One through eight read as the list of sacrifices you make in having children. But the experiences of loving and being loved back seem at least incomplete without that.
The Real Luxuries In Life
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#152Grandchildren.
I have five, and they are amazing. Youngest is 9 months.
We have an old car goiong to the scrapyard in a couple of weeks, and today I sat in the passenger seat of it as my 13 yr old grandaughter drove it around one of our fields getting more and more confident as I encouraged her to stop, put it in reverse, and drive in the opposite direction.
From "this is too difficult" to "I want to be a rally driver" in a few dozen gear changes.
Memories like this are some of the luxuries of life. For her, for me, for her parents, and her siblings watching.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eating is not a weakness. But a strong requirement to eat is a weakness because you don't have the strength to be happy without eating.
I would actually argue that eating is a weakness, that every single human (and animals in general) just happen to share.
At some level you are defined by your weaknesses enough that they can't really be called weaknesses.
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#154Health is obviously first, you have nothing without it. But real joy is wanting to do something, something that is important to you, and being able to. Without desire there is no joy... just a slow countdown.
Kinda depressing cus that thing used to be coding (or mastery of), which seems to be dying/being replaced by gen ai.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not to be glib, but I assume you're not quitting your Western job and moving there. So isn't this romanticizing it?
It’s not that easy to emigrate afaik, even ignoring family and obligations like that.
for real happiness it would be the most important thing if not romanticizing.
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#156Good luck enjoying a slow morning without a job. So much free time, so much joy. Old people give the most ridiculous and unsolicited advice.
That is why it is not a "List of things you can have tomorrow" but a "Luxury list". When you have time, health and no stress - that is the luxury OP is talking about. You don't even need to make more money if you have all those things. If you know your health is insured and you are healthy, you have a decent place where you can feel safe and sleep until late mornings and you do not have to worry about how much food c…
These are rhetorical tricks. Mate I see what you mean, but honestly, the article was just the usual useless old man's talk. I'm glad he is posting on the internet, but it was a useless post.
Jobs will be a luxury soon, if they aren't already. Sure, dead-end jobs aren't a luxury, but they're basically life support - or rather to say existence support.
I live in a country with single-payer healthcare, which some Americans dream so much. If I don't have a job, I'm pretty much screwed - I won't have health insurance. I'm glad I'm healthy, not stupid and not lazy, but single-payer doesn't help that much with life luxuries as you think. To have a place to sleep and not have to worry you need a job - and unless you inherited that place you'll have to work hard for years without the luxuries the old chap talks about anyway. Those are just old man's useless ramblings. I'm sorry, but they are.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eating is not a weakness. But a strong requirement to eat is a weakness because you don't have the strength to be happy without eating.
I would actually argue that eating is a weakness, that every single human (and animals in general) just happen to share.
Definitely, but it would be silly to say not needing to eat is a luxury. Not starving, perhaps.
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#158I can proudly say, that I have got 11.5 of that list.
My #3 is questionable, since work is stressful. It's my bad, I know better. Working on it.
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#159If you have a family and are not already independently wealthy you will be enjoying very few of those. In my experience.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have to regularly travel to rural villages in Asia and the people that live in these places have only the most basic human desires. They barely know what an LLM is let alone interact with them. They're some of the happiest people I've ever met. Of course they'll complain about work or money, and they assume that a Western salary buys me freedom. But they get to live through these luxuries on a daily basis. I'd be l…
Not to be glib, but I assume you're not quitting your Western job and moving there. So isn't this romanticizing it?
Yeah as someone whose family left this, you guys are crazy