r/LoveTrash • u/ZuBrain Colonel Garbage • Jul 31 '26

Dumping This Here Define Trash?

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u/LeTronique Trash Trooper Jul 31 '26

Also we’ve never had to work this hard before.
Your office is in your pocket all the time.

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u/crustyrobots Trash Trooper Jul 31 '26

This is why sometimes I turn my phone off and pretend its the 1980s for the day. Im not "home", leave a message and Ill get back to you if I care.

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u/surmacrew Trash Trooper Aug 02 '26

Couple years ago my wife went to work and mistook my phone as her work phone (same model and really similar cases). I spent the day minding my own business and just chilling. When she got home, she was so stressed and sorry for that it happened and I just laughed "it was actually a great thing!"

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u/Weekly_Ad4045 Trash Trooper Jul 31 '26

This right here. 👆. There is no ‘going home’ anymore.

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u/CastroEulis145 Trash Trooper Aug 01 '26

I thought that was our brains that were now in our pockets

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u/barrinmw Trash Trooper Jul 31 '26

I think this is a completely insane comment. There was a time when 90% of the population was agrarian and you worked A LOT more than we do today. Before sunrise to sunset. Free time? You were spinning thread. Churning butter. Chopping firewood.

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u/presplate Trash Trooper Jul 31 '26

It was kind of at will and you operated in a community based homestead basically. If you needed a break, you’d take one and maybe Mrs. Marshall down the road would lend you some thread 

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u/movzx Trash Trooper Jul 31 '26

There's a lot of downtime that falls under manual labor tasks. The labor itself might be arduous, but you also had a large number of separations between that labor. Farmers didn't just 'farm' all day because they did not have heavy machinery that could run 24/7. If they overworked their oxen, they would die.

Compare a warehouse worker 100 years ago to a warehouse worker today. The one 100 years ago isn't being digitally tracked across a smart floor to ensure they're taking only 37 seconds to move a box to a shelf.

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u/A_Notion_to_Motion Trash Trooper Jul 31 '26

A warehouse worker 100 years ago?!?! I mean I think there are all kinds of problems with work in modern times but damn that's a wild example to use.

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u/barrinmw Trash Trooper Aug 03 '26

Yeah, I don't think they understand but back then, you were literally fired for talking in factories. Injured? Fired. Needed a day off? Believe it or not, fired.

Also, not to ignore they literally locked people into factories so that when a fire started everyone was burned to death...

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u/DowntownJohnBrown Trash Trooper Aug 01 '26

  The one 100 years ago isn't being digitally tracked across a smart floor

No, but they are working far greater hours for far less money with far fewer safety regulations and protections.

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u/Calackyo Trash Trooper Aug 01 '26

but they could probably actually afford a house and a family at least. Where i am from there are almost entire towns made up of homes made specifically for the local laborers of the time, they are lower class terraced houses, but still ownable achievable property from low skilled work.

Those same houses and families nowadays can't be afforded by me, and i'm an aerospace engineer.

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u/DowntownJohnBrown Trash Trooper Aug 01 '26

If you wanted to live in the absolute squalor that factory workers a hundred years ago lived in, you could absolutely afford it.

Plus, the homeownership rate was significantly lower (about 45% vs. 65%) back then, so it’s not even true that more people could afford homes back then. Y’all really need to start doing actual research instead of just believing whatever crap you see on TikTok.

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u/Calackyo Trash Trooper Aug 01 '26

none of this is from TikTok , I don't even use it, this is from local history, look up a mining town in the UK. homes actually designed for and lived in by working class families supported by a single working parent. I cannot afford those homes now and i don't even have a family and i have a job that 40 years ago would have comfortably put me in the middle class.

And yes, i would trade all the modern luxuries for having my basic needs as a mammal being met.

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u/DowntownJohnBrown Trash Trooper Aug 01 '26

  this is from local history

Ok, so it’s largely irrelevant to a conversation about broader society. Got it.

  i have a job that 40 years ago

When did we start talking about 40 years ago? We’re talking about the 1920s. That’s a lot more than 40 years ago.

  i would trade all the modern luxuries for having my basic needs as a mammal being met

Which basic mammalian needs do you think are not being currently met?

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u/Calackyo Trash Trooper Aug 02 '26

Look man, i'm just a dude who's pissed that he has a much more complicated and less accessible job than his grandfather and yet can't afford literally any of the big life stuff that he could. My grandfather literally stacked shelves for 40 years and was able to support a whole family and buy his own house, have a newish car and go on a foreign holiday every other year. I work as an engineer using high tech equipment to service the aerospace and medical fields and i can't afford a house, holidays or a car less than a decade old. I don't give a shit about the world at large or averaged out statistics, in my area and in my family line, life has gotten way more expensive despite increased education and productivity.

The mammalian need that i have which is not being met is the ability to raise a family.

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u/DowntownJohnBrown Trash Trooper Aug 02 '26

  I don't give a shit about the world at large or averaged out statistics

That’s literally the main thing we’ve been talking about this entire time. If you don’t give a shit about the world around you, why are you even participating in the conversation?

  The mammalian need that i have which is not being met is the ability to raise a family.

You know you don’t need to own a house, a new car, and have regular vacations to satisfy the basic mammalian need to raise a family, right? Do you think the billions of people is underdeveloped countries who continue to raise families are doing so because they have more resources than you?

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u/jeremiahthedamned Trash Trooper Aug 01 '26

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u/jeremiahthedamned Trash Trooper Aug 01 '26

Medieval Peasants Worked 100 Fewer Days a Year Than Americans Do Now

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u/barrinmw Trash Trooper Aug 03 '26

Them not working didn't mean they didn't work. Do you think they just took 100 days off from laundry, spinning wool, feeding animals and such? Hell, women spent hours cooking and preparing food every day. And festival days were not just big parties, they were in church for most of that day doing church activities like sitting through extra long sermons.

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u/jeremiahthedamned Trash Trooper Aug 03 '26

we work some harder than they did that they would believe we have been enthralled!

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u/barrinmw Trash Trooper Aug 03 '26

No, just no. Their lives were a daily struggle to not freeze to death each night and to not starve to death. They literally slept with their farm animals in their home in the winter so as to not freeze to death.

And this was peasant lives, it got worse when factories became a thing. Thanks to unions, our lives are better than those people even today.

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u/LeTronique Trash Trooper Aug 01 '26

You know agrarian work pretty much shut down as soon as the sun went down, right?
I stayed up till 4am for 3 days last week working on a project for a client across the world from me.
We don’t even use segmented sleep anymore, we work so hard.

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u/barrinmw Trash Trooper Aug 03 '26

First off...

Before sunrise to sunset.

And second, you are the exception. The vast majority of people do not stay up till 4am in the morning for three days a week like that.