are arcades but none of them list what games they have so I don’t know how to tell if I’d want to play any of them without paying for the entry fee (or whatever business model they have)

there are also restaurants and bakeries but I don’t want my entire relationship to the outside world to be “eat food”, y’know? I’ve already tried a good number of these and it’s been fun but I want to do other stuff too

it seems like there are a million different things to do Outside™ but they’re all expensive and none of them sound particularly fun compared to what I can do on my computer idk. also 95% of them are aimed at basic white people lol

do y’all think there’s any chance of me getting a tech job in 2026? like should I even be spending energy considering that, or should I figure something else out?

ideally I want something remote so that I can use the money to escape my transphobic-ass state, but I don’t know what that would be other than tech work, and the American tech industry is imploding right now

capitalism forces us to compete with each other for the right to survive

and then we hate our fellow workers for out-competing us because capitalism is giving them table scraps instead of us

they should make a maid cafe that sells bubble tea and call it Boba & Booba

There are things I like about the Persona games, but some topics I do not feel like they handle well. I bounced off of Persona 5 because I did not vibe with the overall culture around sexual assault. We have been playing through Persona 4 together, and most of it has been fun, but we didn't enjoy how they handled stuff like the beauty pagent. So my question is, should I play Persona 5 with my sister once we finish Persona 4?

Boosts are welcome.

chat I have this revolutionary idea where if a company wants to hire a worker to do labor for money, they post this thing called a “job ad” and then people apply for that job. and then people go through a process called “interviewing” where a skilled worker at that job determines if the job applicant would be skilled at doing the job too

it’s kinda like the job postings we have now but the difference is that a job posting is fake but a job ad would be real. with a job ad the goal would be to hire the most skilled worker they can find. but with a job posting obviously the goal is to stroke the ego of a middle manager who gets to “interview” people for 1 hour at a time and act smug and condescending to them while asking weird vague invasive questions about the applicant’s life and personality, which have nothing to do with their ability to perform labor

another important difference is that if you apply to enough job ads you will eventually be hired, because the goal is to hire workers. whereas if you apply to job postings you will get automated rejection emails 3-7 months later

the idea is that people who are skilled at doing labor will be allowed to eat and access medical care and have certain basic human rights in the United States

*hands you a tf potion*

hey drink this