“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.”

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That’s how it was before the Industrial Revolution.

Production used to be the end game, not your lords making sure you clock in properly and stetting your piss breaks at certain times.

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Before the Industrial Revolution we were too busy working in the fields trying not to starve to death to think about being bored or being productive

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Psst don’t pass the Pre and Post Industrial schedule information to the slaves! Reptilian anti-whistleblowing unit stop this person plzzzz!

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Yeah and in that free time you had all the time in world to think about not starving to death, it’s not like you had too many things to do other than work in your farm

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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.

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You’d rediscover the feeling of doing things for fun

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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.

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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’.

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If you have no reason to interact with the world outside of work… that’s sad. I hope that changes for you.

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Generally people don’t want to do any of that lol

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What is this expectation that I either need or want to talk to the people that live within a particular proximity to me? No thanks.

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humans evolved tribes and it is detrimental to most people’s mental health to not feel included in a community, and sadly most people’s 9-5 doesn’t fill that instinctive void. I think that’s what the OP was getting at

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Almost certainly you feel this way because you have to interact with people you didn’t chose to interact with on terms that aren’t your own. In the nice version of reality you get to chose your community, one that fits you and one that you fit in

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Hey at least reality has trains.

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I like trains.

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