Fruitless Endeavor

Recent local and personal events suggest that obsessive frugality is a complete waste of time, a fruitless endeavor. Line item cost reductions are quickly neutralized by cost increases in other line items. The net result is always the same - costs keep going up anyway. In the end, a lot of calculated effort ends up being meaningless.

There’s just no way to stop the “highway robbery” perpetrated by the moneychangers onto the masses. They control money & wealth, so the outcome is always rigged. The only solution is increase the commitments to wage slavery, but that doesn’t always produce the desired result.

The best anyone can do is keep plodding along until poverty, homelessness, or death ensues (sometimes in that exact order). There is nothing that any peon can do to effectively increase net worth. The whole “system” is rigged.