• wowwoweowza@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Can I be the Genx here and just … yeah, we’ve always had to work for survival. Like each and every organism that find a niche. They are all working… even photosynthesis is a kind of activity.

    Good grief.

    All critters have to work. Think about it.

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      4 hours ago

      But plants kind of live in the real world, and I live in violently enforced fantasy bullshit. Literally the majority of the resources, of that work, goes to maintaining inequality and oppression, not to anyone’s survival.

      Take every penny in advertising policing ‘genAI’ and military budgets. Just the most obvious inarguable ‘this couldn’t possibly be for anything else’, and it’s over half of the minerals work hours and CPU cycles,

      So the amount we have to work is at least twice as much as the actual amount to survive, and the benefits are no more than half as much. And all of it in deeply bullshit conditions, usually in ways that are 90% oppression 10% productivity at best.

      And these are kinda conservative estimates.

      So get peter thiel’s dick out of your mouth before you speak, boot licker. You won’t sound nearly as fucking stupid.

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        1 hour ago

        Touchy much?

        I’m not the one complaining about the hours per week I work or my compensation… just saying…

        Honestly— we’re just another organism on the planet.

        Separate yourself from the system — a hatchet in the wild… and you’ll find you’ll still have to work. The native Americans had to hunt and build domeciles and make clothes… maybe farm… fish… it’s work all the way down to the first turtle.

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      6 hours ago

      Maybe… Just maybe… We’ve evolved past being critters and could use our superior brain power to avoid having to work like the animals…

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        2 hours ago

        Sorry — we’re still animals.

        We are literally the morons destroying the planet and you somehow see yourself as superior to animals that do not destroy the earth? They don’t use plastic or have subscriptions that make fascists rich.

        Listen— I want to be friends with everyone at Lemmy because we all share contempt for the prevailing hegemony… so I’ll tone it down …

        Humans can’t use their superior brainpower to boycott Facebook successfully.