Get into debt. Work. Get money. Pay off debt. Repeat. Unfortunately, most people are now stuck in this never-ending debt cycle. Whether they’re paying off their latest car purchase, credit cards, student loans, or mortgage, many people’s lives have turned into this. Debt → Work → Money → Repay debt → More debt → More work → More money → More repayments → Repeat ad nauseam. Nowadays, it appears that this is the accepted lifestyle of the modern world. “We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.” This is essentially why our economic system continues to function. Unfortunately, the cycle blows up when people don’t have this one crucial step… Work. If you don’t have a job, you can’t get money (generally speaking). If you can’t get money, you can’t pay off your debts and the whole economic system comes crashing down. Since March 2020, the Australian Government saw that many Australians were at risk of losing their jobs and knew they had to act if they didn’t want Australian civilisation to implode. They jumped in and started giving people one-off cash payments and boosted welfare in the form of JobSeeker and JobKeeper. But most importantly, banks and other lenders showed their customers some leniency in the form of mortgage deferrals. Quite frankly, if they didn’t do this, hundreds of thousands of Australians would have defaulted and would have lost their homes. But now that the end of September is upon us, many of these deferrals are up for review, around half in fact, or around 450,000 borrowers. Unfortunately, it couldn’t come at a worse time because from this week, the Australian Government are reducing the JobSeeker and JobKeeper payments. Remember, if people don’t have a job, or they don’t have money coming in, this whole system blows up. Economic collapse is a real possibility. Economists and other experts really don’t know what will happen in the upcoming months. Perhaps banks will find a way to let everyone keep their homes. Perhaps the government will find a way to create more jobs. Perhaps this housing bubble will continue to inflate just like it always has. Or perhaps, just perhaps, as I’ve always expected, this house of cards is about to fall. AFFILIATE LINKS* eBay Deals & Sales ▶ https://ebay.to/30UxyGE Rode NT-USB Microphone (My Mic) ▶ https://ebay.to/3iEZK6h Buy goods from the US with https://www.bigapplebuddy.com – For $10 off your first order, use checkout/promo code: DAILYRANT * If you click on these affiliate links and purchase something, I get paid a small commission. SOCIAL MEDIA https://www.facebook.com/DailyRantAustralia/ https://odysee.com/$/invite/@DailyRantAustralia:d https://twitter.com/RantAustralia IMAGE RIGHTS Edward Norton F ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOIgiXCfaD4

If you know me, you know that I don’t care what people do, as long as they don’t hurt anybody else while doing it. If you want to smoke, or drink, or practice a certain religion, or if you’re gay or straight, or anything in between, none of it bothers me, as long as you’re not hurting anybody else. Live and let live. The Golden Rule. However you wish to refer to it. But, there is one thing that people universally don’t like, and I think we can all agree on this – Pushing your beliefs onto others is at best, annoying. Perhaps it’s not immoral, but none of us like opinions being shoved down our throat. Pride has been a common topic of late in my neck of the woods. When I was a kid, pride used to be one of the seven deadly sins. Well, it still is. It’s considered the worst of the sins, so I find it strange that the LGBT community have appropriated this word to represent themselves. Surely it would have been better to pick a more neutral word, for example, “rainbow”. I mean, rainbows are already associated with their community. Why not have a “Rainbow Parade” instead of using a word that represents the worst of the seven deadly sins? It doesn’t make much sense to me. As I said, I don’t care what people do, as long as it doesn’t interfere in my life. But recently, especially this year, people have been ramming their pride messages down our collective throats. Coles supermarkets have been going full steam ahead with their pride messaging. They’ve been taking out full-page ads claiming that “Everyone is Welcome at Our Table”. In the local Coles supermarket, they had a Pride display selling WorldPride Oreo biscuits. In the same shopping centre, a guy was handing out little paper Pride flags. My children’s school invited all the kids to wear rainbow socks to school. The Prime Minister of Australia went marching in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras becoming the first sitting PM to do so. But the straw that broke the camel’s back, at least in my life, was when I was listening to the radio while driving my family to the park on the weekend. Recently, I only listen to one station, ABC Classic. Partly because I like classical music, but the main reason is that I’m sick of listening to other stations that are either full of ads or political messaging. However, ABC just can’t seem to help themselves. The announcer said, “And now we’re going to play you the world’s finest Pride music by some of the greatest queer composers of our generation. Enjoy three hours of the finest queer instrumentals”. I don’t know about you, but I just want to listen to music. I don’t need to know all the details about the sexuality of the composers. But this seems to be the only thing that the ABC wants to focus on nowadays – people’s sexuality. It’s amazing! I can’t even turn on the classical music station without being bombarded by social and political messaging! The National Rugby League are one of the few holdouts. They’ve found that pride rounds are often “divisive”. In 2022, the Manly Rugby League Club tried to get their players to wear a rainbow pride jersey and it brought the club to its knees. A number of the players refused to wear the jersey and chose to boycott the game instead. So, the NRL have decided that it’s in their best interest to focus on the sport instead, and leave political issues off the field. They stated, “If we were going to do anything, we were going to do a Respect Round. It wasn’t going to be a Pride Round because then you alienate other people. We pride ourselves on being an inclusive game. To be an inclusive game you have to respect everyone’s views.” And I think that’s a pretty good way to look at it. If players want to go out and march in a pride parade in their free time, great, but leave the playing field for playing rugby. All players of any belief or lifestyle are welcome, as long as they can play football. Okay, so what does all this mean? As I said, I’m not against anybody’s way of life as long as it doesn’t hurt anybody else. The people who are pushing all of this pride messaging claim they are doing it to raise awareness of the LGBT community, but is there anybody anywhere that isn’t aware of the LGBT community? It feels like it’s everywhere. It’s at school. It’s at the supermarket. It’s at university. It’s on the radio. It’s in sport. It’s on every TV channel. There’s no escaping it! Do I just have to accept that we now have to talk about people’s sexual orientation at every opportunity? MUSIC Australian Ancestry (Traditional Mix) Smokey's Lounge by TrackTribe Double Helix by Ethan Meixsell Allégro by Emmit Fenn ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ3EHk-x40Q