Comment by zwnow
10 hours ago
Social media established a hustle culture in young men, cost of living forces people to work without taking vacation. The modern trend is 72 hour weeks in Silicon Valley corporations. Houses are speculation objects rather than affordable homes for families. In this society you have to teach children early on about how money works and how to keep jobs or you'll find them in a vicious cycle of trying to afford life. Giving up simply is not an option for many people anymore.
> In this society you have to teach children early on about how money works
In this society? When and where was it ever different?
First lesson of life should be "you work to buy your bread" followed by "nobody will ever give you something for free".
First lesson of life should be to show empathy towards other living beings.
If the first lesson in life is "you work to buy your bread" and "nobody will ever give you something for free" you'll end up in a world filled with egoistical maniacs. Which unfortunately is where we are at the moment.
Your second lesson is not even true considering I'd have unconditional love for my children/wife. Altruistic love in the form of give for the sake of giving, not give for the sake of receiving.
People forget that we are strong together. Working together is actually the only way humanity got where its at until some maniacs invented slavery.
In a world full of (as noted) egotistical maniacs, is not what you are preaching surefire suicide?
Notably, neurotypicals generally fundamentally know this and even priests will throw abusive assholes out of church while still preaching peace, love and tolerance - without blinking at the apparent hypocrisy.
Or, as the case may be sometimes, initiating religious wars.
It seems like neurodivergents are the ones who get hung up on the literalness.
All life requires a degree of self defense/an immune system, or it dies.
And one could argue that the big reason we don’t have slavery anymore (by and large) is because of mechanization.
There were plenty of preachers in the US South (and plenty of religious figures everywhere in history) that preached the righteousness of slavery. While also preaching peace and love. And they put up quite a fight!
It was not an easy thing winning the Civil war, and plenty of wars were won on the back of slaves, at least in antiquity.
The Spartans weren’t feared because of their egalitarian and humanistic ethos, that’s for sure.
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