Letters: Readers respond to an article about quitting the rat race, with some saying their generation was handed an untenable position and others saying the struggle is nothing new
Yeah that’s fine, and completely true. I think people on Lemmy sometimes just get confused by the stat and don’t realize like… how hard most every generation before them also had to work (at least before 1970 or so). Like, on average, much harder than today.
People see the whole productivity rise and people who are maybe not exactly lateral thinkers think that means the average employee literally works so much harder compared to the “comparatively easy” lives of before.
Yeah that’s fine, and completely true. I think people on Lemmy sometimes just get confused by the stat and don’t realize like… how hard most every generation before them also had to work (at least before 1970 or so). Like, on average, much harder than today.
People see the whole productivity rise and people who are maybe not exactly lateral thinkers think that means the average employee literally works so much harder compared to the “comparatively easy” lives of before.
It just ends up creating really… strange dynamics
How do we know, though? Everyone will think they worked the hardest, suffered the greatest, deserve the most.
Just because I’m not working in a rock factory doesn’t mean I don’t also work hard to sustain any measure of a valuable life
Comparison is the thief of joy
Joy is an illusion. Comparison is reality.
That doesn’t make any sense lol
It reads like some Jaden Smith level of insight
But you have a good one
I guess a more optimistic way to say it is “ignorance is bliss”. I never liked that saying. Ignorance is not a good thing.