nah, we worked to build it, we deserve the free time it entails. instead of funneling all the value of our labour to a handful of oligarchs.
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nebulaone@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I feel you.
Let me play devil’s advocate tho and say: You can still do this if tou really want to and you have at least double the life expectancy.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
nebulaone@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I agree with that, but I don’t think these necessarily contradict each other.
Zink@programming.dev 1 day ago
making mundane work unbearable.
Finding joy in the quiet time doing the mundane work I CARE about (lots of yard work, construction, and taking care of my animals) is some of the most important meditative-type time that I spend, I have learned.
It makes work more bearable to more enjoyable when I can find a similar mental state, listening to the same music, etc.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Where does this myth come from?
nebulaone@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I know that life expectancy was mostly low because of infant mortality. Still the advancements in medicine cannot be denied.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
And if you applied modern medicine to hunter gatherers, yeah. They’d live longer.
But it barely counteracts the negative effects of the trash we eat the horror we live and the squalor we do it in.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
True, but the advancements boil down to late 19th century ideas like “wash your hands after the autopsy before delivering Ms Green’s baby”, which the medical establishment pushed hard against at the time. Tells you a lot about the medical mindset…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
“Despite his research, Semmelweis’s observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community. He could offer no theoretical explanation for his findings of reduced mortality due to hand-washing, and some doctors were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands and mocked him for it.”
zbyte64@awful.systems 1 day ago
Ehh, it is not that our dopamine receptors are fried. We are all wired to seek out information. But most of what we get is starving us for actual useful information so we have to wade through an endless sea of slop. The “instant gratification” is largely us not wanting to deal with the bullshit and get straight to what is useful.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Nah. I still like mundane work when its for people i care about. When there are people i care about.
It’s the capitalism and petty tyrannies that do it.
Not the work.
nebulaone@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I can definitely get behind this. It also makes me feel good about myself to help people I like.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Yeah. Work can actually be pretty cool. Like, yes, id usually rather be having an orgasm from injecting cheesecake and a few grams of lsd directly into relevant places, but even if i coukd fo that all the time, id still want a little variety.