• darq@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Go ahead and be that way and see how far you get in life.

    Better things are possible. We create our world, there is no reason it has to be as uncaring as it is. And the only way to make a change for the better is to abandon your way of thinking.

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      11 months ago

      The idea that your create your world with unfettered freedom and no restrictions is a false notion. This isn’t a world where you can do whatever you want however you want, and people will throw money at you for being that way. As nice as it would be to live a totally free life where you get paid just to be you - that isn’t the reality of human societies.

      I’m not one to balk at the notion of rocking or shaking up the status quo - god knows I’ve done my fair share of that, just today I had a volatile (and very angry) letter printed in our paper condeming book banning and the idiots who condone it - not that that will change anyone’s mind.

      But I’m saying you also have to be realistic and face the fact that no one is going to pay you to sit on your bum and play video games all day (in all likelihood). The world you want to live in is bounded by the stark facts of economic necessities and social pressures.

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        11 months ago

        The idea that your create your world with unfettered freedom and no restrictions is a false notion.

        Good thing I didn’t say that then.

        But I’m saying you also have to be realistic and face the fact that no one is going to pay you to sit on your bum and play video games all day (in all likelihood).

        Who said anything about that?

        The world you want to live in is bounded by the stark facts of economic necessities and social pressures.

        Except economics is not “facts”, it’s a way of organising that we have the power to change. Specifically referring to economics, the world is the way that it is because some people want it to be this way, it is not a fact of nature.

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            11 months ago

            I really could not care less

            Clearly, because you didn’t even care enough to read what I originally wrote.

            I’ve got better things to care about.

            Go do so then.