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TLDR: "Don't hate the player, hate the game".
by merelydev 1mo ago
TLDR: "Don't hate the player, hate the game".
- Forgeties79 1mo ago“Also, I have no intention of acknowledging that not all people have an equal chance at winning the game, nor doing anything about it for that matter.”
- AJMaxwell 1mo agoNo, we really should hate the players. They are keeping the game from changing.
- genxy 1mo agoA small number of players set the rules of the game.
- account42 1mo agoA players collectively choose that everyone must follow those rules.
- rglover 1mo agoNo sarcasm: play a different game. If you play their game, of course you'll suffer. But if you play a game they're repulsed by, you can win a life they'll never have access to: one filled with people who love and respect you and an environment where your best self and life can emerge.
- AlotOfReading 1mo agoThe parent comments are talking about how the game is negatively impacting society. Your suggestion is to check out and leave society to them. One of the many problems with that suggestion is that it's hard for your best self/life to emerge in a bleak future.
- butlike 1mo agoI think it's possible to "pick and choose" to some extent. I've found most of the bleak future stuff goes away if I turn off my phone, but since I need it to contact people in 2026, I try and give things their due, and, to the best of my ability, ignore the more unpleasant aspects of modern life. I think the landline telephone is a good example. It was fun to chit-chat with friends on the phone, but when a telemarketer called, I either hung up immediately, or said "stop calling," then hung up. It can be the same way in modern society. Weight the conversations with warm-bodied people higher, and stop scrolling as much (to put it overly-simplistically).
- AndrewKemendo 1mo agoYou can’t ignore climate change
- butlike 1mo agofair
- datadrivenangel 1mo agoIgnoring it is a tradition at this point in the US...
- qwerpy 1mo agoIt’s done wonders for my free time and mood by deleting my Reddit account and restricting HN to toilet time. Instead of reading rage bait American news I do a daily scan of BBC. All those are sources of negativity and stress that bring nothing of value to your life. I invest my newfound time and energy into my family, hobbies, and health.
- butlike 1mo agoNice. That feels like the correct way to me
- rglover 1mo ago
- nrb 1mo agoWhat if their game is to flip the boards of everyone else’s games?
- rglover 1mo agoThen so be it. Hopefully they've considered all of the angles and can defend themselves against people being radicalized to the point of hunting them down. Turns out their obsession with moats was prescient.
- tavavex 1mo agoYou can, of course, distance yourself from their world and work on things they would never see as valuable. However, you can't check out of the most grand game we're playing, the game of life and existence. Those people desperately want to toy with things that could eventually prevent you from being able to live a life where you still have food, water and shelter. You can ignore it while they're still not all-powerful, but as their wealth and influence grows, you will eventually have to confront it.
- latexr 1mo agoThat’s a cop-out. It’s the most powerful “players” who are making the “game” what it is, and they make the rules be whatever benefits them. It would be pretty reasonable to hate the player who brings a machine gun to a stadium, kills every opponent to start scoring and when people complain says “Nothing in the rules says we can’t kill other players to score. If I didn’t gun everyone down, the opposing team would’ve. Don’t hate the player, hate the game”.
- cpt_sobel 1mo agoYes this is their reasoning, it doesn't mean we shouldn't hate the players and the game alike
- bdelmas 1mo agoIt’s not the players we should hate but the ones who make the rules of the game. Specifically not the ones who make the rules for the greater good but for themselves.
- merelydev 1mo agoThat is like hating a hacker who hacks into your vulnerable server that is outdated and allows ssh password login. If there is vulnerabilities in the system someone will eventually exploit them, sure not you or me but there is always someone out there that will.
- toomanyrichies 1mo agoThat same hacker can choose to responsibly disclose the vulnerability through the proper channels, or take advantage of it to benefit themselves at the expense of others. Which one they choose objectively determines the quality of person they are.
- merelydev 1mo agoThat is how we find ourselves in this mess, we design systems thinking only of everything that can go right and not what can go wrong.
- pyvpx 1mo agoWhat game has David Ellison been playing? The same as yours or perhaps slightly different? Does that difference matter?
- boelboel 1mo agoThat's what thiefs say
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