If you understand the way things are right now is broken, you should understand that you ALWAYS have a choice to stop being cynical, fight for your freedom and fight for what's right.
I wasn't ONLY talking about reddit in this post a while back. https://lemmy.world/post/858027
Choose to be creative. Choose to be sincere. Choose to be a human again.
2 weeks only? should change the headlines to "americans were made"
...You guys are going places for your two weeks off? Well lah-dee-dah, look at all the rich people!
Real talk though, it's not just Americans. Like, go check Japan out sometime for starters.
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The image is titled "HUMANS WERE MADE TO".
Below the title are 5 images and 6 lines of text. The first image is that of a person sitting on a chair at a desk. The text beside it reads "Sit at the desk 9-5".
The second image is the Netflix logo, the text beside it reads "Come home every night to watch Netflix".
The third image is a person wearing a backpack, shorts, boots, and a hat. The text beside it reads "Explore the world for only 2 weeks out of the year".
The fourth image is that of a box containing an assortment of items, the text beside it reads "Have zero creativity".
The fifth image is that of a person sitting on the floor with their knees drawn up to their chest, the text beside it reads "Have every single aspiration beaten out of them".
Underneath the images is a final line of text reading "THERE IS nothing MORE TO LIFE."
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Thank you 💜
To be fair, you don't have to sit around watching Netflix
While true, sitting around watching Netflix has the advantage that it takes none of the nonexistent energy remaining after a full day of work + chores + you only get two hours before bed.
I used to think that's all I had the energy to do. Turns out reading a couple chapters, learning a bit of guitar, going on a short walk, journalling.. all takes minimal mental and physical energy, but feels 10x better to do. I got stuck in shitty habits and convinced myself that's all I could do.
True.
You could watch Disney+.
With all the energy left after an 8 hour job and all the money You make you can sit on the couch and imagine traveling the world.
The scary part is that this doesn’t even sound bad to me anymore.
Yeah, this has me feeling like that one meme "you guys are exploring the world?"
This is why I love my partner. She helps bring me back to the 'it may not be the ideal world but it's our world' sentiment.
Man it sure sucks to be American in this time.
Not if you were born to rich parents. Oops, I mean if you work really hard and quit buying Starbucks, damn millennials
Japan has entered the chat.
Well, being Japanese sure sucked a lot more 80 years ago.
Yeah, and not like anywhere else. 🔥🇵🇱🔥
Work is a scam, take what you need and burn your bosses.
Two weeks?? Longest vacation I've been on in the past 20+ years was eight days, with the eighth day being unintentional due to an issue with the airlines.
Ever been sick? Vacation.
Mine's 22 days. And that wasn't all my vacation for the year either, only most of it.
damn when did everyone go full doomer?
They must have walked out their front doors.
Yeah, I remember back when depressive humor was funny because it was sad. Then, a few things happened in the last decade and now it's funny because it's true.
It was either 2016 or 2019. It was either making a politician out of Trump or COVID. That's when I started to realise how fucked I am and stared anticipating death.
Have you been living under a rock? Everything is bad, at least here in the US.
I think Gul Madred has Picard seeing exactly five lights right now
He promised me a life of luxury if I said it.
According to this theory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss–Howe_generational_theory (see the timings section)
We are at the end of the crisis cycle. The last crisis cycle was WW2.
So shit is about to get really fucking real in a hot minute, but we should then move to a better time - an awakening.
There are plenty of people who are still into future building. But, indeed, a lot of the west is falling into decadence.
But I still see enough spark to hope it will reignite. With a better experience.
Sometimes I tidy the house during the week so I can do nothing on the weekends! It's a miraculous discovery that gives life meaning!
I dont clean up during the week and still do nothing on the weekends
This is the way.
Exploring the world for two whole weeks every year sounds awesome
Y’know…I’m reading The Way We Never Were by Stephanie Coontz.
For much of humanity’s time in modern civilization, everyone worked. Constantly. From childhood to old age. The worst period was from industrialization to the labor movement. Literally worked to death. Probably one of the worst periods in human history with massive disparity and horrendous working conditions. The modern era is luxurious for many compared to what we used to have.
I appreciate the balanced perspective you brought to the table. Modern life is fantastic in so many ways. This post hits so close though because despite the reality most of us yearn for something more. Not wealth per say; freedom to work to live vs most seemingly living to work. The vast imbalance is horrible and most of us aren't having the best time. Says a comfortable software engineer who is is doing... OK but seriously as a society we should have figured out some semblance of proper balance by now.
I think something like the idea of the consensus engine would greatly help us if it could be built. It's not a magic bullet but it would provide so many avenues for not making things worse
I think the difference is that now more than ever we can see the ever increasing wealth disparity in our society. While most of us toil away we constantly see what the classes above us are able to do and get away with because of their insane amount of money.
You guys are exploring the world for 2 weeks? Lucky.
We've spent the vast majority of our existence as a species living in small pre-agricultural bands in which it was virtually impossible to accumulate real personal property or wealth. Consequently, a person's status was determined not by how much they owned, but rather by their merit and relationships with others.
Wheat is a relatively recent development in human history, as is agriculture in general. It changed everything but for better or worse, agriculture is a trap, and once you start transitioning to it, you can never go back.
Wow, wow, wow!!! TWO WEEKS?! Calm down Bear Grylls! Too wild man, too wild!
False. Actually includes 7 hrs of shitposting at night.
2 weeks? I get 1 week. And if I want to split that up, too bad. It has to be 40 concurrent hours.
Because you owe them
This truly is the best of all possible worlds!
I'll never understand the 9-5 thing. Even years ago, the people who didn't have shitty hours worked like 8-4:30 or something. Most people don't actually work 9-5.
If the current definitions don't fit the target, change the definitions until they do. Dystopia 101.. which of course is redefined now to be Utopia 101.
Fuck, for someone who is stuck in this rut ( ie me) we probably have the greatest quality of life in all human history and still complaining.
Yes but there's nothing stopping us from being so much better. We have the tools and resources. They're just not being distributed well. That's sure as hell better then living before showers and toilets, but still it's frustrating when we clearly see we're capable of a better way and we're reminded of that every day.
Yep totally agree with that!
Well you could at least have some proper vacation time, 2 weeks a year is way too little
4 weeks where I live.
It depends on how you measure it. People living in small-scale tribal societies tend to be universally happier than people living in big industrialized societies, but they also face a lot of problems and challenges that we've eradicated through technology.
2 weeks seems like a lot. Anyway I can dwindle that down to less?
I get four weeks, plus about 12 public holidays.
Sucks to be you.
6 weeks here, plus public holidays
Also it is possible to actually like what you do for a job. Many people do.
Then, some people clearly do not. I suppose their work will be replaced with robots. And people who implement these robots are doing it enthusiastically.
Still, we would not want to disenfranchise people who see their work as nonfulfilling. This is a challenge.
Good Lord.
Bunch of depressed doomer bullshit from a bunch of people I hope are talking to a therapist.
Yeah we're supposed to never leave our village for our 40 year lifespan, fear this that go against our myths and tradition and violently castigate those we deem different enough for us.
Or maybe civilization itself was too much and we should live in even smaller groups with our numbers limited by no agriculture.
Why do we hate Netflix and abundant food?
When the alternative is man Vs nature in a constant struggle to avoid violent or hungry death, or even worse - slavery, then we gotta count our blessings. I'm also greatful for every day I'm not plowing cotton fields with my hands or operating machinery in a factory.
There it is, the good ol' false dilemma
There are more options than "be a wage slave who has been so beaten down by the system that they have nothing left in their lives" and "be a hunter-gatherer hunted by lions."
This is undoubtedly the more healthy attitude
