• endless_nameless@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Don’t mistake this as me saying this work-til-you-die shit is okay, cause it’s not. But freedom is as much a mindset as it is a material circumstance. There are people who have everything but freedom and there are people who have nothing but freedom.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    “Free”

    Both my parents retired. Are they living it up? Are they checking things off their bucket lists? Nope. They’re having emergency surgeries, planned surgeries, going to the doctor all the time, taking a regiment of pills or they die, and hanging around the house because they’re old and their mobillity isn’t great.

    A just reward after a lifetime of work.

    It’s a scam, friends. You’re going to work until you’re dead or until it doesn’t really matter anymore whether you’re dead or not.

  • salty_chief@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Study never stops though. So technically study would be 60yrs. Shit, I studied more in the US Coast Guard than in school!

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    12 hours ago

    This framework fails to consider all the time between those main activities, which we spend shitposting.

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    11 hours ago

    Free? That’s when your kids send your grandkids for you to take care of. Ungrateful bastards…

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    11 hours ago

    The Beatles had the meaning of life in a song back in the day- Life Goes On

    That’s it, it just goes on

    If you’re lucky you have a kid

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    12 hours ago

    The only thing missing from this is the quest for a cruelty free pee, that seems to take up most of our lives these days.