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Post by mooreds »

sthreet wrote: post #159
JohnBooty wrote: post #119

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Yes! Volunteering is great. You meet really good people doing it. Because people who volunteer tend to be people with big hearts, of course.

Having done a small amount of required volunteering for school I would disagree. Of course, I live in the middle of nowhere, and it was mostly my classmates volunteering with me who are also required to volunteer for so many hours.

I think the volunteering experience is, like so many other things, dependent on who else is participating as well as what you are doing. I hope you explore/are able to explore other opportunities in the future that resonate more profoundly with you.

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Post by toothbrush »

3pt14159 wrote: post #178
nahname wrote: post #125

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I'm spending over $100 a week per person right now on groceries. Really goes to show how expensive food is in Canada.

Where do you live? In TO I spend about $70/week and I eat pretty healthy. Salmon, avocados, lentils, eggs, salad, yogurt, apples, milk, chicken, oatmeal, sweet potatoes, etc. Edit: I also only buy humane meat, and organic eggs.

Humane meat, that's the one where they don't kill the animals, right? :p

Re: The Shut-In Economy

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Post by ptaipale »

onion2k wrote: post #162
cubano wrote: post #56

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> We are materially richer, but what about the social connections? Well...Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn of course.

Those are database records. Social connections are actual interactions with other people.

Well, online services are also actual interactions with other people, much of the time.

They are interactions based on telecommunications, computing, display and sound reproducing technologies, etc, and they are one way to have contact with other people. "Real-world" interactions are also involve mediums: sound waves traveling in air, eyesight dependent on presence of visible light frequencies. Physical phenomenons like the transport of bits is, deep down.

Yes, there are some aspects in physical presence which do not apply to on-line social connections. Most importantly, touch.

But (depending on culture), we don't often touch people who are in the same room, either. On-line interactions have also some aspects that improve our workings with other people, over physical presence -- for instance, from on-line you can go off-line and exchange ideas and information, while if you're in a room and speak, the person who comes in 5 minutes later will not hear it.

Re: The Shut-In Economy

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Re: The Shut-In Economy

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Post by JohnBooty »

nahname wrote: post #125
JohnBooty wrote: post #115

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That's the one! $60/week for three meals for two. More expensive than groceries but cheaper than dining out! The meals take about 20-30 minutes to prepare and cook. It's been working for us.

I'm spending over $100 a week per person right now on groceries. Really goes to show how expensive food is in Canada.

Blue Apron would be $210 per week per person ($10 per meal) if one was going to use it to provide three meals a day! Canada is still cheaper than that. I think. Maybe? Hopefully? :)

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Re: The Shut-In Economy

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Post by __john »

derwiki wrote: post #179
zkhalique wrote: post #42

Think about all this specialization. This is what a "good economy" looks like. Parents who work long hours so they can afford to rent some great apartment and buy stuff for their family. They outsource a lot of the childcare to professional nannies or whoever. They outsource a lot of the elder care to nursing homes etc. People are getting married later in life so they can focus on their career. Individualism, kids mo…

I have a birthday in ~24 hours. I plan to deactivate Facebook in ~12 hours and leave it off for a day or two.

I'm pretty sure you can change the privacy setting associated with the day/month and leave the year public.

Re: The Shut-In Economy

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Post by Morgawr »

Tomte wrote: post #187
gfosco wrote: post #102

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I wish more people knew this. The entire "chemical imbalance" shtick is a myth. If you are ever told this, your response should be, "What chemical? What level am I at? What level should I be at?".. But, alas, there is no blood test, or any other kind of test, which can yet determine this. That's not science.

A myth? Put yourself in my shoes: Do I believe some Internet commenter without further evidence, or do I believe Robert Sapolsky?

I don't know who Robert Sapolsky is, I admit my ignorance, but you shouldn't believe people just because they are people. You should believe peer reviewed studies instead, regardless of who writes them.

Just saying. Claiming that Robert Sapolsky himself (whoever that is) is more correct than the post you are replying to, without providing citations to (peer reviewed and accepted) studies is nonsensical.

Re: The Shut-In Economy

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Post by JohnBooty »

onion2k wrote: post #214
JohnBooty wrote: post #91

I don't feel like ordering things online makes me a shut-in at all - just the opposite. I work a lot, and by spending less time on the drudgery of brick-and-mortar shopping, I have more time to spend on the things that matter to me. Including socializing. Yeah, maybe I leave the house less, but are those trips to the store really "quality time?" Making a run to Wal-Mart or the supermarket to buy toilet paper is time…

If you use the extra time to do those quality things like playing with your dog or reading then you're benefiting from the on-demand economy. You've figured out how to make it work for you. That's great. But... Lots of other people don't use that time well. They 'save' lots of time by having things brought to them, and spend that time watching TV or browsing the net despite not really enjoying those things. They're e…

I don't mean this snarkily: I think you have a higher opinion of retail shopping than me. Some people certainly enjoy it. Even I enjoy it sometimes. But:

  > They're exchanging money for time to do passive activities 
  > they don't like and don't make them feel good. That is not 
  > a benefit.
I would describe shopping as "exchanging time and money to do something I don't like and doesn't make me feel good" so... again, it's not an upgrade to me. But let's focus on a part of what you said:

  > passive activities they don't like and don't make them feel good.
This is a real problem. And I don't mean to gloss over it. I have gone through stretches like this. It more or less fits the definition of anhedonia which is one potential criteria for a diagnosis of depression.

But here's the key question: what's the causal relationship here? It's very easy for me to believe that a depressed person would want to avoid shopping trips; it's much less clear to me that avoiding shopping trips could possibly cause depression.

Sounds like the problem is people being depressed, not people avoiding shopping trips.

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