People used to have more free time. But today we have graphics cards.
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Looks like glacier national Park
The purpose of life is to sit in a cubicle and work to destroy this for the sake of shareholder profits. It's a very efficient system
Sacrifice more time on this planet to the global suicide machine, so you can buy toys
Ooo! I like toys
yes, instead of scrounging for berries when you're 75 and dying of an infected wound from when you fell over on that mountain
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This beautiful landscape is missing a Walmart with a 600 car parking lot.
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Yes. So your boss can enjoy the view.
You on the other hand can get fucked asshole.
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That's pretty much the synopsis of the Yellowstone tv show.
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's life in the face of work that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. I was crazy and could be not working. All i had to do was ask; and as soon as i did, i would no longer be crazy and would have to work more. I would be crazy to work more and sane if i didn't, but if i was sane i had to work. If i work i was crazy and didn't have to; but if i didn't want to i was sane and had to.
I'm very anti-work, but one night in that environment with no shelter and food and I'd be dreaming of an office space. That being said, there is definitely a better world somewhere between working 50-80hours a week and sleeping outside with no shelter or food.
You're comparing what even our ancestors before sapiens had against the modern world. How about Babylon? Or the native Americans that so many "civilized" Americans ran off into the woods to join. Survival of the fittest was absolutely a thing sure, but at the same time, look at people's lives now, look at healthy people's lives in Brazil's favella, Gaza, Sudan, war zone or not. I live in the wonderful capital of Scotland yet there are people on the edges who have lives worse than a 3000bc person.
Yeah that's kinda my point.
I don't think the post is implying a desire to live in nature, but rather expressing the inability to ever visit because of work
Yeah that's what I gathered as well.
Why wouldn't you have shelter or food? Emergency shelter takes an hour to build if you've never done that before and as long as you can tie a knot and find both woods and stone you can have a reasonably durable shelter in a week.
Food is even easier as long as you did literally any outdoors skills as a kid. While the picture suggests a landscape a bit north and a bit alpine, fish, berries, root vegetables and/or tree nuts will be available to you all year.
Take a survival and foraging course. A couple weekends of education will save your life when capitalism inevitably collapses.
I have taken a foraging course! My wife and I actually forage a small amount. But I've never taken a survival course. I'll just freeze to death and I'm ok with that.
You should, at least one working with primitive shelters. Once you understand how easy it is and the relatively low maintenance requirements you'll start getting into Bushcraft, and from there you'll want land just to make little log-based moss covered shelters that can last for decades.
I'd love to do that someday. Maybe when my daughter is old enough to learn as well.
Don't forget your copious amounts of insect repellent.
Just find any thing that smells like mint or citrus and you'll be fine.
I live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and spend a lot of time in the summer camping in and around our national parks (Yellowstone, Grand Teton, etc.). Often, the only thing that will do the trick is taking a bath in deet.
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9-5? More like 8-5 at a minimum wherever I've been at.
9-5 is a dream.
Doing the bare minimum of responsibilities/hygiene my weekdays are 7am-630pm so once I'm settled I get maybe 2-3 hours to eat and do something fun. Assuming there isn't anything I need to do around the house.
Also those leisure hours are "fun" while I mentally prepare for the next day's beatings.
Saturday is a burner day to recover, Sunday is all chores and errands to get ready for the next 5 days.
It sure is grim when I type all that out.
Sounds horrible. My day is wake up at 7, have breakfast, work from 8.20 or so, stop working at 15.30 or so (depends on my energy and what I decide to do).
I sleep at 22.30 so there are lots of hours to do what I want.
This is a very typical life for IT workers where I live (western Europe, not USA).
It's not common in the US but there are decent jobs, they are just very competitive to get and people rarely leave them aside from retirement so turnover is very slow compared to shitty places with high staff turnover. It took me several years working experience, a degree, and a bit of luck to land one. Currently working IT in the US 10-5 with on call rotation a couple times a year, good salary in low-ish cost of living area, pension, 401k, a little over a month off a year PTO plus holidays that increases with seniority, mostly reasonable people to work with and for, etc.
The secret sauce is around 10% of the workforce is union and strikes are fairly regular to protect workers rights that affect both union and non union workers.
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Don't forget getting ready for work and commuting.
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Until 65? Good luck with that.
Yup.
Mom just retired at 70. On her feet working for society for 50 years. Now she hobbles around home with the help of a walker. She'll spend the last 5-10 years of her life hanging out at home, with her only trips being to the doctor's office.
Because this is all a scam to burn the lives of average people so the wealthy can live better than any kings from antiquity ever did.
And our fates will be the same, or worse, if we don't eat these motherfuckers.
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I don't want to live that long. Whenever the time feels right, I want to "retire" with whatever savings I might have, and ride it out until going out on my own terms. When that time feels right, I don't know, but it'll come.
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Yeah, that nice greenery has another 15, 20 at tops.
67 for most now until they increase it again or worse, and dangling the extras if you stay until 70.
Many won't be able to go to places like this at that point, neither physically or financially, and it might even be gone due to climate. I can think of many fixes to this system, but none work because they would go against the way things work, and the machine must keep rolling.
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