And it never changes...
At least some communities online are open to talking about it, I guess. Still feels like brainworms leeching off their hosts, though.
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This shit's been going on since at least 1349
Because a great part of the people, and especially of workmen and servants late died of the pestilence, many seeing the necessity of masters, and great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages, and some rather willing to beg in idleness, than by labour to get their living; we, considering the grievous incommodities, which of the lack especially of ploughmen and such labourers may hereafter come, have upon deliberation and treaty with the prelates and the nobles, and learned men assisting us, of their counsel ordained:
Yeah...it's such a struggle lol. I appreciate you adding to my old screenshot, though. I missed how well-read hexbears are.
IIRC there's ancient Greeks complaining about similar shit from like 3000 BC lol. Boomer is a state of mind and Plato's parents probably whined he spent all day ~~shitposting~~ debating with plebs at the forum instead of watching goats or whatever the fuck.
The 1349 one stands out to me because I learned about it when the Brandon regime was busy cancelling all the pandemic health measures for the economy
I loathe the common misconception that being a good little workhorse and working yourself to death is somehow a sign of strength. I could understand if it was for a good cause, but they're demanding people kill themselves slowly for some CEOs baby killing machine.
Yeah, it's fucked because (in my experience anyway) those same people pushing that narrative look down on others as though they're beneath them. They look up to those wielding power because they want that power for themselves and it makes them feel important by buying into the 'grindset'.
I worked hard, had more savings built up than I'd ever had before, so much I was able to even help cover a friend's cancer treatment!!!!!! Was looking at preparing to do more stuff and then my life fell apart all of a sudden, lost my job, crippling depression, now I'm broke and would be homeless and starving if my parents hadn't been able to step in and support me (for now? idk how long but I'm still incapacitated and not really thinking about long term survival right now).
But it just really drives home how fucking pointless this racket is. My mental health went kind of to shit from working so much, it was hard on my relationship and that was one (not the main, I think but a non-negligible one) contributor to it falling apart and my life getting ruined.
Fuck this racket, fuck capitalism, fuck work culture fuck it all. Yeah I don't want to work anymore, it's pointless and everything I worked for, all those savings, just fucking evaporated from one big life crisis that may not have happened if I hadn't even been working so much.
Thank you, comrade
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Theyre right. about me st least.
I dont wanna fucking work anymore. Im fkn tired. My back and knees hurt from crawling thru tunnels to fix broken pvc and cut out 75 year old cast iron. My hands hurt. My feet hurt from constant 14 hour shifts.
Im wrecking my body and the last bit of good health i have left so rich assholes can have swimming pools, and bedroom sized showers that use 5-10 times the EPA's water usage guidelines because fuck everyone else.
Im tired boss, or whatever the meme is.
This. It fucking pisses me off how it's never enough.
Nobody wants to hire anymore
No one wants to treat people like human beings anymore. They treat people like crap and then wonder why those people don't work well with others. It's circus.
Beat me to it.
Our whole generation is having a hard time ever starting our lives because employers are basically just ignoring us to death.
I feel immensely lucky to have a job where I can do nearly nothing for most of the time and there’s not a goddamn thing any micromanaging asshole can do about it
>drive to airport
>meet crew, exchange pleasantries
>preflight briefing, we’re ready, let’s rock and roll
>plane checks out, board the pax
>call for pushback, get us out of here
>taxi taxi taxi
>cleared for takeoff, thrust set, lfg
>climb to cruise, deal with asshole controller
>coast out over Pacific Ocean
>12 hours of nothing
>pull out novel and crossword puzzles
>position report every hour
>shoot the shit with other planes over the radio
>relief time, clocking out of consciousness
>relief time, back in the hot seat
>1 more hour for crosswords
>coast in to China, approach briefing, let’s land this thing
>touch down, taxi in, everybody get off
>breeze through crew customs line
>get in van to hotel
>eat sleep repeat
Oh my god I want what you have so badly 
Pls smuggle to to your job I only require beans
I feel like being a commercial pilot is similar to my job, in that it's pretty chill unless something outside of your control goes wrong, at which point it becomes immensely stressful.
It boils my piss
I love your way with words
I am this instances Beter Gribbin
Tbf I really don’t want to work anymore
Doing nothing should be the ultimate goal of humanity. I want to lay in the grass like a sheep, listening to birds and eat stuff.
Valid. The grind will do that to you. It kills your love of getting something done.
It's not like the work is making the world better. We're not piling sandbags before a rising flood and the young people won't get off their dang smart phones. The "work" is like selling insurance for wireless earbuds or putting seventeen pumps of seasonal-themed sugar syrup into a latte. Fuck off. If anything this "work" should be done poorly. Because it's killing the planet and putting microplastics in our brains. We're generating revenue for the fascist misogynist tech sector patriarchs by zapping our brains with ad riddled media because, apparently, that generates revenue in this stupid fucktodeath world. Somewhere out there thirty million kids are getting yelled at to buy a product by an AI generated voice and that's the reason some fucking dipshit who thinks "roko's basilisk" is real can afford to buy a giant house.
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Whining olds should thank their lucky stars this awful machinery is able to coerce even lackluster participation from young people. Because they should be murdering all of us in preemptive revenge for what we've done to them.
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You're right, I don't want to work, I don't even want to leave my house. Piss off already.
Yeah, fuck it. Yes, I am a sensitive, empathy filled millennial. I like a light atmosphere, friendly people, working efficiently not hard, I call dogs heckin' puppers and I fucking hate getting out of bed to work for my corporate master. Deal with it. I'd rather stay the stereotype than bully young people and turn into whatever my fellow 33-45 peers are turning into. I'd rather be cringe than a bully.
Fellow members in my PSL branch openly talk about how much we like cute things such as plushies and Pokemon and which kids' shows we like (Arthur is based, Paw Patrol is cringe), all while doing way more actual socialist work than any of the Strasserist losers who would try to shame us for it.
People act like we're uniquely "stuck in childhood" but my parents were the same. My mom is like 60 and still watches cartoons.
Yo, same, UBI when
boils my piss
Yep, that's Dirt_Owl alright
People dislike doing things that are unrewarding, more news at 11.
I used to have that people-pleasing hard-working country-boy attitude. Long long ago. It died when I realized no business gives a flying fuck about me and will pay me next to nothing and smile to my face and pat me on the head.
Now I can't even fake that I'm a hard worker. I don't care enough. I just want the check and I'll do the minimum to get it.
I'm a burnt out and tired husk right now, but thats only because I'm job hunting as a fresh graduate...
That will do it to you. I'm feel for you, it's a rough time.
Yeah I think it’s true both ways right? People don’t want to work, because working under capitalism sucks, and then that creates a shitty environment for everyone involved. And then people being pissed for that but not recognizing it’s because of capitalism and instead think it’s a personal defect are assholes and that creates a shitty environment for everyone involved. And it’ll keep getting worse, on both ends of that. And that’s just how the decay of the empire is gonna go. It’ll suck to have your surplus value exchanged for your labor, and it’ll suck to purchase anything from anybody. Until everything breaks
You worded it way better than I could
I like my job but I don't wanna work
Mood
Everyone at my work who's younger than me works way harder. Often it's cause they're younger and aren't a very experienced and indispensable part of the business,my being canned would fuck the place up BIG time so I operate with a lot less fear and really try to endorse efficiently over hard work and also cause it's a kitchen to get people to stop giving 'help' that isn't asked for 'stop trying to help me and help me' yo paralhrase Morpheus. Where say there's an order for 3 pizzas that's a one person job and often someone will drop whatever they're doing to go help, that isn't necessary or useful, keep doing what your doing and let people both ask for help when needed and also when you go to help someone they're thr one cling the shots, the asker should instruct the person helping and the helper should ask what helps best. Having people jump in and finish orders that are 3 chits away from what I'm doing doesn't actually do anything for me. 'What can I do for you?' Is the first thing to say when offering help. Otherwise you're imposing 'help'
also when you go to help someone they're thr one cling the shots, the asker should instruct the person helping and the helper should ask what helps best. Having people jump in and finish orders that are 3 chits away from what I'm doing doesn't actually do anything for me. 'What can I do for you?' Is the first thing to say when offering help. Otherwise you're imposing 'help'
Omg yes, this.
Any real aide begins with communication. Someone has to be able to ask what is needed and the other person might also need to be willing to ask for help and know what kind if help they need. Mutual aide, mutual responsibility. Ask for what you need and ask what people need.
As someone on the spectrum, it pains me to no end when I'm expected to read people's minds.
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The cognitive dissonance of the generational slap fighting frustrates the hell outta me. Take any social commentary, documentary, movie, involving young people from like 1960 until today and you’ll see the exact same young people bashing over and over again.
What especially fucks me up is that it seems like people want to believe this weird, sad fairy tale that “we’re the last good & sane generation.” It’s painfully obvious to me that there are good and crazy people of all age groups and walks of life why are people so entrenched in the ideal of stereotyping??
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To paraphrase a certain Karl Marx, from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.
Instead of having a bunch of BS jobs that don't actually contribute to society, we should have a society that meets everyone's needs first, and then let the people contribute back to society in the way that they can.
I think more people would genuinely want to "work" if they could work on their passion projects, or would agree to work somewhere because they actually want to do the thing to contribute back to society.
If you're reading this and saying, well, nobody would want to do [insert position], then there's no excuse for not devoting resources to either automate the task or improve working conditions to make that no longer the case.
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It boils my piss
does this idiom mean your fosters is warm or that it burns when you go to the loo?
there's always someone willing to work, the only thing that's wrong is the price if no one wants it.
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