Ricki Yasha TarrOct 6

People needing to work so hard is intentional. I remember growing up, and watching technology boom, and thinking we're gonna have to figure out something soon, because fewer and fewer jobs will need to exist, and yet more people are working more jobs.

Society has encouraged people to not make friends, making being a loner and hyper introversion cool. They want people to work 12 hours, go home and watch TV, and have no energy to do anything else. Convince people that it is a choice or personality quirk or feel alone all the time. When really you just never have any time to recover your social battery, because you're always working.

They're trying to convince us that it's the generation, it's not, there were always introverts. They just know if people have time to get together, they have time to organize, they have time to think about why it's like this. They have time to realize they aren't alone.

Show threadPetra van Cronenburg

@RickiTarr In France, we see this problem in #volunteering. For a lot of volunteering jobs, the generation which is now 55-65 yrs old may be the last. A lot of cultural institutions will close then ...
One said reason was "egocentrism/social media use". But the real reason is that younger people get terribly exhausted from work and family. Many need more than one job to survive.
Volunteering is a big opportunity to escape isolation and meet like-minded people.

#volunteer #cooperation #community

Oct 6 at 1:36pmWeb
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKOct 6
@NatureMC @RickiTarr same in Britain, my friend is in her later 50s and she is the youngest volunteer at the preserved railway (the others are all 70+ and some are now struggling to deal with hauling ballast and other heavy things you have to do on a railway), and they struggle to get volunteers not because young people don't like trains (you only need to look on Fedi to see how popular they are!) but they genuinely don't have the time to volunteer as they have to concentrate on paying jobs and survival..
Show threadPetra van CronenburgOct 7
@vfrmedia It's so sad ... @RickiTarr