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> social media/games ... hobbies ... Lifelong learning ... Consumerism/travel It's really saddening that people bought into the false dichotomy of work VS leis
by eeZah7Ux 8y ago
> social media/games ... hobbies ... Lifelong learning ... Consumerism/travel
It's really saddening that people bought into the false dichotomy of work VS leisure.
Lifelong endeavors in science, art, activism, politics exist[ed] outside of what we call "work".
Einstein, Maxwell, Darwin and countless others are/were doing something that is not "work" and certainly not a "hobby". Call it a purpose or a mission.
Serious volunteering and activism doesn't require you to be a genius tho. There is plenty of needs that are not addressed in this world.
- mc32 8y agoThe thing is that aspect takes care of what, 1, 5, 10%? What do the rest do? What is there to be activist about once you’ve achieved a 15hr workweek globally?
- lapnitnelav 8y agoWhat's wrong with doing nothing, laying on the couch snuggling your pets / SO / family, or enjoying your friend's company around a meal / drinks?
- egypturnash 8y agoOff the top of my head: Racial equality Gender equality Rebalancing society so it’s not based on constant overconsumption Trying to reverse the results of a couple hundred years of treating the world as raw materials for industrial profit (global warming, anthropocene era mass extinction event, pacific garbage gyre, etc) AI rights maybe? Fighting people/organizations attempting to pull society back to the current levels of inequity Plus a bunch of things I am too immersed in the current situation to even imagine. Like nobody even had the concepts for “trans rights” when I was a kid but now that gay marriage is basically a done deal there’s room to fight for that.