When anthropologists study people who still hunt and gather for their food (e.g., the Hadza), what they do more than anything is… nothing in particular. Not hunting, foraging, building, repairing weapons/clothing/housing, socializing, etc. just… chilling.
Their lives are incredibly hard and I wouldn’t trade places with them, but the idea that the natural state of people is hustling is false. People hustled for their food, then rested once they had it. Some days they hunt from dawn to dusk, other days they found a beehive and chilled.
They’ve been bred to believe this makes you a great person. NOT doing it makes you lazy.
Absolutely. It is a critical mechanism by which our culture encourages poor people to be angry at other poor people that they don’t have more instead of at the people with ALL THE STUFF.
Only if you are poor…
I was forced to do this terrible thing in order to not starve. Instead of doing anything about it, I think that we should make anyone who didn’t suffer as much have to do that terrible thing in order to not starve. Otherwise they do not deserve it.
Exactly. I actually had a coworker say people didn’t deserve free college education because he had to pay. So I guess no one should be allowed anything he wasn’t allowed.
When hiking in a group of people travelling at unequal speeds, it is only reasonable to have everyone move at the pace of the fastest person. Otherwise it’s Not Efficient.
(sarcasm disclaimer: this is sarcastic)
Unpopular opinion: working ONE full time job for full time hours in exchange for getting paid a living wage with not a lot of absolutely absurd strings and conditions attached to it is actually a good situation to be in. The problem is they want us to work well beyond full time hours, at multiple jobs since the cost of living is price fixed, for less than a living wage while passing thc drug tests every 5 minutes. I want to use my tech degrees for ANYTHING besides primarily passing thc tests, the only goddamn thing they care about most of the time. I thought they needed SKILLS.
This is the worst and stupidest timeline and so is everyone who agrees this is how things should me.
I swear to fuck I’m going to learn 3d modelling and start pumping out bulk quantities of 3d porn for money if I have to but the world is a fucking joke right now.
Move to a legal state.
I understand that you’ll probably say that’s not possible, but there are more and more legal states, and plenty of cheap places in them.
I obviously don’t know what your situation is, but if THC drug tests are causing you this much angst, it’s worth considering.
I’m currently plotting to bullshit my way into some kind of situation that would involve me moving to Minnesota but I don’t yet have any leads. I’ll get it someday.
Can’t believe people actually allow people like this to have an audience. Have you ever tried to grow enough food to eliminate the need to go to the grocery store?
Gow much land and equipment from grants or my family do i get?
Equipment from grants? What grant money if no one is working to pay taxes? The root of the problem, I asked a question and your first response is how much free stuff will the government give me.
Especially when You realize, we are producing like twice what we need.
And that the majority of that output is being hoarded by those who already have far more than they can ever use.
Reject modernity, return to hunter-gatherer
Someone a long time ago estimated that in their future, automation will make us work much less. Guess what, it made us work more even tho the work that has to be done is less
There’s a percentage of jobs out there that even with layoffs, AI, and the rest, are not crucial to the operation and could be eliminated. Ask anyone who is the “main” worker while others do the minimum or less.
Marketing is a huge industry, doesn’t really benefit society, and isn’t really needed at all. Executives are mostly useless or even detrimental to their companies. A lot of the financial sector is just gambling.
It’s funny to me how some think this is some hidden knowledge. Yeah plenty know it sucks but also know that without work they won’t eat
I know how to eat without money. Problem is shelter. Then if I am paying for shelter anyway it’s only an extra hour of work a week to pay for food.
Me when I realize survival means constantly fighting against entropy.
the highly organized and artificial structures of capitalism aren’t entropy
People are like, “why is life so hard?!”. When by life they really mean the cost of living, the division of labor, the lopsided allocation of capital, the perverse incentives, and the law that in many cases makes it outright illegal to help others or share things.
Edit: “life is hard” because your boss wants it that way.
