“Imagine if we worked less. Imagine if we walked around our communities, talked to our neighbors, spent time in nature, played. Imagine if we could read, write, fall in love, without that nagging feeling of ‘needing to do something’; imagine if your life was your own.”
My neighbour is an Australian Trump Enthusiast. Do I have to talk to them?
Nah, I’ll be your honorary neighbour. I’m about as opposite to that as possible. Though still Australian.
Imagine if society gave intrinsic value to life and didn’t judge people solely on how useful they are to ourselves.
“Oh you’re an unemployed homeless person? Guess your life isn’t worth much then because you’re not working in a way that I can benefit from. You don’t deserve food, or shelter, or decency.”
Imagine if I didn’t need to work to afford a comfortable life, I’d be a shut in and probably never go out for months at a time.
I feel I’d waste all my time in fun things like reading, gaming, browsing the Internet, maybe travel a bit if the income allowed it, and end up feeling empty after a year.
Probably would adopt a hobby, and devote so much to it it would be like work. I’m not great at self control, maybe I would start by taking self control classes, ha ha.
I feel like I’d waste all my time
But this is the beautiful thing about the world this person is imagining: there is no such thing as wasting time once the compulsion to work to earn is removed. Spending your whole life doing fun things like reading, gaming, learning, travelling etc. sounds like a life very well spent to me. Finding hobby after hobby to throw yourself into also sounds like a fantastic way to spend your time here on earth.
There’s a reason why we invented the concept of ‘retirement’.
Trains are awesome trains are beautiful trains trains trains❤️🚂🚋❤️❤️🚆❤️🚊. I get a throbbing erection just by seeing a tram. Imagine riding a metro oh god my horny ass would instantly cum the moment I step into the station. When I go home I play a Adam Something video about why c🤢rs (🤢🤮) suck ass and TRAAINS (❤️🚂❤️❤️🚂) are AWESOME and I masturbate to it for hours edging harder every time I see numbers of passengers trains can handle. How can a human being can know that trains are 989769379785% more efficient than c*rs and not instantly cum
Imagine being a train (❤️🚂🚋❤️❤️🚆🚇🚈🚊❤️) conductor 🥺😳🥺🥺. Sound of the train as you push the throttle handle filling your ears like the sound of a whore begging for you to go faster 😩💦💦. Pushing the throttle gently as you whisper dirty things to its microphone ❤️❤️❤️❤️ TRAINS TRAINS ARE AWESOME WTF TRAINS ARE SO SEXY LIKE TRAINS TRAINS TRAINS
I’m lucky enough to do that currently. By having cut out consumerism completely, producing a lot of my own food, not wanting to go travel much and enjoying my surroundings instead. I guess it’s not for everyone but works for me. I feed three humans and a few animals with an online job and work only two days a week, when I want. I still wish I didn’t have to do that, as most of what I do doesn’t add to a better world for anyone, but really useful work doesn’t pay as well. My neighbors are a bit rough around the edges but they are very friendly. I choose to not mention politics, just live practical solidarity with them - they’ve given me plenty of food when we moved in, and we’ve helped them out whenever needed. I wish we could build more of that, but most people are too shy or too arrogant, or both. I know I’m a bit of both sometimes.
If it’s not too personal can I ask what your job is that lets you work online only 2 days a week / how much it pays?
I work as a freelance translator. The pay is between 0.5 and 0.20EUR per word depending on language. If ChatGPT steals my job I’ll have to do real work again. (Translation can be real and valuable work but within the confines of capitalism most of what I translate is bullshit that never needed typing out.)
as most of what I do doesn’t add to a better world for anyone
that was the whole premise behind David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs (2018) – when something like 40% of workers consider their own jobs to be useless, pointless, meaningless, unnecessary …
