It’s a symptom of the times. Saw an ad earlier this week “tired, stressed? This will rob your body of important nutrients, get this vitamin pill to replenish them!”. Instead of reducing stress.
Somehow, maybe through the societal focus on individualism, we’ve gotten to this point where it’s all the individuals fault. It’s all about doing whatever it takes to get ahead, screw your body and peers, if you can’t take it, you’re too weak and a loser. But we’ll sell you products to cope! And people internalize this, are proud of working more efficiently at the cost of their health. That’s the really sad part, many actually start wanting this.
The system actively works against people and tries to train them to yearn for more of the same.
Colloquially, it’s the rat race. There’s nothing inherently wrong with striving nor sacrifice, but we must ask: to what end? At what cost? To what success if it costs you your soul? It better be worth it.
Social focus on individualism sounds like a dog’s focus on chocolate.
Maybe pursuing infinite, unbounded productivity gains forever isn’t sustainable. Maybe we need to build systems that work for people.
It’s a symptom of the times. Saw an ad earlier this week “tired, stressed? This will rob your body of important nutrients, get this vitamin pill to replenish them!”. Instead of reducing stress.
Somehow, maybe through the societal focus on individualism, we’ve gotten to this point where it’s all the individuals fault. It’s all about doing whatever it takes to get ahead, screw your body and peers, if you can’t take it, you’re too weak and a loser. But we’ll sell you products to cope! And people internalize this, are proud of working more efficiently at the cost of their health. That’s the really sad part, many actually start wanting this.
The system actively works against people and tries to train them to yearn for more of the same.
Colloquially, it’s the rat race. There’s nothing inherently wrong with striving nor sacrifice, but we must ask: to what end? At what cost? To what success if it costs you your soul? It better be worth it.
Social focus on individualism sounds like a dog’s focus on chocolate.