"It's Just A Money-Making Scheme": Older People Are Exposing The So-Called "Facts" They Just Realized Are Total Lies, And My Entire Worldview Is Crumbling

The older you get, the wiser you become; that's a elemental fact. But portion of that contented is successful realizing what societal norms are valid, and what's really a implicit story that you've believed your full life. Suffice it to say, if you're not having philosophical realizations and mindset shifts arsenic an adult, I simply don't spot you.

So recently, adults connected Reddit were answering the question, "What 'adult' thing did you recognize successful 2025 is really implicit bullsh*t?'" and these answers are really beauteous mind-blowing. Here are the apical responses:

1. "For my full life, I believed that astatine immoderate point, you crook into a 'big grown big person' who is serious, knows what they are doing, and is devoid of childish things. And past I realized that immoderate of these 'big grown adults' are younger than me. Complete bullshit. Some radical tin look weathered. Some radical tin dependable confident. Some radical tin speech smart. But astatine the extremity of the time we each tally into problems we cognize oregon don't cognize however to solve. And precise fewer of america really person immoderate grand, semipermanent design."

–_Weyland_

2. "Weddings. Sure, if you request it for ineligible reasons, bash it. And if you request it for spiritual reasons, bash it. But wherefore is spending tens of thousands of dollars for a enactment that is astatine champion 'meh' indispensable astatine all?"

–somewhat_random

3. "Drinking java to beryllium much productive. Don't get maine wrong, I similar a bully achromatic java without sugar, and combining it with vanilla crystal pick is simply a delicacy, but the infinitesimal you portion it to beryllium 'more productive,' it really makes you much anxious and prone to making mistakes due to the fact that you privation to bash everything quickly, but you extremity up doing it carelessly."

–Iriol

4. "That 'networking' is immoderate magical cardinal to success. Turns out, it's mostly nepotism, luck, and who you cognize from schoolhouse oregon family. I spent years grinding LinkedIn java chats successful 2025 — got ghosted much than I got jobs. Real adulting: amusement up, bash bully work, and anticipation the close idiosyncratic notices by accident."

–Iriahanna

5. "Voting. Mostly due to the fact that of however stupid, shortsighted, and easy propagandized the mean elector is. There aren't capable astute radical to flooded the dumb people, truthful you conscionable person to luck successful to the conditions being close for the amended enactment to win."

–wossquee

6. "Custody battles. My ex-wife has virtually lied her mode into maine losing my kids, and each my lawyer wanted to bash was the aforesaid thing. She fundamentally wanted maine to supply each item of each atrocious happening my ex has ever done successful bid to combat back, and I wasn't consenting to bash her (because she's a bully mom). Are you freaking kidding me?! Moral of the story: In court, if 1 enactment is consenting to prevarication and the different enactment isn't, the liar wins."

–LennerKetty

7. "Identity politics. It's chill for anyone to beryllium what they want, but the infinitesimal it becomes a motivation imperative to find a person's privilege and having that gauge their worthiness for respect oregon value…or erstwhile you're truthful fixated connected being connected 'the close broadside of history' that the 'rightness' of each small happening radical bash and accidental becomes king to you… That is BS."

–EidolonRook

8. "Funerals. It's conscionable a money-making scheme, nickel-and-diming radical who are grieving. Throw maine retired successful the godforsaken and fto maine rot; I virtually don’t care. Just don't spell successful to indebtedness for end-of-life services."

–Mysterious-Beauty

9. "There is simply a chiseled headdress connected the magnitude of hours a quality tin productively work. Working 80 hours a week doesn't mean being productive 80 hours a week; it means sitting successful beforehand of a machine and staring into abstraction fractional the time."

–tinyevilsponges

10. "At this point, the full bureau and thought of a presidency successful the US. Like, Nixon had a huge scandal that's laughable now; Clinton had an embarrassing sexual scandal; Bush Jr. was mocked for being stupid; but determination was ever inactive an thought of respect and dignity regarding the position. It's each gone now. Even Congress is specified a shit-show; it feels similar watching professionals wrestling with personalities and egos. The full authorities is simply a clown amusement now."

–Diligent_Mail_4584

11. And similarly, "Watching the news. It's an manufacture with lone 1 objective: to bring chaos and insanity to the world. Driving anxiousness alternatively of joy. Manipulating and dividing radical each time by selling them opinions."

–nachobyrd

12. "Something similar a car oregon a fridge built successful 1978 is amended made and lasts longer than those brand-new ones made successful 2025. We don't request Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, touch-screens, and each this 'smart' crap successful appliances."

–Chumlee1917

13. "I realized a spot excessively precocious that being affable does not marque a idiosyncratic a bully person. Sometimes it's a persona, and it’s down closed doors wherever one's existent aforesaid comes out. I hatred to admit it, but I didn’t recognize this until 33, and it took maine getting burned hard to notice. Just due to the fact that a idiosyncratic is bully to you, doesn't mean they attraction astir you."

–SparkyCervidae

14. "Human transportation is going to springiness you SO overmuch much than astir BS solutions to your interior achromatic spread that radical are trying to merchantability you — for which you evidently request to grind more, due to the fact that without money, however volition you spend THE THING???"

–ForbiddenFruitiness

15. "Asserting your independency astatine the earliest imaginable point. I privation I had taken my clip and built up a spot of a nest ovum earlier moving retired connected my own. For immoderate people, it isn't an option, and the concern astatine location is conscionable excessively toxic...but I bash deliberation a batch of important resources get spent successful the sanction of trying to beryllium you tin beryllium an 'adult,' erstwhile what you astir apt should beryllium doing is mounting your big aforesaid up successful the future. Imagine however overmuch amended disconnected astir radical would beryllium with 2 years of their wage saved up, arsenic opposed to going retired successful the satellite with a mates of pennies, pupil indebtedness debt, and a recognition card."

–Mikimao

16. "I thought insecurity was for kids and teens. Turns out, fully-grown adults are insecure too."

–CranberryBauce

"That’s a large portion of wherefore suburban adulthood is indistinguishable from mediate school."

–bog_hippie

17. "Grind culture, workaholism, and earning a ton of money; the request to get joined oregon person a important other; and children. What bash you bash erstwhile you tendency nary of these things? Or erstwhile your needs are the astir basal and you enactment successful a batch of hours astatine a occupation you hatred for nary crushed astatine all? What if you don't privation the latest tech, video games, decorator clothes, perfumes, privation to ticker the latest films, oregon blistery caller series? It's good to not privation 1 oregon either of these things."

–Rasheverak

18. "The 'life script.' A important other, children, and a location won't marque everyone happy, contempt what a ample information of the colonisation and media mightiness insist. Life is simply a sandbox. You tin bash immoderate you're susceptible of. Know yourself and what makes you happy, past prosecute those things."

–stebbi01

19. "Overconsumption. Everything is cheap. Everything is trash. And you're paying premium for it."

–Fog-Champ

20. "Never prime up other enactment astatine your occupation that you aren't consenting to beryllium expected to bash from past on. You volition not beryllium rewarded, and you won't get a rise for sidesplitting yourself."

–lees395

21. "Dressing poorly. After traveling the world, I don't look to hold with galore Americans' lazy cognition towards looking decent successful public."

–bagel_union

22. "Looking for enactment to do. Not similar a job, but my parents and older household each kick perpetually they person nary escaped time. But each they bash is marque themselves work. Cut down immoderate trees, rearrange the full house, excavation up the yard. Just ever making themselves work."

–Justgonnawalkaway

"I ne'er understood making up worldly to bash for nary crushed erstwhile it doesn’t request to beryllium done. My parents are boomers and are ever rearranging the garage, cutting histrion limbs, dusting, organizing the freezer, talking astir getting a antithetic car each fewer years. Why can’t they conscionable beryllium astatine bid similar ever."

–Strict_Hunter_7781

23. "'Go to college, get a degree, and you'll beryllium successful.' It's the biggest scam of our generation."

–wirblewind

24. "Office jobs. I ever assumed radical did each kinds of truly important things each the time. Turns out, portion of it is arguing with radical implicit whether oregon not printing retired a expanse of stickers is their occupation oregon not."

–0dty0

25. "Politics. When you're a young kid, your parents watching the quality and talking authorities seems similar this ace mature, blase big thing. Almost abstract successful a way. When you turn up and commencement looking into it, it's conscionable a clump of idiots with half-baked opinions astir the different broadside that they cognize small to thing about. Also, rather a spot of it is conscionable societal issues that astir radical tin wrapper their caput around, and has thing to bash with government/bureaucratic affairs."

–Sea_Office_6482

26. "Return-to-office mandates. Commuting an hr conscionable to beryllium connected Zoom calls astatine my table is insane."

–Hot-Brick7761

27. "That adults person crap figured out. Most don't. Most are conscionable winging it. Source: I'm an big that's conscionable winging it."

–MechanicalHorse

"Winging it? Shit, barely. Most adults I cognize are implicit fucking idiots."

–makesmefez

28. "Economics. People bash not enactment successful their rational aforesaid involvement and the invisible manus doesn’t pb to large outcomes for the bulk of the world’s population. It's conscionable BS utilized to warrant selfishness."

–Bobbie_Sacamano

29. "Being Christian doesn't marque you a bully person. Being a bully idiosyncratic makes you a bully person."

–Just-Sock-4706

30. And finally: "'Growing up' is simply a myth. You'll ever consciousness similar a kid connected the inside. Farts are inactive funny."

–whatislife4

What's an "adult thing" you lone conscionable realized is full bullsh*t? People implicit 35, we wanna know! Respond successful this anonymous form, oregon successful the comments below.

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