you can retire three months before your expected lifespan, so it’s all worth it, really
Yeah, ancient people had it good, they never had to work, food and shelter used to just fall out of the sky.
No one is saying that
The fixation on “completing” things isn’t healthy imo. An attitude like that will rob you of the ability to find joy. I have to eat every day, sleep every night, and do laundry on a weekly basis. None of these things will ever be “done” for as long as I’m alive. Being “complete” is being dead.
That’s a bit hyperbolic. You can complete a task, a project, a goal. Maybe your task is to do this weeks laundry. Maybe your goal is to build a habit around finishing your laundry. Or your project is to assess your wardrobe and donate your old clothes.
All completable things that should give your brain dopamine and make you feel good about yourself, it’s natural and okay to find joy from those things!
Prob gonna get downvoted but lemmy is so negative. I feel like what gets the most up votes is negativity with no nuance. Like this post is comparing working endlessly on a literally endless grueling task that has no benefit to a job which gives us money to do the things we want to do in life.
Maybe it’s on me for not curating my feed more but the negativity on lemmy is getting old. Does anyone else notice this trend of negativity?
Edit: I suppose I’m being negative about negativity. Am I a hypocrite? Lol
Gotta remember this is the shitpost community
therapist with an eye on the clock “have you tried imagining that you’re happy?”
Imagine not having to work, exercising daily, being chiseled like a Greek god and ripped like an athlete.
Sisyphus was an absolute unit
At least the feller got to get outside and breathe some fresh moutain air.
Can’t beat that oxygenated blood flow
Do you live in a house? Somebody spent a lot of effort to build it, and expecting it for free would be silly, and its the same with many other things.
The thing that youre mad about is the fact living standards are falling, because your central bank can print unlimited sums of money out of nothing, as interest rates are set artificially low to monetize debt; which encourages debt accumulation via the cantillon effect, which creates serfdom via a gatekeeping system on an inelastic good.
The closer to the gold standard you were born the cheaper things like your house was, and the less debt was required as debt was actually a liability instead of an asset, because it is inevitably eroded by future money printing.
Do y’all seriously not get any sort of pride out of the work you do? Feelings of accomplishment when you do a good job on something? Recognition from your peers?
Lemmy is filled to the brim with the kind of people that can’t run into each other without going ballistic over a greeting, so those takes are about expected
Frankly I’d be weirded out if they did found fulfillment from their work, that’d mean there are actual mentally, emotionally and physically healthy, happy, pro social and productive members of society in here.
Which is a counter fact, seeing as most of them have never touched grass
I love doing a good job and completing a project. Those moments are wonderful and i cherish them deeply but they’re fleeting. The obligation to have and maintain a career for survival is the issue. I like the work i do, i loath that i have to do it.
You are not forced to do it. You can quit anytime and set up for yourself
Wait, what is this about “modern people not seeing what’s so horrifying” about Sisyphus’ punishment? I’ve never heard of anyone who seemed to believe that.
This is a classic Internet example of making up a hypothetical argument so you can make a point, despite the hypothetical argument being completely untrue and irrelevant.
Happens all the time these days.
good thing no one ever had to to repetitive tasks in ancient greece
You make some pots for the neighbors, think your work is done, then suddenly it’s “Oh no Arkadios we dropped one of our urns and also we want to store extra grain for the cold season” and here I am making MORE FUCKING URNS.
What I wouldn’t give to live in the old days before people had to learn a trade to get by!
That’s why people built silos for their families, if they were wealthy enough, and for whole communities (to serve as a Bank) to store their grain
They mostly dug a leveled pit in the ground itself to keep everything cool, but more ornate silos were part of royalty or well managed cities
Urns were very ornate and the materials used to craft them very expensive and mostly used to store more valuable things, be it ashes, oils, Treasured items or whole bodies
Vases were more common, and made, as pottery, with very cheap materials
