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Comment by zazazx

7 hours ago

Keep playing a wicked game whose rules are stacked against you for the shiny trophy. I’ll see you in therapy in a few years.

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tptacek  7 hours ago

I guess another bit of advice is to do whatever you need to do to avoid ending up talking like this.

  • _virtu  6 hours ago

    I mean the grandparent poster isn’t wrong. This whole system is stacked against us.

    It’s difficult to keep moving knowing that we don’t have the ability to opt out of the way our whole society works. This is a very broad discussion that I know has many different facets to it, but the grandparent poster seems to be calling out what a lot of people believe is true.

    • roarcher  5 hours ago

      Is Reddit bleeding into HN now? The anti-work subs often feature these whiny hot takes like "woe is me, I don't get to do whatever I want" followed by a comical self-impressed implication that there's a great academic discourse behind this profound thought. Not used to seeing it here though.

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    • tptacek  6 hours ago

      I think when you start talking like this, you're winding yourself up, which is just not a good way to confront tough decisions.

    • AnimalMuppet  6 hours ago

      > It’s difficult to keep moving knowing that we don’t have the ability to opt out of the way our whole society works.

      Pretty much nobody ever did, in any society, with few exceptions. "Going to America" was one exception, and then "going west". But for most people, for most of civilization, that has never been an option.

      And, in fact, the whole system is stacked against us less than it has been for most of the history of civilization. You aren't a serf. You aren't a slave. You aren't an indentured servant, or bound to a ruler or leader in any way.

      But I think what many people are feeling is the first derivative. There was a time when the system worked better for people (at least for white males) - say the 1950s or 1960s. People can feel the first derivative being negative. They feel the loss of something. I think that's behind the surge of this sentiment.

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