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Re:Ask HN: Are you ok? by citruscomputing on Thursday September 12, 2019 @05:05PM (#20956442)
The way you feel is normal. Please don't try to beat yourself into something you're not, or worse, feel guilty for not being able to. There's a line from a song I like that goes "This place is designed to kill us and make us think it's our fault."

Remember that the 40 hour work week was considered a victory for unions. Not as an "I should feel grateful that I have this", but as a sign that progress is possible, and class struggle is real.

Humans were not meant to live like this. "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

Re:Ask HN: Are you ok? by Melchizedek on Friday September 13, 2019 @10:23AM (#20962433)
Some humans like living like this.

They lack all imagination so they have nothing better to do anyway. They have no charisma or empathy so work is only the place for them to hang out with people. They hate people who thrive outside of work so they want everyone's life to be consumed by it.

Re:Ask HN: Are you ok? by qorrect on Thursday September 12, 2019 @05:39PM (#20956761)
|There's a line from a song I like that goes "This place is designed to kill us and make us think it's our fault."

What song ?

Re:Ask HN: Are you ok? by Choco31415 on Thursday September 12, 2019 @07:05PM (#20957431)
Not sure if citruscomputing is referring to this, but Death/Bad Girl from Thank You by Black Dresses has that lyric. It’s towards the end:

“i didn't even know what i was going thru

until like, a year ago

and now it's everything

this place is designed to kill us

and make us think it's our fault”

Re:Ask HN: Are you ok? by citruscomputing on Friday September 13, 2019 @10:32AM (#20962505)
yeah it's that one :)
Re:Ask HN: Are you ok? by luhn on Thursday September 12, 2019 @05:49PM (#20956845)
Re:Ask HN: Are you ok? by jwilk on Thursday September 12, 2019 @06:16PM (#20957057)
Linking to search engine results page is almost never helpful.
Re:Ask HN: Are you ok? by AntiqueFig on Friday September 13, 2019 @04:09AM (#20960143)
And almost always pedantic.