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  • The paradox of post-industrial society

    You wake up, do nothing, go sleep, wake up next time and realize that society hasn't collapsed, world didn't fall apart. Even your local community is surviving another day as usual. So what's the point? You are clearly not needed anywhere, you don't have to contribute, everyone does fine without you. In the past small, local communities couldn't afford neets, everyone had role, whether it's tanner, woodworker, hunter, farmer or guard - those jobs were necessary for survival of everyone. But now... in the global village population is so big, that there are 100 if not 1000 people waiting on a single position, you really don't have to do anything, especially with more and more simple work done by machines. There also technical jobs, that might indeed be lacking in personel, but they are well paid because of reason - it's hard and not everyone is capable of doing them, why would it be different? Technological progress moved way too fast for our brains, which are evolutionary still be in 20000 years in the past, we are simpletons, mostly. Doing high math or IT stuff is for rare cases of anomalies, not norm. Slogans like "what can you do? go learn some skill to be useful, needed in job market" makes you feel horrible, because you are no longer respected as a human being, but a tool. Anywhere you go the employer won't respect you, because he can easily find replacement, so you have to endure toxic job environment or you're getting fired at some point. There's lack of organic motivation to work, it's just relict of the past. Society is however cruel, because while you can even claim that you don't care, won't contribute and have no ambitions they won't let you die. Euthanasia is not legal and people can't willingly die in a humane manner. That's the biggest crime of our society, they are forcing us to live, even if it's burden for them. Psychology/human brain is not yet well known part of science, so there's not even proper treatment, lack of social emphaty and understading if you have problems, just meds that might reduce symptoms, but never fix the cause. Modern hyper capitalistic society is not even healthy anymore. People who do important stuff won't earn much, it's those most cynical and stupid ones that can earn millions. Things that sell most, sell because they rely on most atavistic features of human brain. Fast dopamine injection, beautiful people doing silly things. Good luck working hard all day in the hospital or on farm, while some celebrity makes more by one post than you for a year. Everything is so wrong about our civilization, that without some shock therapy and years of fixing, there are going to be much more suffering out there. The best quote ever, by Jiddu Krishnamurti: *It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.*
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