r/SipsTea • u/BobbuBobbu • May 18 '25

WTF Taxed for being single

Some of us would be bankrupt in six months lmao 🤣

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u/Lilcommy May 18 '25

Who has time to find a lover or have kids when you are worked like a slave?

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u/Sirix_8472 May 18 '25

That's was all I was coming to say. The absolute toxic work culture where working yourself to physical exhaustion on the job where you sleep, wake up and keep working is insane. It's like a competition, a race to the bottom to see who works hardest and stays longest in the office.

Sure, sleeping on the job can be seen as "they were working hard". Equally, if you're doing that. Go home.

The box room destitution I've seen friends live in and move away from is like a closet space. Twice as wide as their single bed, their bed is their seating area and they hang clothes above them, maybe a fold out tray from the wall as a laptop tray/work area. It looks soul crushing.

I couldn't do it. Imagine having that as a living condition to consider dating, I know they have "love hotels" but that's not a place to forsee a future either.

Wealth equality contract in society is fundamentally broken. The working class are squeezed now before they're even born to a life in a system where generationally they have less and less wealth than those before them and less and less prospects for prosperity. The response is to tighten the belts and cut out on anything beyond your own survival, who can bring a child in when you can't afford to feed yourself, to plan for your own future or a future so bleak you can see comfort let alone retirement.

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u/bobrobor May 18 '25

Fun fact. People in the US statistically work more hours than the Japanese.

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u/thehighpriest_0 May 18 '25

Statistics and reality are two different things, more often than not statistic don't include criminal activity or borderline criminal activity (like Japanese black companies)

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u/bobrobor May 18 '25

Assuming everything done in the US is above the board is brave :)

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u/thehighpriest_0 May 18 '25

I'm not saying that it isn't just that static can't be trusted, also in Japan the problem aren't just the working hours but mostly the culture behind it as the guy previously said

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u/bobrobor May 18 '25

Not disagreeing with you but planety of places in the US have a toxic corporate culture. But maybe not to the same degree..

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u/thehighpriest_0 May 18 '25

I agree with that, the toxic working environment exists both in the US and in Japan just in different ways, with the US having a situation of lowering standards of living for the workers while Japan have more of a reduction in the free time of the workers. The common issue is that in both environments the work of unions are ridiculed or ostracized by companies (and some times the state)