It's weird how we (in developed countries) live in a world where true scarcity doesn't exist and we have ready access to unimaginable luxuries, yet functioning in society is demeaning and emotionally and spiritually brutalising to a degree that can't really be put into words
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@scathach I think some guy wrote about this 
@nyx He did and he had some excellent points but those are far outweighed by the fact that every time anyone ever tried to put his ideas into practice it almost invariably resulted in something worse than before; plus dialectical materialism is total horseshit
I'm quite sympathetic to a lot of leftist ideas but Marx and communism are just not good
I'm quite sympathetic to a lot of leftist ideas but Marx and communism are just not good
@scathach one of the issues is that property taxes make it really hard to be financially secure, since you never really "own" something if you have to keep paying for it. same thing with cars, where you're forced to buy insurance.
and the whole 9-5 thing is annoying because it means the vast majority of employment opportunities will prevent you from having much of a life outside your job; even if you have a wife and kids, or want to put a nontrivial amount of effort into a hobby.
the overall effect is that unless you're absurdly wealthy, you have to spend so much of your time working - not because you truly need to, but because the system makes anything else more difficult than it could be.
and the whole 9-5 thing is annoying because it means the vast majority of employment opportunities will prevent you from having much of a life outside your job; even if you have a wife and kids, or want to put a nontrivial amount of effort into a hobby.
the overall effect is that unless you're absurdly wealthy, you have to spend so much of your time working - not because you truly need to, but because the system makes anything else more difficult than it could be.
@genmaicha I swear it feels like the entire system is built to drain the soul out of people
@genmaicha Just, death by a million tiny cuts from legalese-riddled paperwork
@genmaicha I swear it feels like the entire system is built to drain the soul out of people
@scathach my gut feel is that the problem isn't one has to work, the problem is that one has almost zero agency. that's what gets to me. do this, do that, need a loicense, that's verboten, even for things which can't EVER be a problem to someone else. just because the state just has to stick it's fingers into it.