Are people like me - for whom every moment spent thinking about the need for money is a moment spent in anguish - just not supposed to exist?
Yeah, this.
The real key is to get in, get paid, and get out, and try not to get addicted to prestige or consumption in the process (which is hard when everyone else is addicted to prestige and consumption).
Edit: Also the entire economy would collapse if everyone did this, which is why it, itself, is a utopian vision of capitalism. Capitalism only works if the vast majority of real capital is constantly moving. The precarity is the point.
The utopian capitalist answer is that this is a flaw in your brain, a symptom of an illness. They will tell you that the healthy human brain will allow you to be happy and find meaning in any and all situations because there exists someone somewhere who could.
"if holocaust survivor X is happy, you will own nothing, and you will be happy!"
"This man has no legs and hustlegrinded his way into shingling a roof. What's your excuse?" :capitalist-laugh: :bootlicker:
Money is energy and we are all made of energy so if you're poor it's cause you want to be. What's Calvinism, never heard of it, try shrooms bro.
The claim that shrooms/psychedelics are a consistent and reliable way to make people more empathic was quickly dispelled for me by meeting one too many Silicon Valley sociopaths that came out the other side claiming it was empathy to see their own face everywhere into infinity or other narcissistic shit interpretations like that. It was garbage in, garbage out. See also Joe Rogan.
Capitalism is voluntary, just move. Unfortunately we have made it illegal for you to simply move to a different place under your own power. It's going to cost you a lot of money and a few drops of government permission. If you truly want to leave this purely voluntary system, you merely have to participate in this voluntary system to accumulate enough wealth for the proper documents and travel. Hope this heeeellllllped
Would they actually take you? It would take a few months for me to get there but the river I'm near does lead to the Mississippi which would lead to the Gulf which I could follow until Florida and then the ~90 mile open water journey and I just want out of this fucking place
That's the neat part, they don't need an answer, they already have power. They just need excuses, and they don't even have to be good.
less than 200 years ago the vast majority of people were farmers and could live on their own for the most part. before the industrial revolution it was like that for most of the planet. The industrial revolution really fucked up the "natural order."
Farming was already a mistake. Humans were not meant to do agriculture.
:a-guy: retvrn to walking slowly at gazelles until they die of heat exhaustion
The elites don't want you to know this but the food in the ground is free. You can dig it up with a stick while following a seasonal route timed around exploiting food resources. I have 458 horned melons at home!
I'm being told that the elites have made taking the food from the ground illegal and will have monopolized state violence employed to prevent it from being eaten
The "Tragedy of the Commons" is that the British didn't kill and eat their nobility in the 1300s.
You're supposed to get some pills that will "fix" your brain.
How are you supposed to pay for the pills and the doctors to prescribe it to you? Well that's one of those pesky contradictions of capitalism that Marx talked about.
You are granted the freedom to lay in a ditch and die, but may get shot in that ditch if that ditch is private property. :capitalist-laugh:
This is the role non-profits get to play in capitalism. They exist to create the veneer of do-goodery. In reality they accumulate power and profit off workers in the same ways as for-profiits but because they do so at a lower rate they are the pressure release valve for workers who want purpose in their toil.
Probably living off stocks, crypto and the like. (And if you fail, it's your fault)
Feeling this hard right now. I just wanna be outside but work. Can I just look at a tree please forget these spreadsheets.
