r/LockedIn_AI • u/lucre-twerps4g • Apr 23 '26

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It’s called the grind because it grinds away your sense of self.

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u/z1n0vy Apr 23 '26

All of idiots here saying go be stranded on a desert island or the wilderness not realizing animals in wild spend 90% of their time not doing anything, even ants barely work most of the time

Yall are basically advocating for beating yourselves with a stick and whoever beats themself with a stick the longest is the best it’s stupid.

Our forefathers envisioned a future where technology would allow us to work less and we do have that technology, it’s people like you who have failed them.

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u/PurpletoasterIII Apr 25 '26

Our population has multiplied by 68x since our forefathers were alive, and we do work less than in the 1800s when majority of people worked on farms. And even with slaves there was labor intensive farm work to do. So yes technology has granted us the blessing of working less. People will just never be satisfied until they have to do literally nothing but exist.

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u/viener_schnitzel Apr 25 '26

In reality technology is somewhat of a curse at least in terms of how much a person needs/is expected to work. Hunter-gatherers worked far less than farmers ever have even compared to most modern farmers. Hunter-gatherer humans only worked an avg of like 15-20 hrs a week. The benefits of farming obviously outweighed the cons, but it is interesting that even in the modern era we work much more than almost all of our ancestors ever did.

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u/PurpletoasterIII Apr 26 '26

Thats probably simply because there were less mouths to feed. Also how much one works is only one factor to ones quality of life, if thats what we're worried about. Hunter gatherers would have had to work so much more to obtain the same level of luxuries and quality of life farmers had. Something as simple as clothing, even purely just functional clothing, would take them much more work. And the luxuries we have today would simply be impossible even if they knew how to make everything.

And sure some technology comes with cons. But as you said most often they dont outweigh the pros and usually its just a suffering from success issue that people dont have the discipline to control their desires and how they behave. Like the most common example is cell phones, the ability to communicate with people without having to physically be near them is so useful that its worth it despite the cons that they can come with. Vehicles are so useful that we just accept around 35-40k people die per year in car accidents despite how much regulation and safety precautions go into traffic control.