The Picard ManeuverAddiction is a scary thing.
GodnrocThe best part is you can quit any time you want.
I’ve quit several times!
I quit every single weekday!
VieuxQuebTeied that quite a few times, always end up fucking my life even more ! Truly an addict here. It’s like I need it ro survive.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆The last time I quit, my boss called me the next day wondering why I didn’t come to work. “I told you yesterday I fucking quit because you never listen to me.”
BubbleMonkeyEven if you can actually quit any time you like because of some negative life circumstance, you best not tell anyone you can. People really don’t like knowing that you don’t need to work/don’t need to work full-time/year-round.
I work limitedly due to disability, exceptionally strict budgeting, and a really solid choice I made to buy a place 12 years ago when I could still afford it, and I just never ever tell anyone IRL (employers, coworkers, or people who aren’t close friends) because they hear “don’t have to work full time year round” and gloss over disability and strict budgeting, which are the whole reason it works. And people get real shitty when they think you are gaming the system to be a freeloader (I’m not at all; I get the same benefits whether I’m working or not regardless my income because it’s VA, and I’m not using any public programs, even though I could)
To be clear, I’m strongly behind a UBI that fully pays for everyone’s basic needs, and universal healthcare. Because I’ve basically lived the life that grants you (I get under 1k/mth and it’s enough to keep me going even tho I’ve never achieved stability, since my medical also costs nothing), and holy shit it is so much better.
Definitely saved this one for my addict friends.
that sounds exactly like legitimate work addiction
Jo MiranYes…but there is such a thing as a work addict. My father is in his eighties, hasn’t had to work in decades, but still works like more than forty hours a week. I have no doubt that if he stopped, he’d be dead within the year.
My wife is also a workaholic but she’s the equivalent to the alcoholic that wants to stop drinking but cannot. She just can’t help herself to the point that she’ll turn her own leisure time into a job.
I used to be the same but heart surgery and cancer cured me of that bullshit.
grrgyleSorry to hear about your health problems, but happy you were able to switch off as a result.
One psychologist one told me that addiction is when you do it 8 hours a day
Sotuanduso*Clocks out one minute early.*
Alternatively they be like “You got to be hardcore and be willing to put in 18-hour days just like I do!”
Are you really that dedicated if you’re working less than 28 hours a day?
Scary thing is that we literally can’t go more than 2 mins without air
We’re all so addicted
I was with the post until the end. Both workaholism and the coercion of capitalism are real, they shouldn’t be conflated.
Ignorant name caller. Grow up…
Wtf is a tankie anyway?
Someone who thinks we need a militaristic (i.e. tanks) to install a communist regime.
SoleInvictusAlthough people on Lemmy, especially .world, seem to be increasingly using it like American conservatives use “woke”, to describe anyone they don’t like. On the bright side, also like the usage of woke, it’s typically a sign the person using it is an idiot and doesn’t have anything worth listening to.
Yeah. That was obviously how it was used against me. I’m interested in good faith digression but your right, it’s a sign that it won’t be and your time would be wasted.
It is an unfortunate thing, because tankies are actually a problem. And I do mean the real term, as in the folks who identify with dictatorships that are so-called communist.
The reason it’s a problem is that the folks who are left-leaning but uneducated sometimes get swept up in pro-authoritarian rhetoric that happens to oppose the west. I’m anticapitalist, leftist, etc. I see tankies and fascists having a lot in common. That seems dangerous in the sense that fascism is a real threat. Also, then, our ranks are being thinned out and co-opted by specific bad-faith actors. At the same time, when people buy into tankie (pro-Russia, pro-China, pro-North Korea) propaganda, this more or less consolidates some of the power that opposes actual leftists (as in, people who support human rights, equitable societies, environmental protection, etc).
Not really any argument against what you’re saying. Just kind of adding that the term tankie is actually useful to describe a specific viewpoint, but obviously not in the way that the previous commenter used it.
I agree completely, thanks for adding some important context.
That seems to be the function I see it used the most.
And yes, I do find it’s a good indicator that they aren’t very bright, or at least don’t want to engage in constructive conversations.
No. No. They’re right. When even Forbes reports that nearly 30% of people can’t afford their normal expenses and a further 40% living paycheck to paycheck, it’s a systemic issue. Payroll.org’s numbers from 2023 put the paycheck to paycheck at 78%.
Sure some of those are poor spending habits but, to brush it off as that is wishful thinking. Could blame it on neoliberalism but, people have been coerced into making the wealthy even more money in order to survive since long before that. Not having a home is illegal. Every bit of land on the plant is considered owned, whether occupied or not, so, there is no option to opt-out and refuse to participate while alive and free.
So posting on fediverse is going to change any of that how?
Not every action needs to serve a greater purpose or be related to financial gain.
What is the point of your question? It’s based on a completely useless, asinine observation. I guess what I’m asking is, are you trying to start shit or are you profoundly dim?
Im just pissed off at all this high minded gobshite about how capitalism is the source of all evil and immediately jumping into this fantasy of a perfect anrchism without any conceptualization of how to get from A to B. Not to mention that my “tankie” comment was sarcastic satire of lemmy comment sections whenever captialism is mentioned.
I hate eating and love grinding. God I grindso fucking hard they call me Tony hawk at work cause of all the the grinding I do. Living in a nice home and doing things you like is gay and lame. The woke loser libs want you to think we should have free time for things that make us happy so we can enjoy life. Pfft, ya know what I say? GRIND! FAMILY? NO TIME OR MONEY for that, GRIND! HOLIDAY? THATS GAY! GRIND HARDERRRRR! NIGHT WITH FRIENDS??? NAH NERD GRIIIIIIIINNNNNDDDD
Making the rich richer at my own expense makes me so goddamn HAAAAAAAARD!!!1!
Tell me about it buster. I’m fucking diamonds over here DIAMONDS 💎
Are these work addicts or realists though?
Huh, i’m a full on addict it seems.
DudeImMacGyverFell off the wagon again, fml
eezeebeeUh, yeah… Having been both homeless and starving, I’m going to keep working to avoid those fates from occurring again. You do you though.
It’s a stupid meme, don’t take it seriously…
It is indeed a stupid meme
Listen. All you need too do is have a near death inhabitating health emergency and you can retire in your forties and then maybe live another twentry-forty years on a fixed income.
Shits simple dog.
Just took five weeks off work on paid sick leave. Best thing I ever did for myself.
Do what I do, rob single mothers one day, chill the rest of the week
That’s not a work addict. That’s a wage slave.
I worked so hard for so long that I’m like this and it’s awful.
When I get time off, I don’t know what to do with myself. Right now I have a full time night/ weekend job and I’m attending university with 5 courses. This summer I’m considering picking up another job because I won’t know what to do with myself.