It astounds me that people can be this fed up and somehow not become radical socialists, at least fucking unionize god damn
like there’s a whole book written specifically about why this would happen and how workers can fight back
Slaps Bible, you just need to pray more, at our mega church sponsored by VerizonAmazonPal
Radical socialist aka lazy bones capitalists
To be honest, the older I get the more I realize the value to being lazy.
And for the record, the vast majority of people are fucking lazy. All life forms are, they don’t really don’t want to do work. We weren’t put on this earth to work to live.
Animals spend a lot of time doing nothing. Not sleeping, just sitting around:
Contrary to the perceptions of nature as a well-oiled machine, we see inactivity in all corners of the animal kingdom. In fact, it seems that many creatures spend the majority of their time inactive, which is defined as time that an individual is awake but not engaging in any specific task or activity. Observations of animals have shown that some creatures spend between 75% (lions) to 85% (hummingbirds) of their time being at rest. That’s a lot of time doing nothing!
There’s also estimates that hunter-gatherers only work 15-20 hours per week.
Multiple things can be true simultaneously,
You can hate all the shit you’ve got to deal with while acknowledging it’s some of the least bad shit people have had to deal with in human history. Arguably the shit we deal with now could be considered the last great hurdle left to us by generations of getting rid of worse shit.
We’ve made a disease that was basically our natural predator go extinct in the wild, we’ve touched other worlds and reached the top and bottom of our own, we’ve gotten so efficient at work that we’ve started making strange collections of rocks do the mundane and mathematically tedious work for us.
What’s left to us is taking our free time back, switching over to a cheaper power source than what we were using, pegging the bottom wrung wage floor to an automatically adjusting living standard ratio, and other fine tuned adjustments on big ideas others have already done the fighting and dying to set the foundations with.
We’re not slaying dragons, we’re banishing the last ghosts of bitter lords and merchants.
Exactly. Remember that time when the harvest failed, and you had to eat your pet dogs and your baby brother starved to death? Remember that time when your neighbour got a scratch in the woods and died from infection? Or how you all avoided old wife Johnson for two years because her husband got
pneumoniathe coughs and died gasping for air? Or that time two of your aunts died in childbirth? Remember how the most exciting thing to happen in your life was a traveler staying in your village and they told stories of huge wooden ships sailing on the seas? Remember how three townsfolk were mauled by a bear last year? Oh crap, you said it’s name, better hope nobody heard you, or you’ll get blamed for the next one!How about just your regular day? Spending 8 hours a day housekeeping, cleaning your dirt floors, fetching water from the mostly-clean well or the slow-flowing bit of creek outside the village, baking bread in your castiron pot after gathering firewood, preserving food for winter and knowing you’ll be eating old flour and salted meat/fish before christmas anyway, churning butter again because the batch you made last mondy is rancid already, etc etc etc.
Life sucks, but it sucked WAY harder in the past. I can heartely recommend doing a week of early-medieval reenactment, because nothing makes you apreciate modern life more than spending 6 hours of your day, every day, making a stew and some bread.
Remember
I am not that old, please.
There’s a solution comrade
When this is the life they’ve built for you, what else do you have to lose but your chains.
WFH solves at least three of those problems, but only if our corporate lords allow it.
Wfh only benefits a pretty small subset of the population… Speaking as someone who can’t work from home.
In my experience WFH wasn’t worth it. The jobs pay way less with shitty benefits and the pressure was intense. Hybrid jobs are much more chill and pay more so I can afford things like a weekly cleaning lady to take some pressure off home life.
It shouldn’t be like this but here we are, and we have to make the best of it.
None of that is inherent to WFH, that’s just your employers being assholes.
And quite likely intentional to make workers think WFH is inherently bad
my wfh job pays above industry average, you just gotta keep switching it up until you win
Funny : Anon is from the US, but this exactly describes my brother in law’s life too, over in China.
