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what am I doing here anyway...
@ckeen wasting time online!
@kensanata Ah that phrase got me thinking a lot lately. Actually time is abundant, all around us, ready to take. 'Wasting' time would mean I have to make good use of a scarce resource.
Live my life optimally optimised until I die.
I think that's a pretty modern notion of life. When did this start?
@ckeen with wage labor
@kensanata We have been trained on scarcity so much, even slacking off feels bad...
@kensanata I really recommend David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs to you, it resonates a lot with me and gave some new angles and articulation s for this rather vague feeling I have about this
@ckeen Indeed! Whenever I talk with people about working only 60% I see echoes of that. They don’t know what to do. They feel like they’re mooching off of society. Like they’re not giving their all for their children. As if they had decided that given that they’re in a rat race, and knowing that they can’t quit, they want to at least do well.