When anthropologists study people who still hunt and gather for their food (e.g., the Hadza), what they do more than anything is... nothing in particular. Not hunting, foraging, building, repairing weapons/clothing/housing, socializing, etc. just... chilling.

Their lives are incredibly hard and I wouldn't trade places with them, but the idea that the natural state of people is hustling is false. People hustled for their food, then rested once they had it. Some days they hunt from dawn to dusk, other days they found a beehive and chilled.

Unpopular opinion: working ONE full time job for full time hours in exchange for getting paid a living wage with not a lot of absolutely absurd strings and conditions attached to it is actually a good situation to be in. The problem is they want us to work well beyond full time hours, at multiple jobs since the cost of living is price fixed, for less than a living wage while passing thc drug tests every 5 minutes. I want to use my tech degrees for ANYTHING besides primarily passing thc tests, the only goddamn thing they care about most of the time. I thought they needed SKILLS.

This is the worst and stupidest timeline and so is everyone who agrees this is how things should me.

I swear to fuck I'm going to learn 3d modelling and start pumping out bulk quantities of 3d porn for money if I have to but the world is a fucking joke right now.

It only feels wrong to me on every level, outside of that it is totally normal.

They've been bred to believe this makes you a great person. NOT doing it makes you lazy.

I was forced to do this terrible thing in order to not starve. Instead of doing anything about it, I think that we should make anyone who didn't suffer as much have to do that terrible thing in order to not starve. Otherwise they do not deserve it.

Me when I realize survival means constantly fighting against entropy.

Especially when You realize, we are producing like twice what we need.

Cries in 10+ hours a day, 6 days a week.

Can't believe people actually allow people like this to have an audience. Have you ever tried to grow enough food to eliminate the need to go to the grocery store?

It's funny to me how some think this is some hidden knowledge. Yeah plenty know it sucks but also know that without work they won't eat

I do think a large part of the "wrong" part of this is due to the US(Lemmy?(Earlier: Reddit)) mindset that you should hate your coworkers for some reason.

I am fairly good friends with all my coworkers. Very good in some cases. I am with these people up to 8 hours a day, and I'm having a blast.

I don't think it's the concept of work that is the problem here. I might guess it's the culture that incenticed pushing those around you down to get a foot up

Reject modernity, return to hunter-gatherer

It's ok if you can retire with benefits and a pension. Anything else is exploitation

No no no. We know. We also know that there's SFA we can do about it because our government has long since been bought and paid for by the very same people who "generously" "give" us the opportunity to slave away generation profit for them and their shareholder friends, so they can be rich and get richer, while we barely scrape by with the scraps they convince us is from their generosity.

Government long since abandoned us, ever since the boomers stopped caring about unions, which is around the same time they were all making shitloads of money as senior management, and unions actually started to harm their ability to make more money.

Goodbye unions, goodbye decent working conditions and reasonable, transparent wage schedules. Goodbye to the middle class....

Shits fucked, we're all to busy fighting amongst ourselves, trying not to starve, and screaming over the Epstein files to figure out that we need to band together to fix this shit.

I know why you all want to see the Epstein shit, but here's a spoiler, pretty much everyone with any money, power, or influence, is on the fucking list, and if they're not, they should be, because they've been raping the rest of us for a good long time now.