(water is wet and fire is hot).

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    7 months ago

    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

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      7 months ago

      most every generation before them also had to work (at least before 1970 or so). Like, on average, much harder than today.

      How do we know, though? Everyone will think they worked the hardest, suffered the greatest, deserve the most.

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      7 months ago

      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

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          7 months ago

          That doesn’t make any sense lol

          It reads like some Jaden Smith level of insight

          But you have a good one

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            7 months ago

            I guess a more optimistic way to say it is “ignorance is bliss”. I never liked that saying. Ignorance is not a good thing.