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People are stressed because they are never free. In a capitalist society we can do whatever we want (TM) except if you have no money. Then you can't do anything
by branchless 9y ago
People are stressed because they are never free. In a capitalist society we can do whatever we want (TM) except if you have no money. Then you can't do anything.
High land prices mean we can afford to rent (the cost of carry on the debt on the land) but never own. Therefore we can never be financially independent. With technology and globalisation eroding job security for everyone we are never able to relax. Always looking over our shoulder, unable to refuse overtime, hunted.
Yes this might not apply to the upper class tech of hacker news but they are not representative of the vast majority of people.
- dqv 9y ago>People are stressed because they are never free. I disagree that this is the root cause. News media and social media have both become extremely efficient and high speed conduits for "stress loading" upon our population. A local news story used to only isolate the stress to a small locality; now, however, mass media is amplifying and propagating this local stress all around the country. It's only going to get worse.
- wutbrodo 9y ago> Yes this might not apply to the upper class tech of hacker news but they are not representative of the vast majority of people. It should be clear that this doesn't encapsulate the problem if there's a reasonable segment of the population feeling the same effect without being subject to the same causes. And the stuff you're describing is on the order of 20% here, not 1%.