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Please actually read the article. You couldn't be further from the truth. This isn't about people temporarily out of a job for whom having a lot of free time i

by brazzy 6y ago

Please actually read the article. You couldn't be further from the truth. This isn't about people temporarily out of a job for whom having a lot of free time is a breath of fresh air. This is about people who have spent decades without a job or on-and-off underpaid jobs because they missed a critical, narrow window in their lives where full-time employment with actual career prospects was available. They feel stifled and useless, not creative.

plutonorm 6y ago
I have understood the article. I am saying for a minority this will be a liberation from duty and will allow for their natural creativity to express itself. Many will feel stifled, useless and un creative - but a few will have an opportunity to create that a normal life would not have afforded them.
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t0mbstone 6y ago
I read the article and all I could think was, "wow, what a load of excuses". The idea that you can only get a job if you take advantage of a critical window in your life is nonsense. There is plenty of work for people who are willing to work. For example, you could go door to door in your apartment complex and offer to take people's trash out to the dumpster. You could offer to clean their house, wash their dishes, do their laundry, walk their dogs, whatever. Mow people's lawns, weed their flowers, whatever. If you are trustworthy and reliable and even slightly entrepreneurial, you will have more work than you know what to do with. It might not pay well (or hardly at all) at first, but it will build over time. But instead, these losers are sitting at home watching anime and listening to K-Pop and moaning about how they missed their window of opportunity, while they live off their parents for years. Gimme a friggin break. I could definitely see this as being an issue with culture and depression, though. If the culture represses and shames entrepreneurs or people doing menial labor, for example, that would be a big issue. And if you are depressed, it's hard to find motivation to get out there and work and be rejected by all of the people who turn you down as you go door to door.
- brazzy 6y ago
  > If the culture represses and shames entrepreneurs or people doing menial labor, for example, that would be a big issue. You nailed it. In Japan, if you did that kind of thing it would be hugely shameful for your entire family. People will go to great lengths to hide the fact that they don't have a conventional job. > And if you are depressed, it's hard to find motivation to get out there and work and be rejected by all of the people who turn you down as you go door to door. And of course the first point above amplifies any tendency for depression that people may already have.

by brazzy 6y ago

plutonorm 6y ago

I have understood the article. I am saying for a minority this will be a liberation from duty and will allow for their natural creativity to express itself. Many will feel stifled, useless and un creative - but a few will have an opportunity to create that a normal life would not have afforded them.

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t0mbstone 6y ago

I read the article and all I could think was, "wow, what a load of excuses". The idea that you can only get a job if you take advantage of a critical window in your life is nonsense. There is plenty of work for people who are willing to work. For example, you could go door to door in your apartment complex and offer to take people's trash out to the dumpster. You could offer to clean their house, wash their dishes, do their laundry, walk their dogs, whatever. Mow people's lawns, weed their flowers, whatever. If you are trustworthy and reliable and even slightly entrepreneurial, you will have more work than you know what to do with. It might not pay well (or hardly at all) at first, but it will build over time. But instead, these losers are sitting at home watching anime and listening to K-Pop and moaning about how they missed their window of opportunity, while they live off their parents for years. Gimme a friggin break. I could definitely see this as being an issue with culture and depression, though. If the culture represses and shames entrepreneurs or people doing menial labor, for example, that would be a big issue. And if you are depressed, it's hard to find motivation to get out there and work and be rejected by all of the people who turn you down as you go door to door.

brazzy 6y ago
> If the culture represses and shames entrepreneurs or people doing menial labor, for example, that would be a big issue. You nailed it. In Japan, if you did that kind of thing it would be hugely shameful for your entire family. People will go to great lengths to hide the fact that they don't have a conventional job. > And if you are depressed, it's hard to find motivation to get out there and work and be rejected by all of the people who turn you down as you go door to door. And of course the first point above amplifies any tendency for depression that people may already have.