I’ll take 7 hour workdays in summer instead.

More daylight in summer rocks. It would be equally rocking in Winter. The clocks shoud stay forward.

Neither does passivism though. If everyone around you is losing your mind, you either give up your freedom and very possibly your life, or you fight.

The only reason no other great power has needed a fully prepared military is because of US leadership. That can’t be trusted now, so here we are.

I’m assuming it’s people thinking it’ll go up again so buy it while it’s cheap. Momentum has to continue against the company so those who bought in now are punished.

But you’re right, the stock market is gambling that produces nothing for the world. Trickle down transaction fees at best, tempting retirees to waste their retirement money at worse.

Hi, my name is ynthrepic and I’m a workaholic.

I have one of those jobs where holidays just mean double the work when you get back. None of the work goes anywhere, and there’s nobody else who can pick up the slack.

I actually love what I do, but…

I work in the public sector, and do heaps of unpaid overtime, to make life better for people who don’t understand the only reason we don’t do a better job is because the government keeps cutting our budgets, claiming it’s because we don’t do a better job with the money we were given the previous year.

We also do regular restructures which reduce morale and stoke fear, but the only people who lose their jobs are low level workers, or they just remove vacancies and claim savings on those, while moving middle managers sideways and not actually improving efficiency.

My job gets harder, I end up making more mistakes or have to cut corners to make shit happen. I complain I get in trouble. I have a kid.

I’m so fucking glad though I don’t live or work in the US. Y’all are so fucking fucked.

I don’t think even OP or OC meant that nobody would work. But “work” as we imagine it now need not exist. Most specialist roles are fulfilling enough that people do them enthusiastically and with passion. It would be first and foremost a worker lead economy, rather than people being desperate for jobs. Companies need to buy talent in a more competitive market instead, in all industries not just the specialisations.

I imagine there’s still a wealth hierarchy but it’s a lot less dispirate and follows meritocratic lines, including the merit of being willing to get your hands dirty doing dirty or dangerous work not currently possible to automate. And obviously being very talented at sport, music, art, comedy, etc such that people want to spend any excess wealth they have on supporting them or buying access to their content (like now).

It’s not so different from now, it’s just the continued progressive advancement of what we see in many European nations already.

The point is that technology means a fraction of the population can feed and house the rest, and that fraction doesn’t need to live like royalty, and the rest don’t need to live in servitude for that exchange to happen.

Don’t you want others to enjoy your success with you? Apply that principle to all of humanity the world over, and you have what could be, if we just stopped waring over hoards.

Nothing. I’m referring to be your standard ceramic one-seater. Girls need pee toilets too you see, or at least I’m yet to know of a women’s urinal which women actually want to use.

Good idea, but I don’t know how you stop people pooping in the pee toilets.

Terrorism is supposed to be the dogmatic or ideologically motivated killing of civilians, often by those who are willing to die in the process. It’s terror inducing because it could seemingly happen anywhere at any time to any one, and it’s a lot easier to cause harm to others when you’re suicidal and not trying to get away with it.

Of course, that’s not how it’s routinely used, or perhaps was ever really used by anyone except academics.

Centaur World is incredible. Best kids show I’ve seen as an adult. They need your viewership to make more crazy stuff.

People aren’t honest enough with each other and their own needs. Meanwhile we build other dependencies in long term relationships that have nothing to do with physical attraction, but are in most cases more important for all kinds of reasons.

Monogamy is the basis of a lot of unnecessary suffering because it’s resisting a very real need we continue to have even when our relationships become romantically stagnant. If we could all just be honest about it with our SOs without fear, and work together as we do anyway to maintain other commitments to each other, we could have a culture where there’s a lot more freedom to seek more intimacy and love in a way that isn’t dishonest, that isn’t “cheating”.