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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go ahead and be that way and see how far you get in life. If this was a fantasy world made of unicorn farts and marshmallow fluff, being soft would make perfect sense. But it isn't, and the real world is full of demands, unfairness, and expectations. You don't have to meet any of them, but don't complain about your life in a cardboard box under the overpass - because that's on you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go ahead and be that way and see how far you get in life.

Better things are possible. We create our world, there is no reason it has to be as uncaring as it is. And the only way to make a change for the better is to abandon your way of thinking.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The idea that your create your world with unfettered freedom and no restrictions is a false notion. This isn't a world where you can do whatever you want however you want, and people will throw money at you for being that way. As nice as it would be to live a totally free life where you get paid just to be you - that isn't the reality of human societies.

I'm not one to balk at the notion of rocking or shaking up the status quo - god knows I've done my fair share of that, just today I had a volatile (and very angry) letter printed in our paper condeming book banning and the idiots who condone it - not that that will change anyone's mind.

But I'm saying you also have to be realistic and face the fact that no one is going to pay you to sit on your bum and play video games all day (in all likelihood). The world you want to live in is bounded by the stark facts of economic necessities and social pressures.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The idea that your create your world with unfettered freedom and no restrictions is a false notion.

Good thing I didn't say that then.

But I'm saying you also have to be realistic and face the fact that no one is going to pay you to sit on your bum and play video games all day (in all likelihood).

Who said anything about that?

The world you want to live in is bounded by the stark facts of economic necessities and social pressures.

Except economics is not "facts", it's a way of organising that we have the power to change. Specifically referring to economics, the world is the way that it is because some people want it to be this way, it is not a fact of nature.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really could not care less, you think whatever you want to. I've got better things to care about.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really could not care less

Clearly, because you didn't even care enough to read what I originally wrote.

I've got better things to care about.

Go do so then.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds good, I certainly enjoy getting under your skin, it keeps my needles sharp.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I certainly enjoy getting under your skin

So you clearly don't have better things to care about.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I certainly enjoy getting under your skin, it keeps my needles sharp.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is my hobby. Keepin' my needles sharp and ready.