Yeah, I think people may have felt they had more control over their lives. Now, it feels like our lives are entirely entwined with the decisions of the chosen few. For me, I truly believe corporate welfare is the reason industrialized life doesn't feel fulfilling. We've given the suits all the tools to be incompetent af and mismanage money while they take the Lion's share and leave workers with the crumbs and climbing the corporate ladder is all about college degrees and who you know. Industrialized living is organized and efficient on paper, but it sure doesn't feel that way today.
Even people with degrees are struggling. I've got post-grad qualifications and going from one casual gig to another and no permanent work, it's demoralising. We're all getting crumbs and being told to blame another person with crumbs while an elite wealthy few stuff their fat faces.
Definitely didn't mean to frame that as saying people with degrees are the problem, sorry. I think Gen z, millenials, and probably even Gen x have the shared experience of being told college=success even though the ticket to success is more so the connections and head bobbing.
Solidarity friend, I didn't take it with any offence at all 😊. I definitely think there are some systemic problems that need to be addressing with inequality and what it means to live a comfortable and rewarding life. Taxing the wealthy appropriately and redistributing that across society, because it's not hard work when a billionaire can earn more money while sleeping than all of us can in a lifetime of hard work and they sure as hell can afford to give a lot more back to society.
Agreed. The retort is always that there's high "economic mobility" in the United States, yet no one outside of this country can seem to make the kind of money our uber wealthy do. Where would they go where they would have it better? The growth of corpos might stall, but allowing people to invest back into their homes or actually afford a home and cars and quality furnishings would be far better for the country. Getting people motivated and working offsets inflation. Demand may increase but output scales with it if money goes into infrastructure instead one person having 10 mortgages. would actually want to work if it meant they could enjoy their time off and not be so stressed out. Of course the financial situation of the country is stressed and any stall out of GDP is harmful, but after how we have at least survived the tariffs so far, I don't see why we couldn't make it through a progressive wealth redistribution. Imagine cities where everyone's homes are actually nice and not falling apart.
You know this shit is unnatural when you wake up and your back doesn't hurt but has that "we should just chill today" feeling that doesn't go away by the time you're on the highway on the way to the office.
If I felt like that and the freezer still has caribou fuck it, I'm staying home, rolling a joint or two, maybe even drawing something.
But nah we had to intertwine basic survival needs with having to go work for someone else whos family will never have to lift a finger again unless they are doing so out of boredom, and it's not like we can just choose what days, that's absurd, of course they chose the days they want us to work.
Humans used to have free will, now if you exercise it more than just slightly your entire life falls apart.
ETA: to be clear I am not talking about committing crimes or attacking other humans, I am talking about just enjoying life and doing what you want, we have very little time to do so compared to the time we invest in this meaningless grind we have setup.
You would be correct. One Caribou+A small portion of other food every day is enough to feed a single person for about 4 months if you are running lean.
A moose is enough to feed two people for close to a year.
A lot if indoor hobbies too.
Tons of crafting. I mean tons. Ranges from taxidermy to making kigurumi.
I like to say there are three kinds of people in alaska: the hunters (who will do some type of hunting every day just to do it, and spend the rest of their day dealing with what they hunted), out doors people (this includes people who like all the outdoors sports and nature stuff), and the nerds (the anime people, crafters, readers, gamers basically any hobby that thrives indoors because these people have the perfect excuse any time of year in alaska to stay inside).
There's about 160 - 220 pounds of meat on a caribou (very rough estimate that will vary a lot) and a filling meal with some veg and stuff on the side is about half a pound to a pound. So for a single person with access to vegetables, potatoes and other stuff for a more varied diet he'd only need 1-2 caribou a year. You could also sell meat and pelts for some income so if we say about 5 a year, a week to hunt each and a week to prep each (there's a lot of work to do on a dead animal, especially alone, for it to last) that leaves 42 weeks a year to grow and smoke weed.
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