I’d not only day ability to travel but ability to follow any passion. Setting the world, making art, opening a store, whatever makes you do b something you just love doing just for the activity itself.
Don’t forget that “may you live in interesting times” is a curse
The Zhuangzi has a chapter called “Mastering Life.”
Then again, I’ve been reading the whole book back to front dozens of times. It completely changed me, but for it all to sink it, it took a while.Just downloaded to Kindle. Thanks for reminding me.
Bro this isn’t funny. Give me back my luxuries right now
Some of these should be considered fundamental basics or rights, and not “luxuries”.
The “slow mornings” one is my favorite.
For me “slow mornings” means I get to take my time as I poop, shower, and then enjoy a cup of coffee in absolute silence. Before my day is ruined by my kids fighting or asking me for things.
I bet having kids is an amazing experience but my partner and I are not having kids and we’re getting older, so “slow mornings” means we wake up, go back to sleep, get up at noon, have some kratom, shit, order breakfast sammiches, and lay in bed watching random stuff until dinner.
Basically most weekends.
Fucking dream. Could take or leave the kratom but i respect it.
That’s fair, hahaha. Almost every weekend day is like this for us, ever since COVID started (not always the kratom, but it does help us shit). I do not take it for granted one single day. Just lazy bed days, surrounded by cats, using a wireless keyboard to put on whatever media sounds good at the time.
The payback is knowing that one day their kids will do the same to them, right ;)
Well, I make home-cooked meals, at least.
I don’t see ‘books telling tales of my conquests bound in the skin of my vanquished enemies’ on that list.
Yeah, I’ve got one maybe two of that list. FML
Amen to that
One that a lot of us take for granted is being able to breathe easily.
or control when and where we go to the bathroom.
Wait, this isn’t a shitpost
Hey, you’re right! Why aren’t the mods executing OP!?
It’s something most of us cannot afford to achieve, probably.
Can somebody send that to President Musk and his apprentice?
Trusk buys Time magazine.
Unfortunately, you do need money for like 2/3rds of those
Some money yes, but an average salary should work for all of them, no?
Not in America
“Average” is a vague definition
neither vague nor a definition
average is the sum of a list of values divided by the size of the list.
Well, if you look at the average salary across the whole world, an overwhelming majority of people doesn’t make enough money to survive, so there’s that
ooh look at you, so smart!
ohoho, thankyou ☺️
No. If you’re going to be pedantic, at least be right.
Average
noun
- a number expressing the central or typical value in a set of data, in particular the mode, median, or (most commonly) the mean, which is calculated by dividing the sum of the values in the set by their number.
The term average, inherently refers to at least three different ways to calculate the central value in a data set. What you’re talking about is mean, but it can also mean mode, or median, and there are other, even, more complicated calculations than those depending on your context.
So yes, average, is an inherently vague and hard to define term.
youre right, i take it back
Idk, generally people mean the mean by average and the median by median, but I get your point. (But I think the term average salary can be ambiguous for other reasons, not disagreeing there.)
Average salary (that is, the mean) isn’t that good of a metric even if you account for region, industry and so on, because just one outlier can easily skew your entire statistics. Median is much more useful in that regard.
Source: me, someone who writes tools for processing and gathering large amounts of confidential employee data, including salaries of wide range of companies across multiple countries.
You don’t win life because you have more toys than the other guy
But you do lose for not being able to afford bare necessities
you know nothing of loss if that is your baseline
…
Did you literally just use “there are fates worse than death” as some kind of comeback to someone saying that not being able afford necessities leads to “losing” (death), as a way to argue that a society that allows this should be improved?
What are you saying? That people not being able to feed and/or house themselves is fine, because there are worse kinds of “loss”?
What the fuck is point of “one-upmanship” around the baseline of suffering? And how is “people not dying” not a pretty good place to start when it comes to what society should try to achieve?
you took my sentence and turned it into a novel
good job, almost like chatgpt
having been penny less and homeless with my family and surviving because it’s what my family does, has always done.
I have heard stories of life from my cousins who were born in Pine Ridge SD (look it up)
they are poor and hungry but I have explained my baseline of losing and being poor. What is your baseline?
What? What the hell do you even mean by “baseline”?
Again, what are you saying? You replied adversarially to someone who was making the point that society should be improved so as to not allow things like people starving to death, or becoming homeless. Are you agreeing with them or trying to shut them down?
Are you saying society barely doing anything to help people in such situations is fine, because you survived it? Because that is what it seems like, and my reply is in response to such an utterly insane take.
Society should prevent death and suffering as much as the available resources allow. Who the fuck cares where you draw the line for “good enough”?
If we can do better, then we should.
That’s almost as poetic as it is meaningless
That’s not my take on the image above, that’s my response to OP’s comment. But feel free to take that out of context if it helps you sleep at night
And people for the other 1/3.
And how do you buy people if not with money
where are you buying your people?
Let’s just say it isn’t as easy as it used to be
Just go to Dubai, they’ll get you all sorted out.
Yeah I had thought that it was (probably, in some ways or places) easier than it had ever been before with the internet and rampant unchecked capitalism. but history has many vicious twists and dark moments not recounted through time and people have almost certainly been much cheaper or sold in far greater numbers into slavery in prior centuries. so maybe we are continuing to soften up as a world shaping apex species and gradually becoming more considerate towards one another as our concept of a “tribe” or “in-group” continues to widen.
Money isn’t everything but with no money at all, there isn’t much left
Too bad the majority of them require disposable income.
That’s why it says “luxuries”
