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I don't understand at all. Because you (in my opinion, erroneously) believe that you need to work some X% harder than the last generation to accomplish the same
by thegrim33 2y ago
I don't understand at all. Because you (in my opinion, erroneously) believe that you need to work some X% harder than the last generation to accomplish the same thing you're just not going to try?
What about pretty much every generation prior to the last, who had to toil in hard labor most days, who often didn't have indoor plumbing, who often didn't even have electricity, who went off to war, did they have any easier time being "successful" than you? Did they just give up and not try? Do you honestly believe you're worse off in 2024 than they were? That you're working harder than they were?
I'm not even going to touch the climate dread stuff as climate change is a topic that can not be impartially discussed anymore.
- yoyohello13 2y agoSo what’s the difference between the past and now? Maybe having corporations profiting off of people’s attention and fear is not a good thing.
- jeremyt 2y agoSocial media. That’s the difference.
- krisoft 2y agoI don’t think you are saying the same thing. You are saying this; > you need to work some X% harder than the last generation to accomplish the same thing And this is the contrasting bit from the comment you are responding: > working hard won't get you anything close to what previous generations had The difference is that your sentence says they have to work harder to achieve the same, while their comment says that even if they work hard they can’t achieve the same. That is two very different things.
- raindeer2 2y agoThe reason that ppl give up now is not that it is worse now than before, but rather the opposite. Now you can do almost nothing productive and still survive. Before, you would simply starve to death.