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Modern work is weird. All your energy goes into it. But at the end of the day there's no satisfaction. Just emptiness and exhaustion. So you invest your remaining time in entertainments, drugs and shopping. Frantically groping for a scrap of joy. My friends in carpentry call it "feeding the monkey". The monkey must be fed, one way or another.
To be called ”Long History” i think it should to extend beyond the current generation.
Socrates 400BC
As a long-time software engineer and related positions. When covid started it felt as if the world said "We worked enough we need a collective time off"
I did not understand how much my 45min x 2 commute was draining my stamina before I stopped commuting, e.g.
To be called ”Long History” i think it should to extend beyond the current generation.
https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/28169/what-is-th...
It's always nobody wants to work anymore at the wages you are presently offering. It's like concluding we've run out of oil because the price of gasoline went up.
Yes, nobody wants to work at poor wages. And these employers usually offer poor wages, but they'll often complain about unqualified people too.
Sometimes it's rephrased from "Nobody wants to work" to "Nobody wants to work... for you"
Modern work is weird. All your energy goes into it. But at the end of the day there's no satisfaction. Just emptiness and exhaustion. So you invest your remaining time in entertainments, drugs and shopping. Frantically groping for a scrap of joy. My friends in carpentry call it "feeding the monkey". The monkey must be fed, one way or another.
To be called ”Long History” i think it should to extend beyond the current generation.
Similarly … The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. 400BC
Doesn't seem like it :
> It was crafted by a student, Kenneth John Freeman, for his Cambridge dissertation published in 1907. Freeman did not claim that the passage under analysis was a direct quotation of anyone; instead, he was presenting his own summary of the complaints directed against young people in ancient times.
Modern work is weird. All your energy goes into it. But at the end of the day there's no satisfaction. Just emptiness and exhaustion. So you invest your remaining time in entertainments, drugs and shopping. Frantically groping for a scrap of joy. My friends in carpentry call it "feeding the monkey". The monkey must be fed, one way or another.