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It’s weird there’s no English word for that, now that you point it out, since it’s a pretty common thing.

Oh, and there’s also the FHSA, on that note.

They do not.

It’s far from the least safe country to be gay in, and decent by regional standards, but yes, it’s not the West.

I was wondering if it’s an American dismissiveness thing, but it looks like other Americans in this thread think that’s nuts, too.

If you turned down Harvard, sure, maybe it’s a downgrade. I have to think a community or private school nobody’s ever heard of would be worse. Unless you’re planning to go back to the US to work, in which case US-first might bite you.

Diversified stock without AI exposure is an option. Bonds give less return and also are looking a bit funny these days, while metals give literally zero.

Yeah, but timing the market is always iffy. For all you know the bubble will burst so far out that it’s still better to buy today.

Plus, you can invest in other countries. I myself hold some of an everything-except-the-US ETF.

… You know, this is kinda true. I can’t think of a single young person who looks at the future (writ large) with hope rather than dread, or at least YOLO-ish apathy. The difference between people is in degree, and if they think it will eventually get better again.

Even most old people know the outlook is kinda fucked.

Yup.

The Canadian equivalent is a TFSA, unless you max it out (congrats), then RRSP. Apparently there’s niche cases where RRSP is better, so look into it a bit.

The Mr.Beast Movie feels a bit like cotton candy flavoured cotton candy.

Ah yes, “all [ethnicitiy] are a bunch of savages, except a few good ones”

Could have been condensed a bit. Like, this has him saying the same thing n times, and that’s nice in that it shows it wasn’t a fluke, but then you run into the risk of TL;DW.

Yes, he was an extremist. And not the kind that’s intellectually honest about it, despite the marketing - you’ll notice he picked who got to ask him anything very carefully.

Of recent assassinations, it’s the least bad one. If you think that’s fucked up, refer to 4:30.

No, tribal signifiers are dumb and easy to fake. Ask anyone who’s infiltrated the far right.

Sure, but there’s no historical context there whatsoever, or even a present-day framing to narrow it down. The main thing it achieves, as a one-word response, is declaring a kind of tribal allegiance.

If you’ve clearly defined you mean “any market-based system” or “a system which no longer has a landed aristocracy”, among the many other possibilities, then sure, it’s not worth being a pedant about the exact word used. (Although, any conversation is more likely to be productive if you just say what you mean, instead)

My situation isn’t great, but it’s not new enough to really be “right now”.

Some people are doing just fine, but they’re not going to post as much. If you want a representative sample, you need a poll instead.

That suggests the problem is people don’t have any experience with capitalism, doesn’t it? Whatever it means to the person using the word, it’s always a system live in, or somewhat live in.

A handy word that means so little it’s never wrong.

Lemmy people are their own very specific kind of person.

I heard that back in the days, people used to just go when their work was done on the farms and there was no concept of 9-5 (these days seem 24 hours work).

Yup. In the ancient world, ascetics and monks would practice “having daily schedules” alongside various other harsh forms of penitence, like self-flagellation. One of the ancient Greek authors (Plato?) spoke about it unfavourably even in that context.

The flip side of that, is that if your animals or crops need something now, they need it now. There’s no maximum hours or work-life balance, either. Still, it’s fair to say most people that have experienced that much prefer it, if you put aside how uncomfortable the work itself is.

Because it’s kind of crazy, it’s also worth mentioning that people slept twice in a day, with some time spent up during the night.

There used to be a lot of holidays. Is that true?

Kind of.

Confining ourselves to Europe, there were a lot of public holidays in ancient Rome, and to a lesser extent lots of religious days and festivals in medieval Europe. The medieval holy days were more about fasting or similar than time off of work, though. And, in Rome, there were no weekends yet, so holidays basically served the same role.

Plus, most holidays were optional in both, so a deeply poor person or a slave with a tough master might work fairly continuously.

If it is, then given the abundance in technology, why our work hours increased and why do we have such weird lives that we live to work?

When industialisation came in, 12 hour days were fairly standard. Arguably, working hours have gone down.

As to why we work on schedules now, you basically just have to in a complex, highly specialised society. If you’re using tools you made and maybe a couple your friend the blacksmith made, and using them to produce food and housing from “your own” land, sure, it just all has to get done sometime. If you’re having a formal meeting or vote and show up 2 days late, like is recorded becoming a problem in medieval republics, it’s a bit disruptive.

Thank you for the footnote. Without that, it could also have been pedantry, or the German system, where secondary schools have postsecondary-like specialisations already.