Self starter

If by vibe for the rest of the time you mean constantly watch for various forms of life threatening danger. Then sure.

Still a better time than constantly watching out for Manager Mark.

That is just kinda vibing. Don't know bout you but between my instincts and paranoia keeping watch for threats is a relatively calm vibe.
Yeah, or maybe "rest of the time" is literally when you're sleeping, because you spent 16 hours searching for berries, with maybe an hour or two nap when the sun was high. Life was certainly not easier a few hundred years ago, whether you lived in some community or were nomadic or whatever. Wherever it was, it was work, and it's work now, except where my work used to benefit me and my family and perhaps my community, now it buys some dude a yacht, and a private jet, and some wineries in Napa Valley. But I get to watch Netflix, so it's a fair trade.

I stopped lying in interviews. I'm tired of this shit. Fuck it, if my life is ruined, whatever, same outcome.

Just stop lying in general. If the people around you are invested in some fake reality its probably not good for you and youre better off.
- I'm with you on this. I generally disfavor candidates that are clearly telling me what they think I want to hear. I used to favor candidates who mentioned "I gotta get paid." Unfortunately, the new boss does not like that, so I gotta ditch that :(
Me too and it has somehow helped, like in Office Space.

I feel you.

Let me play devil's advocate tho and say: You can still do this if you really want to and you have at least double the life expectancy. I think we have become too good at entertainment and have collectively fried our dopamine receptors with instant reward, therefore making mundane work unbearable.

Nah. I still like mundane work when its for people i care about. When there are people i care about.
It's the capitalism and petty tyrannies that do it.
Not the work.
- I can definitely get behind this. It also makes me feel good about myself to help people I like.
nah, we worked to build it, we deserve the free time it entails. we don't actually need a handful of oligarchs to keep all the spoils.
- I agree with that, but I don't think these statements necessarily contradict each other.
making mundane work unbearable.
Finding joy in the quiet time doing the mundane work I CARE about (lots of yard work, construction, and taking care of my animals) is some of the most important meditative-type time that I spend, I have learned.
It makes work more bearable to more enjoyable when I can find a similar mental state, listening to the same music, etc.
Where does this myth come from?
https://sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2022/08/conversation-old-age-is-not-a-modern-phenomenon.php
- I know that life expectancy was mostly low because of infant mortality. Still the advancements in medicine cannot be denied.
Ehh, it is not that our dopamine receptors are fried. We are all wired to seek out information. But most of what we get is starving us for actual useful information so we have to wade through an endless sea of slop. The "instant gratification" is largely us not wanting to deal with the bullshit and get straight to what is useful.

Can look at VR porn with just nuts, berries and vibes. At least not now, we don't have the technology.

Mood.

Live in a van and migrate with the berries. Bater excess for fuel and keep moving. Or embrace full hobo and ride trains.

i wonder how dangerous van life really is
- well driving is one of the most dangerous things you can do, but if you avoid roads with significant traffic and go slow it might be decently safe

You are ofc aware that even if we successfully get rid of capitalism, we can't get rid of having to work, right?

But the way we work could change.
- This is the winner for me.
  I'm a manager, and I do my best to make things fulfilling, productive, physically and psychologically safe, and minimally stressful. I'm not the capitalist, so I don't have full control. But if those of us closer to the ground try to make the way we work more bearable, it can have an impact on the immediate surroundings.
  But yeah, we do need to fix the overarching system, since we don't have full control in this one.
what precisely do you think robots exist for?
- They don't, not in the way you are implying
- We do not exist in a world with technology sufficient to entirely eliminate labor. Even highly automated industry like in the PRC, labor-power is still paramount for production. A transition to socialism can allow us to better direct production consciously, rather than letting the eldritch god capital decide everything based on profitability, but we will not be able to eliminate labor, only center it, rather than capital.
- To pass butter.