Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.

The quote is a critique of consumerist “normalcy” and the self-reinforcing cycle of modern middle-class life: people incur expenses (work clothes, car payments, housing) that then require steady employment to sustain, even when the job itself is primarily a means to service those costs. By listing ordinary routines in a single breath, it exposes how socially accepted patterns can feel irrational or hollow when viewed as a closed loop. The empty house “all day” underscores the irony of working to afford a home one scarcely inhabits, suggesting a loss of time, autonomy, and meaning in exchange for status and security.