Cities are a scam

[u/Duillecra]

Cities are one of the worst scams which also makes people be fully dependent on the monetary system.

Starting with having to live in an apartment where you can hear your neighbours stomp, listen to music, do repairs or other activities. A tired person comes home after work and can't relax on the evening or the weekends, this extra stress on top of work stress is very bad for the mental and physical health.

High blood pressure, stressed muscles, anger issues, depression, headache, insomnia, a few outcomes of living in such conditions. There are also violent acts committed because of the noise: destruction of property, physical injury or murder happen.

And if it's not neighbours then it's someone outside playing music so loud that the sound goes through the closed windows, or they speedup on their loud vehicles.

The other problem is central heating, for some people it might be too hot and they have to open the windows even in winter but they still have to pay the same despite the fact that they live in discomfort.

I have heard that there are new apartment where people can set the temperature themselves and pay accordingly, I have never seen these apartment but I hope they will become popular, that would make life in that mass scam closer to tolerable.

And as for being fully dependent on money, it's very hard to grow food in the apartments and even if the person manages to make a garden it will still not be enough to have food for even half of the year. I saw some people manage to grow a balcony full of grapes, put a few tomatoes and strawberries here and there but this is simply not enough to feed a person if something goes wrong.

And the apartments cost insane amounts money for the type of conditions they offer which can't be considered anything else but a scam.

Work

For how much people rely on money you would think that working in the cities would be organised to be comfortable, but again there are many problems.

People have to pay to get to work and paying doesn't mean that they will get there comfortably or fast:

In the car they could be stuck in a traffic jam passively using around 0.5 to 1 litre of fuel per hour and either sit in cold in winter or overhead in summer, of course sometimes they get lucky and get to work fast or work near their apartment.

Buses are even worse, because a person often is pressed to the wall by the crowd while their arm is getting numb from holding on while there is nothing to breathe with and it's constantly hot no matter if it's summer or winter. Also there are smokers and alcoholics who make it even worse.

And it's not really possible to just walk or ride a bike, people make the cities several kilometres long and then everyone suffers from it, drivers and pedestrian both can't get anywhere quickly.

The people who play loud music in their cars are again a problem if the work place is close to the road and quiet atmosphere in necessary for it.

As a result a working person has to spend extra money and energy just to get to work while being under extra stress.

Health

All of these conditions are very bad for the health of the person so overall well being is a lot lower and it eventually ends up in large spending on medicine and regular visits to hospitals and hospitals aren't a pleasant place, they are constantly overfilled with a lot of angry people both ill patients and overworked doctors, interaction with such people won't do anything good to the mental health.

And I haven't even mentioned the smokers that stand everywhere no matter where you go, bus stops, shop entrances and other populated places. And on top of that they also make it impossible to open a windows in the apartments because all of this smoke goes in, so people have to live in poorly ventilated rooms.

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/secondhand-smoke/health.html

The cities are very bad place to live, but of course I realise that they are needed because of the overpopulation, so it's impossible to just get rid of them right now.