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Modern life is complete garbage, if you can't find something you are passionate about. Post like this tend to completely ignore problems of people that came be

by avgDev 8y ago

Modern life is complete garbage, if you can't find something you are passionate about. Post like this tend to completely ignore problems of people that came before us. No pain meds, dying to now curable diseases, slavery and so on. Yes, I sometimes feel like I don't want to be connected, I don't want to program but do something that seems more meaningful and that I can see physically and is not so abstract. Is the world perfect? No. Is there corruption? Yes. Do farm animals often in inhumane ways? Yes. Are people selfish? Mostly. However, there is many great things about the world we live in. I suffer from existential depression but even I can reflect on the strides we've made as a species to improve our living conditions. Plus, living off grid is cool when you are young and not living with medical conditions.

winrid 8y ago
Yup, being passionate about something helps. When I was still building the cars I raced I would work on them every day, including all weekend. Did that for two years. Now I'm passionate about projects/work so I can pay people to do that but logic is the same. I'm happy. Find things that you will make excuses to do.
lm28469 8y ago
> Plus, living off grid is cool when you are young and not living with medical conditions. Depends how you see life, I don't think quantity matters as much as quality here. Maybe living fully for 50 years is bette than dying slowly for 80 years while busting your ass 5 days a week for a company. Realistically speaking, by the time the system spits you out to retirement you're physically and mentally destroyed. (US retirement: 66, avg life expectancy: 78) A lot of people keep going despite having a (perceived) miserable life because at the end of the week there is the weekend, and after 6 months there is vacations, and after a life of work there is retirement. Is that living ? I don't know, I guess everyone has to find his own answers. I don't think saying "it's worse in X country / it was worse before / there are good things in the world" really helps either, you could say that during a bubonic plague epidemic and it would still be true in a sense. The fact is lots of people don't feel fulfilled and build up resentment, you don't fix that with words. Society doesn't encourage you to be passionate about much, just do your work, watch your netflix, and come back tomorrow. If you're too sick to work we'll patch you up asap so you can come back and start working again. All that matters is your productivity and making sure that you send a good chunk of your income back in the loop. Mental and physical well being aren't a priority, see the opioid crisis, depression epidemic, obesity epidemic, pollution, &c. Thanks god previous generations fought more ferociously than us to work less and live more, we'd still be working 10 hours a day, 7 days a week otherwise [0]. The current state of global resignation is deeply disturbing. "We do not want a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation is bought by accepting the risk of dying of boredom." Raoul Vaneigem [0] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/03/how-the-8-hour-workday-changed-how-americans-work.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/03/how-the-8-hour-workday-chang... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_law

by avgDev 8y ago

winrid 8y ago

Yup, being passionate about something helps. When I was still building the cars I raced I would work on them every day, including all weekend. Did that for two years. Now I'm passionate about projects/work so I can pay people to do that but logic is the same. I'm happy. Find things that you will make excuses to do.

lm28469 8y ago

> Plus, living off grid is cool when you are young and not living with medical conditions. Depends how you see life, I don't think quantity matters as much as quality here. Maybe living fully for 50 years is bette than dying slowly for 80 years while busting your ass 5 days a week for a company. Realistically speaking, by the time the system spits you out to retirement you're physically and mentally destroyed. (US retirement: 66, avg life expectancy: 78) A lot of people keep going despite having a (perceived) miserable life because at the end of the week there is the weekend, and after 6 months there is vacations, and after a life of work there is retirement. Is that living ? I don't know, I guess everyone has to find his own answers. I don't think saying "it's worse in X country / it was worse before / there are good things in the world" really helps either, you could say that during a bubonic plague epidemic and it would still be true in a sense. The fact is lots of people don't feel fulfilled and build up resentment, you don't fix that with words. Society doesn't encourage you to be passionate about much, just do your work, watch your netflix, and come back tomorrow. If you're too sick to work we'll patch you up asap so you can come back and start working again. All that matters is your productivity and making sure that you send a good chunk of your income back in the loop. Mental and physical well being aren't a priority, see the opioid crisis, depression epidemic, obesity epidemic, pollution, &c. Thanks god previous generations fought more ferociously than us to work less and live more, we'd still be working 10 hours a day, 7 days a week otherwise [0]. The current state of global resignation is deeply disturbing. "We do not want a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation is bought by accepting the risk of dying of boredom." Raoul Vaneigem [0] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/03/how-the-8-hour-workday-changed-how-americans-work.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/03/how-the-8-hour-workday-chang... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_law