Amazing how awesome a little comfort is when you can just ignore others who don’t have what you have, and ignore how little separates you from them. Injury, illness, mistakes, accusations, random layoffs… Its all so fragile.
Anon has a wholesome thought
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MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
For me, it’s injury. I’ve been in a residential treatment program ever since I got a TBI in 2022
Akasazh@feddit.nl 21 hours ago
Modern medicine is nothing shy of witchcraft, it’s incredible that people choose willingly to ignore it.
Aneb@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Its a miracle if insurance actually approves the claims tho for life saving medicine. The chemo patient doesn’t need anti nausea pills, they can just throw up (double points if its a child) - a recent news story I read. Right now I’m waiting for my insurance to authorize use of med equipment at home for a bone stimulation medication, my collarbone isn’t fully healed after 3 full months
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
They just believe that they should train their immune system to fight disease and use prayer to cover the rest instead of your black magic vaccines. Their opinion is that it works better and opinions can’t be wrong. /s
M137@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I’m in an almost constant state of knowing and feeling this. The vast majority of people would call my life poor and bad, but I’m incredibly grateful and in awe of the things I have and get to experience. It’s not easy though, because almost everyone around me has more and extremely few don’t feel like spoiled brats that take everything for granted and just want more and more no matter who it hurts and the impact it has on our world.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Shout out to indoor plumbing yo
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Not dying of a cold is neat and all, but I can’t help but wonder if not knowing those things exist would be better then having them.
IronBird@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
and you one random medical accident away from losing all that, in some uncivilized countries
RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 18 hours ago
Just like in the old days, even a king
etherphon@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Anon discovers gratitude.
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
they talked about it a lot in the residential treatment program i was in for two years
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Do you own your own house?
No? Then not matter what petit bourgeois toys and little luxuries you have, you’re still not doing that good.
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 23 hours ago
How many owned their own land through history?
I know very little about how things were handled pre-medival, but its my understanding that serfdom (where you were attached to a piece of land and obligated to work it) was the norm for the vast majority of common people.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
Not that different from today… you have to work for the piece of land you own/rent.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
That’s accurate to what serfdom was but it was an evolution of pre-medival slavery. Instead of being the personal property of a king working the fields on the kings owned land, it was about being the personal property of the crown, the state, the system (owned by the king.)
A slave could earn their freedom, be set free, or even kill their master and be free. A lot of slaves in antiquity had a tendency to overthrow kingdoms.
A serf though, was never meant to be free. Except, maybe, by another, foreign nation state. And now you know the basis of most European medieval war history.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Do you own the servers for the company you work at?
I am assuming the house you lived on as a serf was yours, and you could do whatever you wanted to it. I don’t think the lord was trotting about town going “Um, regulations say no pets”
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Was just about to summon the anti-capitalist hordes but I see I’m too late.
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
nope, i’m not the homeowner. i share the house with two other guys. my social security check pays for the rent
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Then no matter what petit bourgeois toys and little luxuries you have, you’re still not doing that good.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Yes. We have gained wild material wealth relatively compared to a thousand years ago. However, we traded the shared community or village we had for the wealth.
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I guess you’re talking about like WAY back in the past, like even before Eridu (the first city). So that would be like pre-5000 B.C. Back then, I suppose the family and the community were stronger because you kinda had to be. You didn’t have the option of disconnecting from reality like we do now
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 23 hours ago
Chances are anon is or will soon be a wizard.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
If you give a slave an iphone they are still a slave.
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
i suppose you’re right. but they won’t have anything to charge it with
plyth@feddit.org 23 hours ago
OP is the user of civilization. In which way is he the product if he has gotten those things essentially for free?
figjam@midwest.social 23 hours ago
Just being able to bathe regularly and not deal with parasites is really a big deal.
Agent641@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
One little cut away from a horrific prolonged gangrenous death
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Fucking Hannibal, one of the greatest military generals in history, died in exile in Assyria after he cut his thumb on his sword and went septic.
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I’ve started showering every day because I stream on Twitch and TikTok Live and I don’t want to look like a hobo
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
Right thing wrong reason :/
shalafi@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Maybe the finest improvement to our camp was adding an outdoor shower. Water’s pumped into a 68G barrel with a few tiny chlorine tabs. Gravity drains nicely.
Just being able to easily wash my face and hands is a boon.