Re:Ask HN: When you feel stuck in life
by humanrebar on Friday July 22, 2016 @04:44PM
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> Seek to abolish the existing world order.
Seems like abolishing world orders takes a lot of work. At least more than ten hours per week.
You just have to abolish smarter, not harder.
10 hours a week would be fantastic. Or any non-zero amount of time. If everyone did this it would be a revolutionary force the likes of which have not been seen in decades.
Re:Ask HN: When you feel stuck in life
by throwaway1979 on Friday July 22, 2016 @07:38PM
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I am not sure about the work less/work less hard comments. I get paid a decent, fair wage by my employer. I personally consider it "justice" if I do my best and give them my best. As a new father, I have to fight to work hard and also give my family time.
I abolished the world order- thermo-dynamics is gone- you are free, no need to eat the sun anymore and to fight your way up in the layer of sun-eating-refinement order.
If you want to abolish something, at least make a suggestion with what you want to replace it.
Re:Ask HN: When you feel stuck in life
by RileyKyeden on Saturday July 23, 2016 @08:38AM
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This is an odd thing to say in a place where disruption for disruption's sake is the order of business. No one wants to think about how their productivity-enhancing products destroy ways of life without offering a good replacement.
Odd in a good way. Yes, let's smash capitalism, but let's not replace it with a more oppressive system, as often happens in revolutions.
I like it! Life's too serious and people need some chaotic ambiguity to spice it up.
> Don't work hard. Try to reduce your productivity.
Sounds good. Most people aren't as productive as they think they are, imho. I'd rather not buy into their facade and just be as productive as I need to be when I need to be!
> Don't work long hours. Reduce your working week to the minimum necessary. Most university graduates earn enough to live comfortably on 10 or 20 hours work per week.
Eh, I don't know where you live, but 10-20 hours of work would be a straight path to homelessness. Unless you mean actual hours of productive work (in a nominal 40 hour work week). Then it's a good target.
> Have less stuff. Go outside more, even if it's to play Pokemon Go.
Completely agree. Going outside in the summer and staying inside (a suburban home) has changed my life for the better more than any other single thing.
> Do things for other people.
Any suggestions? What do you think most people would like done for them?
> Seek to abolish the existing world order.
I think the world order is doing a pretty good job in that on its own.