/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>7810534
>That's another thing that sucks about America - our work/life balance is so shitty and we're taught on so many levels that our careers define us. I'm glad I was born here and got to grow up here but I don't want to spend my adult life here.

Unfortunately it's seeping into other countries' mentalities as well, no offence.
I live in a SE European country (imagine a poorer Poland with more gypsies and less jerbs) and the gap between the rich and the poor is pretty much the same as it is in the US, which is a shock to us because we used to be socialists (arseblasted people will say commies, but we weren't) and people lived more or less the same, however bad that may be. Now imagine transitioning to modern capitalism in a few years and what a shock it is for a lot of people. The few that got rich in the process act like nouveau riche dickwads and try to be a bad copy of rich Americans.

My mother is a governess to these two girls, their parents are workaholic lawyers who drag her along even on vacations and can't handle their own fucking children because they "stress them out". Then they got pissy when the kids took to my mum and prefer her over their own mother, so they started bribing them and buying their love with sweets and expensive presents.
I wonder, if you care about your career so much then why have children in the first place? But if you tell them that they will call you lazy and a "dirty commie, it's your fault you don't have a job because you don't want to work". I'm sure you know the drill.

But yeah, the American lifestyle was pretty much forced on us and even in schools some children get new iPhones and personal chauffeurs while others don't have enough for lunch and are shunned for it, so the children are conditioned from youth to give up everything they have for status and material goods.