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"As you're Ubering down the road of life, if you're ahead of schedule and there are no other productive activities you can fit in before your next appointment,

"As you're Ubering down the road of life, if you're ahead of schedule and there are no other productive activities you can fit in before your next appointment, don't forget to stop and smell the roses." There are a lot of very sad comments in this thread about optimising life and being productive and efficient. Don't have kids. Don't cook. Don't watch television or play video games, or at least save them until everything else is done. Buy other people's labour to free up more time for working to pay them. This is an unapologetic value judgement: living your life that way is a waste of time. There's not enough time, and that's okay. Let a few things go. You don't need to be optimally productive.

taurath 8y ago
I can’t help but feel like it’s because we feel like we need to carve out some time to actually do something that is fulfilling, satisfying, or worth living for. The idea of the grind through middle age isn’t uncommon - and as people see their parents who went through it have regrets and/or fail to have anything happening for them after retirement it starts to really grow on you just how much of a waste it can feel.
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projektir 8y ago
> There are a lot of very sad comments in this thread about optimising life and being productive and efficient. Don't have kids. Don't cook. Don't watch television or play video games, or at least save them until everything else is done. Buy other people's labour to free up more time for working to pay them. Maybe you're over aggregating? :) I don't want to have kids in part because I like my video games and they and other activities I enjoy will have to go poof due to kids^t. Basically, you can only pick a few things before your time runs out. I think you're vying for a time where people wouldn't feel so short of time, but I don't think it's bad, in the moment, if people do successfully optimize their time for their situation, and I don't care if it makes some idealizer of the human condition unhappy. I do not owe it to anyone to fit some mold of the perfect human being who finds all the time to exercise, eat healthy, socialize, cook, AND have kids. It's all draining enough for me as it is. ^t there are other much more advanced and depressing reasons why I actually don't want to have kids, though

taurath 8y ago

I can’t help but feel like it’s because we feel like we need to carve out some time to actually do something that is fulfilling, satisfying, or worth living for. The idea of the grind through middle age isn’t uncommon - and as people see their parents who went through it have regrets and/or fail to have anything happening for them after retirement it starts to really grow on you just how much of a waste it can feel.

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projektir 8y ago

> There are a lot of very sad comments in this thread about optimising life and being productive and efficient. Don't have kids. Don't cook. Don't watch television or play video games, or at least save them until everything else is done. Buy other people's labour to free up more time for working to pay them. Maybe you're over aggregating? :) I don't want to have kids in part because I like my video games and they and other activities I enjoy will have to go poof due to kids^t. Basically, you can only pick a few things before your time runs out. I think you're vying for a time where people wouldn't feel so short of time, but I don't think it's bad, in the moment, if people do successfully optimize their time for their situation, and I don't care if it makes some idealizer of the human condition unhappy. I do not owe it to anyone to fit some mold of the perfect human being who finds all the time to exercise, eat healthy, socialize, cook, AND have kids. It's all draining enough for me as it is. ^t there are other much more advanced and depressing reasons why I actually don't want to have kids, though