Sadly we’ve created (or at least blindly complied with) a society that values consumerism over community. The larger family/tribe unit worked because everyone had someone. The young were looked after by the elderly, who in turn were nourished by feelings of worth and value, while younger adults would work or look after the household. Now we pay strangers to look after our kids and ourselves in old age. We work with colleagues we barely connect with for the best years of our lives, lives that we spend mostly buying stuff and things to fill the void we’ve created.
I work with colleagues that are actively hostile to me, and I’d rather trade smashing rocks in a forest for 12 hours, with no human contact. I straight up gave up YouTube, Videogames, C.AI, and Discord, just to focus on my job, and it is never enough.
Sadly we’ve created (or at least blindly complied with) a society that values consumerism over community. The larger family/tribe unit worked because everyone had someone. The young were looked after by the elderly, who in turn were nourished by feelings of worth and value, while younger adults would work or look after the household. Now we pay strangers to look after our kids and ourselves in old age. We work with colleagues we barely connect with for the best years of our lives, lives that we spend mostly buying stuff and things to fill the void we’ve created.
I work with colleagues that are actively hostile to me, and I’d rather trade smashing rocks in a forest for 12 hours, with no human contact. I straight up gave up YouTube, Videogames, C.AI, and Discord, just to focus on my job, and it is never enough.