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At what point did the final straw finally break?

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It doesn't even try to prevent losers who will suffer immensely. It accepts them as a matter of fact. I guess I believed that government must have an element of goodwill to be legitimate, but in capitalism any good that occurs is simply because it's part of a way to profitably screw someone over better. At the end of the day the math demands losers, and that losers become subsequently be more likely to lose even further. It makes you spend your life fighting to not be a loser, rather than living. And then I thought about the ramifications of that fact and how it affects everything around us.

I don't think I ever liked it, but eventually pretending like it was a good thing to please those around me became more and more unbearable. So I did it less and less.