How are you coping with the system or better yet how are you working to make this system work for you and not the other way around??
She does lay it plain to the point where even us non-immigrants had to buck up :) your terminology is definitely what I would use, a hamster wheel ... Everybody has to find their own exit .. You have us an excellent case study of what we all need to be striving forWhen I realized after 5 years on an economic escalator that it was actually a 5 year hamster wheel I knew I had to find a way off the plantation.
2 years later Im on my own land in a house. I now have something to show for my life as well as to pass down to my children.