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Re:An Honest Living by Veen on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @07:47AM (#19198539)
Matthew B. Crawford's "Shop Class for Soulcraft" and "The World Beyond Your Head" are excellent explorations of how manual work can change your outlook on the world.

I've recently become obsessed with woodworking videos on YouTube. I think watching Paul Sellers spend two hours making a drawer with hand tools has become for me a cathartic release of my frustrations at spending the day in front of a screen interacting with nothing physical except a keyboard.

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Re:An Honest Living by aaaaaaaaaaab on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @08:02AM (#19198613)
Koreans watch others eating [1], westerners watch others doing manual labor. Welcome to the future!

https://gizmodo.com/you-can-pay-to-watch-strangers-eat-on-th...

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Re:An Honest Living by porpoisely on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @09:07AM (#19198976)
Americans do both. I love homesteading, hunting, fishing, outdoors cooking and outdoors eating videos.
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Re:An Honest Living by decebalus1 on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @11:34AM (#19200161)
Huh. Just the other day I listened to this podcast https://www.npr.org/2019/02/05/691697963/close-enough-the-lu... which discusses this exact new wave of living vicariously. Woodworking videos is one of the examples in the show. I highly recommend listening to it.
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