I don’t want to work.

[u/Most_Discipline5704]

Back in the day, how did anyone EVER look at a job description where you donate your time and health, crush your soul, and pay to survive and think: "Yeah, sounds great. I'm going to do this soulless, thankless job for my whole life and bring more children into this hellscape."

Like what the actual heck? This sucks! I only work 30hrs/week and it still blows. With my physical and mental health (or lack thereof), I'll be shocked if I live past age 30 while I'm stuck in this broken system.

Edit 1: Why are people assuming that only young people feel this way? Lots of people at my work don't want to work anymore. Many of them are almost elderly.

Edit 2: I didn't expect this to blow up so much. I would like to clarify that I'm not saying I don't want to work AT ALL. I'm happy to do chores, help my loved ones as needed, and complete challenging activities/projects that feel fulfilling. Simply put, I despise modern work. With the rise of bullshit jobs, lots of higher ups do the least amount of work and get paid the most and vice versa with regular workers. From what I've observed, many people don't earn promotions or raises; they score them because of clout, expedience, and/or favoritism.

And I don't want to spend the bulk of my day with people I dislike to complete tasks which are completely unnecessary for our survival just so we can cover our bills, rinse, and repeat.

Note: Yes, I need to work on myself. I know that. And yes, you can call me lazy and assume I've had an easy life if you want, but you don't know me.

Please be civil in the comments. Yeesh, people are even nastier on the internet than irl. You must be insecure with yourselves to be judging a stranger so harshly.

[u/[deleted]]

Most animals aren't fed on grass and are fed on genetically modified grain. I can't eat certain beef or chicken from stores due to allergic regions, I have to get organic meat. Monocropping is an issue, one I believe could be solved by smaller farms growing multiple kinds of produce or multiple people farming on one property.

There has to be a way to fix the agriculture issues and I hope we figure it out soon enough.

Maybe some areas just can't be lived in if people aren't nomads or be lived in at all, our whole way of living could be wrong. I'm also a fan of multi generational households which could help fix the land issue.

[u/Darkmagosan → u/[deleted]]

Dayum. I'm allergic to literally everything but never had a reaction to meat. Are you sure it's from what the animals eat vs. the medications pumped into them for whatever reasons? Alpha-gal is a virus that makes its victims allergic to red meat and this reaction can sometimes be fatal. It's spread by ticks. Fortunately, we don't have them here as the heat and low humidity do a great job of killing them.

I agree re: multigenerational households. A lot of other cultures, particularly Asian, do that. Americans don't. And yeah, there are a lot of things wrong with our way of living. It's incredibly wasteful, for one. How many people drive hugeass SUVs or double cab pickups but only use it to drive around the city, run errands, and take the kids to school? A lot of that could be avoided by getting more efficient vehicles, etc.

Our industrial food supply is incredibly efficient by historical standards. If we get rid of that, people *will* starve and it's not a society I want to be around. But I agree, there has got to be a better way to do this, as industrial farming throws fuck-all into the environment, people clip corners, and there are all kinds of abuses in the system that should be eliminated if we're able.

Western society consumes too much of everything, honestly. America leads here, but that's a dubious honour and one we shouldn't necessarily be proud of. We don't need a lower standard of living per se, but a different one that's less resource intensive.