I can’t really be mad at this. Parents joke all the time about feeling like personal assistants. Even before technology, it takes 20+ years for most people to understand that their parents are just some random guys.

I still have to contend with all the things everyone else has to do and recognizes as shitty but somehow get done while I just suck ass at everything.

I don’t have any advice, but I want to say that this really resonated with me.

I think I get the difference between “use value” and “exchange value”, but what does he mean by generic “Value”?

Even disregarding JKR, Harry Potter is bad. It’s single-handedly responsible for 93% of individualist elitism in young adults.

Yeah, I hope I didn’t come across as shitting on parents. The nuclear family hurts you too. It’s insane to expect two people to shoulder all that work, much less one person. A lot of people don’t have that restraint.

nah you can still have bedtimes in communal family arrangements

Ironic. I totally get you though. Feeding the homeless is more likely to end with arming the homeless than the rituals we call protests.

Capitalist Realism was for me quite a depressing read so it’s reassuring that it actually helped someone on the path to the grill. It’s definitely true that the doomscroll impulse can’t be simply avoided, it needs to be replaced with as you say, empowerment, agency, and community. I’m curious how you initially leaped over that seemingly infinite gap?

It’s also nice to see that someone who managed to actually start doing praxis remembered their poster roots. I can imagine for many people who succeed in logging off, they would need that categorical ban, so to another poster it looks like nobody succeeds because our only interface is posts. Now shoo! Back out into the world with you! We’ll join you when we’re ready. o7

I thought they banned vidya altogether?

If an invasive species is clearing forests then let it run its natural course. Humanity is the virus. :fedposting:

KMT went through a lot of changes after the Stalinbux dried up lol, and only at that point started to collab with Germany etc.

The Soviets were also twisting Chiang’s balls pretty hard but you got a point

that’s what we’ve done for a long time now. has it worked?

I hope I’m not minimizing any experience, my point is that we haven’t found a strategy for this specific problem that has worked yet.

I’m just a bit disillusioned with the whole “combating unconscious bias” thing. We’ve tried it for centuries with nothing to show for it.

We should focus on struggles where we have some type of leverage to create meaningful change in people’s lives. I don’t see how telling people to be attracted to people does either of those

You’re not wrong, but imma have to whip out the old “healthcare pls” :yes-honey-left:

YOU SHOULD BE ATTRACTED TO X DEMOGRAPHIC is not only useless, it’s bad vibes, and most importantly, counterproductive