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If you believe that thankless, pointless busywork is a virtue, then surely, Sisyphus must be the most virtuous man of them all.
by ACCount37 1y ago
If you believe that thankless, pointless busywork is a virtue, then surely, Sisyphus must be the most virtuous man of them all.
- the_other 1y agoCleaning is pointless?
- simultsop 1y agoIf there's an automated system to do it for you conveniently, it becomes.
- browningstreet 1y agoAll the mindfulness threads on this site would like a word.
- Citizen_Lame 1y agoIt is, but we want our habitat to be clean. If robots can fight entropy for us, all the better.
- 4b11b4 1y agoI have come to think cleaning is actually one of the most virtuous acts for a human. Even more so as we live in societies which produce waste as a fundamental mode of operation
- Blumplumi 1y agoFunny enough, i'm 38 now and often enough thankless and 'pointless' busywork sometimes feels like a virtue. But only for me because I have the feeling i lived out my normal environment and i'm not rich enough yet to expand so I can become busy again in a more meaningful way. Specifically having a big house/workshop to do things in my future workshop.
- GuinansEyebrows 1y agobeing aware of and tending to your immediate environment (including cleaning it) is not thankless, pointless busywork. it's important to maintain some level of relationship to your environment; the more we disengage with it, the likelier we are to care less for it or the people who share it.
- lm28469 1y agoOur lives are thankless pointless busy work in the end, I feel like the end game of transhumanists is just having us all in Matrix style pods, 100% efficient, no pain, no waste