Cuz they could just wake up and be like "ah damn ain't it nice that everything here is built and designed for us, let's enjoy not having any material concerns". But instead they're all "OMG they're trying to get rid of white ppl" and "no soy is making everyone femme". ron-soy

Not that they deserve my concern, but damn they're really ruining their experience. Also no one will date their goolish ass and their kids hate them.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 days ago

    this is more of a charitable/philosophical understanding, but beyond the basics, no additional wealth/prosperity brings lasting happiness. psychologically, happiness is fleeting. we always return to a baseline.

    life is defined by a pervasive unsatisfactoriness that can only be confronted by cultivating an inner peace, loving affection for others, integrity, purpose in community, etc etc. being leisurely and opulent doesn't grant these treasures of personal development. generally it does the opposite!

    every born mega rich 1% person I've met has seemed to me, plagued with fear. fear that they will lose their wealth and with it, whatever shred of joy in their lives they have. for them, joy is having the finest things and whatever material whim they desire. even though regular people know having really nice things doesn't grant unending happiness, these people assume it must and cling to it, existentially.

    this, to me, is the psychology of why capitalism is fucked. the people who "win" it are so afraid of losing, it makes them too fearful to share and instead accelerates their grasping. very Realm of the Hungry Ghosts type shit, eat eat eat and never be filled.

    • frauddogg [null/void, undecided]
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      3 days ago

      very Realm of the Hungry Ghosts type shit, eat eat eat and never be filled.

      It's strange mirrors like these that make me wonder if I'm not living in some earthbound hell tbh

    • Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      Arthur Schopenhauer said that even satisfactions are just staging posts in a cycle of suffering.

      I'm not a practising Buddhist but I think their doctrine of compassion and especially non-judgement is the best way of at least taking the edge off the most painful parts of being a human!

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      3 days ago

      The desire after hoarding is in its very nature unsatiable. In its qualitative aspect, or formally considered, money has no bounds to its efficacy, i.e., it is the universal representative of material wealth, because it is directly convertible into any other commodity. But, at the same time, every actual sum of money is limited in amount, and, therefore, as a means of purchasing, has only a limited efficacy. This antagonism between the quantitative limits of money and its qualitative boundlessness, continually acts as a spur to the hoarder in his Sisyphus-like labour of accumulating. It is with him as it is with a conqueror who sees in every new country annexed, only a new boundary.

      • marx

      this, to me, is the psychology of why capitalism is fucked. the people who "win" it are so afraid of losing, it makes them too fearful to share and instead accelerates their grasping. very Realm of the Hungry Ghosts type shit, eat eat eat and never be filled.

      Read Bell Hooks' A Will To Change a while back and had a similar revelation about the patriarchal dominance hierarchy. Everybody has vulnerabilities, and to "win" requires treating everyone around you as an enemy and dealing with the unending threat that one of your own weaknesses will be exposed.