I often think about paradoxes

[Tintypographer]

I spend a lot of time thinking about the way that life is finite, works against entropy, assigns itself meaning and adapts with fear, concern for relevance in an enormous universe,is poorly understood and cherished by most cultures. That's just one of the paradoxes I imagine

The biggest one that gets me down lately is the phrase "earn a living". I think of this and say, "seriously?". We now insist that to be alive we must earn that. There was no choice in the living part of the equation and yet the concept has a cost assigned to it as a construct.

I saw something interesting play out: a local group of parents began meeting before and during the local soccer and baseball/softball games Saturday mornings with coffee, baked stuff then began cooking breakfast tacos and pancakes on portable stoves.

A man with a mini donut food truck who had paid for the right to sell his mini cake donuts at the parking lot for the activities noticed and complained. The fight became quite nasty. He began watching for kids and parents bringing stupid juice box related snacks and apple slices or parents bringing in coffee and stuff like that whether they cooked it there or not.

The curious part to me is that this guy had to earn a living to the point that he had to pay to use a group of people and then fight against wholesome activities in order to earn his living. I have no outrace because I don't actually care who is winning or losing this fight but the point is that his living must not only be earned it must be paid for and fought to protect.

Is a living really even a thing? It's something that you get just by being conceived. Then you do the basics of eat, breathe and stay at reasonable temperatures and try to not stop breathing or eating. But then to be allowed to do those things you have to somehow earn back the right to do that. And at the same time your life you are forced to earn is protected from your choice to harm it.

I don't know if wishing to die is the specific part that is hated. I think that people hate the idea that you don't want to work to earn a living anymore.

 

[Zegers]

- Why should you do anything at all?
But definitely, the concept of work is changing and people is more interested as in doing what they want or are interested in.

 

[jodes2]

Fuck working. I'm quite happy plodding along on disability. I don't think I could ever work. Thank god I don't have to try. Highly successful people should contribute more to people with shitty lives so they don't have to work

 

[EndlessDream]

I spend a lot of time thinking about the way that life is finite, works against entropy, assigns itself meaning and adapts with fear, concern for relevance in an enormous universe,is poorly understood and cherished by most cultures. That's just one of the paradoxes I imagine

The biggest one that gets me down lately is the phrase "earn a living". I think of this and say, "seriously?". We now insist that to be alive we must earn that. There was no choice in the living part of the equation and yet the concept has a cost assigned to it as a construct.

I saw something interesting play out: a local group of parents began meeting before and during the local soccer and baseball/softball games Saturday mornings with coffee, baked stuff then began cooking breakfast tacos and pancakes on portable stoves.

A man with a mini donut food truck who had paid for the right to sell his mini cake donuts at the parking lot for the activities noticed and complained. The fight became quite nasty. He began watching for kids and parents bringing stupid juice box related snacks and apple slices or parents bringing in coffee and stuff like that whether they cooked it there or not.

The curious part to me is that this guy had to earn a living to the point that he had to pay to use a group of people and then fight against wholesome activities in order to earn his living. I have no outrace because I don't actually care who is winning or losing this fight but the point is that his living must not only be earned it must be paid for and fought to protect.

Is a living really even a thing? It's something that you get just by being conceived. Then you do the basics of eat, breathe and stay at reasonable temperatures and try to not stop breathing or eating. But then to be allowed to do those things you have to somehow earn back the right to do that. And at the same time your life you are forced to earn is protected from your choice to harm it.

I don't know if wishing to die is the specific part that is hated. I think that people hate the idea that you don't want to work to earn a living anymore.

Yeah we are put in this world expecting to do a lot of stuff without our initial permission and suffer for not wanting to comply. Life must be by default suffering if nothing's done about it.

 

[BrailleTogepi]

Yeah, it never quite made sense to me the way people go (You must work if you want to be alive) + (Oh you don't want to be alive? Stop that!). It's like they want to have their cake and eat it too, like really, they're asking me to do something I don't want to do in order to... do something I don't want to do...

Huh. Lol

 

[EndlessDream]

Yeah, it never quite made sense to me the way people go (You must work if you want to be alive) + (Oh you don't want to be alive? Stop that!). It's like they want to have their cake and eat it too, like really, they're asking me to do something I don't want to do in order to... do something I don't want to do...

Huh. Lol

pretty sure they want us to be alive so we can be wage slaves, while being drugged up and pretend that our life is as great as someone who had everything handed to them

 

[Source Energy]

Fuck working. I'm quite happy plodding along on disability. I don't think I could ever work. Thank god I don't have to try. Highly successful people should contribute more to people with shitty lives so they don't have to work

I usually love your posts, but here I disagree. What obligation has someone who built themselves a success to contribute to the lives of others who mean nothing to them? Everyone lives for themselves, want to achieve success for their own goals and to share with the ones important to them - not with everyone in existence. If some of us didn't make it in life - it is not the fault of those who did.

 

[jodes2]

I usually love your posts, but here I disagree. What obligation has someone who built themselves a success to contribute to the lives of others who mean nothing to them? Everyone lives for themselves, want to achieve success for their own goals and to share with the ones important to them - not with everyone in existence. If some of us didn't make it in life - it is not the fault of those who did.

Thank you. I'm a socialist when it comes to the super rich, noone needs more than 10 mil in the bank. No-one deserves it just down to their luck and good fortune. I think it's unethical to be in a reality that allows people to channel so much money to any individual. It's not remotely natural or organic. Just the product of manipulation of large numbers of people and taking advantage of systems. In caveman times that kind of wealth was impossible, the way it should be