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#2>> We become artificial automatons and driven drones.
Yeah, those Buddhist monks who don't try to achieve anything and yet are happiest creatures on Earth are indeed drones.
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#3>> We become artificial automatons and driven drones. Yeah, those Buddhist monks who don't try to achieve anything and yet are happiest creatures on Earth are indeed drones.
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#4>> We become artificial automatons and driven drones. Yeah, those Buddhist monks who don't try to achieve anything and yet are happiest creatures on Earth are indeed drones.
I think you have an inaccurate understanding of what monks do. Also I'm not sure if I'd call monks happy so much as I would content.
The better example here is the guy living off of UBI smoking weed and playing video games all day.
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#5Anecdotal: the richest self made people I know work the hardest, the poorest don't work at all or as little as possible, by choice (state pays). People who inherited wealth are the unhappiest and the people who do well but not enough to be rich (I guess some type of middle class) whine about it all and want to be rich to vacation the rest of their life (but will probably never get there as they never run, just chug along and keep whining).
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#6>> We become artificial automatons and driven drones. Yeah, those Buddhist monks who don't try to achieve anything and yet are happiest creatures on Earth are indeed drones.
I think you have an inaccurate understanding of what monks do. Also I'm not sure if I'd call monks happy so much as I would content. The better example here is the guy living off of UBI smoking weed and playing video games all day.
Buddhist monk fits this article; most people like the GP (unless I read their message wrong) want the happiness (as they saw on youtube; never talked to any of course) but without the cost so they might assume that to become a Buddhist monk type of happy you just 'throw away all modern crap' and meditate and then you achieve it. Only to find out that that does nothing long term although it might alleviate short term stress.
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#7Anecdotal: the richest self made people I know work the hardest, the poorest don't work at all or as little as possible, by choice (state pays). People who inherited wealth are the unhappiest and the people who do well but not enough to be rich (I guess some type of middle class) whine about it all and want to be rich to vacation the rest of their life (but will probably never get there as they never run, just chug a…
Not anecdotal: By nature of the structural relations of our society, the richest people are exploiting the labor of the poorest people, which leaves little reason for the poor people to coopperate.
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#8Anecdotal: the richest self made people I know work the hardest, the poorest don't work at all or as little as possible, by choice (state pays). People who inherited wealth are the unhappiest and the people who do well but not enough to be rich (I guess some type of middle class) whine about it all and want to be rich to vacation the rest of their life (but will probably never get there as they never run, just chug a…
“I know”. This says more about you.
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#9Anecdotal: the richest self made people I know work the hardest, the poorest don't work at all or as little as possible, by choice (state pays). People who inherited wealth are the unhappiest and the people who do well but not enough to be rich (I guess some type of middle class) whine about it all and want to be rich to vacation the rest of their life (but will probably never get there as they never run, just chug a…
“I know”. This says more about you.
Sure, hence the anecdotal.
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#10> It is all around us.
> People no longer willing to work.
What? What planet is this? What I have seen is people rearranging their lives by changing their careers, which is hard. Being aware of the gaps in your life and then changing to fill them is extremely hard. Giving up money and prestige to spend time with kids who are not always grateful, at least at first, can be extremely difficult. The big trend I am seeing is people starting their own businesses instead of letting themselves be satisfied with being a corporate tool.
Going a step further, whatever metric this person is using that leads to such grand trivialization is likely to make them insufferable and impossible to reach. Have some feedback about what might make their latest offering more desirable? Sorry, too busy working hard to listen to your weakness based complaints.
Especially in the tech world my experience is that what really wins is being lazy and then extending that to allow others to be lazy. Always be alert for sharp edges can and should be sanded down to leave room for other stuff whether that is beach time, family time, or development time for the next big thing.