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Re:My second year without a job by zeroCalories on Saturday December 07, 2024 @02:34PM (#42352225)
The goal is to maximize your happiness. Putting yourself into a precarious and stressful financial situation because of memes is irrational. Buying a sleeping pod might be rational for some, not for others. Those aren't cultural though, they're personal.
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Re:My second year without a job by s1artibartfast on Saturday December 07, 2024 @03:39PM (#42352715)
I dont really understand the distinction you are drawing between cultural and personal. Personal opinions are shaped by culture and memes.
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Re:My second year without a job by zeroCalories on Saturday December 07, 2024 @06:15PM (#42353604)
Your personal preferences are influenced by culture, but they include your material realities. If you're making decisions about your finances/housing without considering your material reality, you've been meme'd into a decision. A lot of people have been influenced into believing that being an owner is always better than being a renter, so they make stupid decisions.
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Re:My second year without a job by s1artibartfast on Monday December 09, 2024 @10:41PM (#42373495)
Im not going to argue against the idea that stupid decisions are stupid or that some people make them.

My point is rather that preferences, including the material reality that you seek, are almost entirely cultural. There is no culture vs reality, but rather some cultural values vs other cultural values

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Re:My second year without a job by zeroCalories on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @11:24PM (#42396199)
You're entirely missing the point. It doesn't matter if wanting to buy or live in a pod is cultural. What matters is how happy you are at the end.
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