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Today: a short yap about computer hardware:
Damn I love the AM4 socket its so upgradable yay, bought a Ryzen 9 5900X for our old desktop soon to be homelab and so excited for it.
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I feel like I shouldn't buy anything or do hobbies when my time and money could be used to help people instead.
You can only do what you can do. The scale of suffering is enormous and it dwarfs any individuals efforts. There are grand scales of machines and institutions set up to create this grinding, human eating, oppression machine.
You can help people, they would appreciate if you do. If you do anything, starting small with the people near you will do a lot. Small acts of kidness count for a lot. You don't have to take on the entire globes struggle in order to be helping.
And never light yourself on fire in order to keep someone else warm. You need to stay alive and healthy too in order to keep doing good things.
but I could give all my money to those who need it (outside of what I need to survive) I could spend all my time volunteering.
That's the proverbial lighting yourself on fire to keep someone else warm. It's not an effective long term strategy because you are valuable as a person in and of herself. Take that feeling that you need to do more and turn it into something actionable or join in somewhere ongoing, but don't feel like you're falling short unless you're giving everything.
This is a side bit, but utilitarianism is a common ethical framework and is probably the default one in the west. If you follow it, yeah the conlusion is inevitably we should donate all our time and our money and even our organs in order to maximize "good" - which is absurd and the point of the absurdity is that our ethics isn't complete by just saying "go and maximize the well being of everyone." Don't go and burn yourself out, go and be a resilient and sustainable force of justice and right the wrong you can right.
don't you ever compare me to a utilitarian again
It's maybe a little grim but all of us here are kinda helping each other out just by staying alive
Doing those things that bring you joy to get through the day and give even just a little bit to look forward to in the future is part of that staying alive.
this all sounds like hogwash to me.
Idk if you weren't here, alive, doing your hobbies, who would have helped me out by teaching me the gospel of Marble Zone 2?
... I apologize if this was not an appropriate time / place to try some levity.
Instead of helping you by playing sonic I could have been helping homeless people or something.
You have to realize that not doing anything for yourself will only cause you to burn out. Reducing consumption is a great thing to do but denying yourself any joy is not a way to live. Everyone absolutely should have a safe space that they can relax feel joy in, including you. Just don't become a complacent and morph into a liberal, alright?
But if you dedicate your entire life for others then your mental health will probably suffer a lot and you will have a breakdown sooner or later. If you really want to help, do it in moderation and make sure that your wellbeing comes first.