• tomiant@piefed.social
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    “Grindset” is based in old puritan morality dictating that you must suffer in order to deserve anything, including to live. It’s still “Christian” values fucking us over.

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      I would argue it’s not really even a solid overlap with Christianity. Puritan ideals are a small subset of the overall Christian world, and might not even be the most relevant religiously centered ideals affecting our society today (prosperity gospel folks might be more politically relevant in America these days, and they are basically saying the opposite, that their religion offers promises of riches now in this life, and Catholics don’t seem as likely as Protestants to see toil as virtue).

      Perhaps more importantly, there is a strong overlap with some cultural forces in distinctly non-Christian societies, like in India and China and Singapore and stuff, where people actively preach a philosophy where people must suffer in order to develop their characters and earn happiness/prosperity. I have had colleagues from Singapore (both Chinese and Indian heritage) who talked about this kind of stuff a lot, and it’s consistent with some of the LinkedIn nonsense that I see and make fun of on a regular basis. I think the concept and the origins of these ideas are pretty far removed from Christianity.

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        Pressure turns coal into diamond - My Indian father taught me

        I don’t believe it applies to humans now tho. I believe it comes from poor people trying to justify their hardships.

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    The problem is that picnic spread is probably over $100 alone, not counting the basket.

    We still need to fucking work, we just need the people we work for to pay us anywhere remotely on the scale of survivability.

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        The work needs doing, and currently only humans can do it, so someone has to do it. The problem is with how it is handled. What we need is a system that incentivises working but allows people to thrive without doing it, which is a difficult balance.

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    1. ban advertisement
    2. bunch of jobs would not be worth it anymore
    3. more people would take on real jobs
    4. split up the work that’s left and only work 2 hours a week.
    5. just give everyone enough money
    6. profit hang out with otters
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    10 hours ago

    Then five minutes later Toad shows up with his special brand of chaos and massively fucks up the lives of these three yet again.

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    This is the inspirado I needed to make a random ass Star Trek: The Animated Series screenshot work. It’s been lingering in the back of my mind for months, but now it has a purpose. Many thanks.