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"Earning a living" (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] -2 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Can I be the Genx here and just … yeah, we’ve always had to work for survival. Like each and every organism that find a niche. They are all working… even photosynthesis is a kind of activity.

Good grief.

All critters have to work. Think about it.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe... Just maybe... We've evolved past being critters and could use our superior brain power to avoid having to work like the animals...

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago

    Sorry — we’re still animals.

    We are literally the morons destroying the planet and you somehow see yourself as superior to animals that do not destroy the earth? They don’t use plastic or have subscriptions that make fascists rich.

    Listen— I want to be friends with everyone at Lemmy because we all share contempt for the prevailing hegemony… so I’ll tone it down …

    Humans can’t use their superior brainpower to boycott Facebook successfully.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (7 children)

    But plants kind of live in the real world, and I live in violently enforced fantasy bullshit. Literally the majority of the resources, of that work, goes to maintaining inequality and oppression, not to anyone's survival.

    Take every penny in advertising policing 'genAI' and military budgets. Just the most obvious inarguable 'this couldn't possibly be for anything else', and it's over half of the minerals work hours and CPU cycles,

    So the amount we have to work is at least twice as much as the actual amount to survive, and the benefits are no more than half as much. And all of it in deeply bullshit conditions, usually in ways that are 90% oppression 10% productivity at best.

    And these are kinda conservative estimates.

    So get peter thiel's dick out of your mouth before you speak, boot licker. You won't sound nearly as fucking stupid.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    Touchy much?

    I’m not the one complaining about the hours per week I work or my compensation… just saying…

    Honestly— we’re just another organism on the planet.

    Separate yourself from the system — a hatchet in the wild… and you’ll find you’ll still have to work. The native Americans had to hunt and build domeciles and make clothes… maybe farm… fish… it’s work all the way down to the first turtle.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

    You put a lot of work into coping with the amount of billionaire dick you suck.

    Admittedly, this is very refined copium, the cognitive dissonance is very smoothe, the choices you're pretending don't exist and horrors you need to pretend are inherent are very refined. A+ rhetoric, gotta respect the evil game.

    Still get the billionaire dick out of your mouth before speaking, boot licker.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    First: we’re all here because we want to weaken the current corporate hegemony. So… yeah… down with big billionaires. You and I are on the same team. (Unless you don’t get the Orwell reference.)

    So… I just want to get this straight.

    Let’s say it takes X amount of work to support your needs. Your PB&Js and Captain Crunch… whatever it is.

    So… In your world… let’s say you eat for free… whose precious calories get burned in the acquisition of the calories upon which you are sustained?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (3 children)

    I'm not averse to the idea of doing shit. I'm averse to 99% of the value of everything i do being stolen and given back in the form of thugs who k8dnap my neighbors and gas my friends and might kill me at any second and nobody will care, and will not contribute to that system.

    But it is actually possible to eat for just about free. The precolumbian peoples of north America had actually cultivated a sort of abundance that allowed for very nearly this in some places. Doesn't work with our current population, and I like building shit¹ so it's not the utopia I'd choose, but is in fact possible. Shit was basically rock candy mountain. And I'd be okay going shit for other people. I do in fact. It can be fun, when work isn't made miserable. They didnt choose to be here any more than I did, and in light of tgat they should be allowed the necessities of life.

    I'm not interested in what you have to say about any of this, what with the billionaire dick youre choking on.

    ¹also toilet paper and antibiotics

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I’ve tried to remain civil but since your dream job is “going shit for other people,” I agree we don’t have much in common. Yes — that’s a quote.

    Allow me though to ask you to leave your ignorant, toxic, homophobic, ugliness at Reddit where they need people like you to undermine their efforts at community building.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yes I'm homophobic. So homophobic. The most homophobic actually. Misogynist too. You got me.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I checked out your zero original post profile and discovered you’re just a little rage bait bot. Cute. Keep undermining Lemmy. We will persevere.

    Oh… and wanna know how a rage bait bot reveals itself? It has to have the last word. Hang in there.

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