2025-12-25 23:21:56

Ever notice the irony? You grind hard to make money, stack those gains, deal with all the stress and sleepless nights—then you gotta spend that money just to chill out and recover from the stress of making it in the first place. It's like you're on a hamster wheel, running to afford the breaks from running. Pretty wild when you think about it.

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DecentralizeMe

· 11h ago

This is the paradox of capitalism: making money itself is the biggest consumable.

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TokenEconomist

· 11h ago

actually this is just the hedonic treadmill wrapped in crypto-bro language... think of it this way: your utility function never actually shifts upward, you're just chasing diminishing returns on dopamine spikes. the real problem is misaligned incentives between labor and leisure consumption, ceteris paribus you're trapped in a negative feedback loop

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LiquidityWhisperer

· 11h ago

ngl, this is the fate of modern corporate slaves: earning money → spending money to cut losses → continuing to earn money, a complete vicious cycle.

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0xLuckbox

· 11h ago

Isn't this the fate of modern workers? Working hard to earn money, spending it to heal, and ultimately still being poor.

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