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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not necessarily, as another commenter said they need something "fulfilling" to do with the rest of their lives. After you've been working for 50-60+ years, 5 days a week, 8-16 hours a day, and then you suddenly have every day free you don't know what to do with the time. I've been unemployed a few times for a year at a time and after about 3-4 months it starts to get pretty boring.

My uncle lived to 100, he was completely healthy at 98 and would walk a mile or two a day around town, but broke his hip, the recovery process is practically what killed him because he could no longer be active every day. For like 6-9 months he just sat around, he's muscles and mind atrophied, and the rest of his body started to "fall apart", and he was never the same. He died about a year later.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I have sooooo many fulfilling projects that I could be doing if I didn't have to serve capital for food.

It's a real shame how being used (aka employed) saps people of their individual time, labor, desires, projects, etc.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Stuff costs money and hobbies do get old after a while, but there is a lot of stuff you can do, you just have to be willing to do it.