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[–] [email protected] 63 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The best part is you can quit any time you want.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

I quit every single weekday!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

Teied that quite a few times, always end up fucking my life even more ! Truly an addict here. It's like I need it ro survive.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes...but there is such a thing as a work addict. My father is in his eighties, hasn't had to work in decades, but still works like more than forty hours a week. I have no doubt that if he stopped, he'd be dead within the year.

My wife is also a workaholic but she's the equivalent to the alcoholic that wants to stop drinking but cannot. She just can't help herself to the point that she'll turn her own leisure time into a job.

I used to be the same but heart surgery and cancer cured me of that bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Sorry to hear about your health problems, but happy you were able to switch off as a result.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was with the post until the end. Both workaholism and the coercion of capitalism are real, they shouldn’t be conflated.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No. No. They're right. When even Forbes reports that nearly 30% of people can't afford their normal expenses and a further 40% living paycheck to paycheck, it's a systemic issue. Payroll.org's numbers from 2023 put the paycheck to paycheck at 78%.

Sure some of those are poor spending habits but, to brush it off as that is wishful thinking. Could blame it on neoliberalism but, people have been coerced into making the wealthy even more money in order to survive since long before that. Not having a home is illegal. Every bit of land on the plant is considered owned, whether occupied or not, so, there is no option to opt-out and refuse to participate while alive and free.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So posting on fediverse is going to change any of that how?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Not every action needs to serve a greater purpose or be related to financial gain.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What is the point of your question? It's based on a completely useless, asinine observation. I guess what I'm asking is, are you trying to start shit or are you profoundly dim?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Im just pissed off at all this high minded gobshite about how capitalism is the source of all evil and immediately jumping into this fantasy of a perfect anrchism without any conceptualization of how to get from A to B. Not to mention that my "tankie" comment was sarcastic satire of lemmy comment sections whenever captialism is mentioned.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ignorant name caller. Grow up…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Someone who thinks we need a militaristic (i.e. tanks) installation of a communist regime.

Edit: clarity

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Although people on Lemmy, especially .world, seem to be increasingly using it like American conservatives use "woke", to describe anyone they don't like. On the bright side, also like the usage of woke, it's typically a sign the person using it is an idiot and doesn't have anything worth listening to.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It is an unfortunate thing, because tankies are actually a problem. And I do mean the real term, as in the folks who identify with dictatorships that are so-called communist.

The reason it's a problem is that the folks who are left-leaning but uneducated sometimes get swept up in pro-authoritarian rhetoric that happens to oppose the west. I'm anticapitalist, leftist, etc. I see tankies and fascists having a lot in common. That seems dangerous in the sense that fascism is a real threat. Also, then, our ranks are being thinned out and co-opted by specific bad-faith actors. At the same time, when people buy into tankie (pro-Russia, pro-China, pro-North Korea) propaganda, this more or less consolidates some of the power that opposes actual leftists (as in, people who support human rights, equitable societies, environmental protection, etc).

Not really any argument against what you're saying. Just kind of adding that the term tankie is actually useful to describe a specific viewpoint, but obviously not in the way that the previous commenter used it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I agree completely, thanks for adding some important context.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That seems to be the function I see it used the most.

And yes, I do find it's a good indicator that they aren't very bright, or at least don't want to engage in constructive conversations.

Thanks all for letting me be the 'lucky' 10,000

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah. That was obviously how it was used against me. I’m interested in good faith digression but your right, it’s a sign that it won’t be and your time would be wasted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Definitely saved this one for my addict friends.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I hate eating and love grinding. God I grindso fucking hard they call me Tony hawk at work cause of all the the grinding I do. Living in a nice home and doing things you like is gay and lame. The woke loser libs want you to think we should have free time for things that make us happy so we can enjoy life. Pfft, ya know what I say? GRIND! FAMILY? NO TIME OR MONEY for that, GRIND! HOLIDAY? THATS GAY! GRIND HARDERRRRR! NIGHT WITH FRIENDS??? NAH NERD GRIIIIIIIINNNNNDDDD

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Making the rich richer at my own expense makes me so goddamn HAAAAAAAARD!!!!1!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Tell me about it buster. I'm fucking diamonds over here DIAMONDS 💎

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Just took five weeks off work on paid sick leave. Best thing I ever did for myself.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Alternatively they be like "You got to be hardcore and be willing to put in 18-hour days just like I do!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Are you really that dedicated if you're working less than 28 hours a day?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Scary thing is that we literally can’t go more than 2 mins without air

We’re all so addicted

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Huh, i'm a full on addict it seems.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Listen. All you need too do is have a near death inhabitating health emergency and you can retire in your forties and then maybe live another twentry-forty years on a fixed income.

Shits simple dog.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I worked so hard for so long that I'm like this and it's awful.

When I get time off, I don't know what to do with myself. Right now I have a full time night/ weekend job and I'm attending university with 5 courses. This summer I'm considering picking up another job because I won't know what to do with myself.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

One psychologist one told me that addiction is when you do it 8 hours a day

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

*Clocks out one minute early.*

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

that sounds exactly like legitimate work addiction

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Fell off the wagon again, fml

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Uh, yeah... Having been both homeless and starving, I'm going to keep working to avoid those fates from occurring again. You do you though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's a stupid meme, don't take it seriously...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

It is indeed a stupid meme

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Are these work addicts or realists though?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

That's not a work addict. That's a wage slave.