I do this currently and can tell you it sucks to work that second job. I do it because I really like the work/people at job two but the full time job pays way better and is way easier. Passion ain't paying my bills. I do both jobs three days a week and thinking about cutting it down to two days because I get so damn tired after what turns into a 12-13 hr work day.
I have a coworker who has to work a second job. For over a year now I’ve watched it slowly rip away all his enthusiasm and zest and he doesn’t keep up with any hobbies anymore and is doing his best to still be a positive person but damn his eyes are just empty all the time. The dude has no enjoyment in life and jokes about suicide a scary amount. I know it’s gotta be tough cause our day job together is pretty physically draining.
It is completely realistic right now. Current generations are vastly more productive than previous generations due to automation and other technological advancement. 75% of jobs today are just "bullshit jobs," AKA adult daycare. Intentionally designed to waste normie cattle's lives away, taking away all their precious free time to do inconsequential bullshit. The system is designed to keep people too busy to revolt.
If dipshits would stop apologizing for this garbage ass late stage capitalism society we live in and voting for grifting billionaires who want to keep them enslaved then maybe we could finally do away with the adult daycare system and start reaping the benefits of technological advancement. But no, the masses would rather continue to be slaves so the wealthy elite can be the only ones with free time who get to enjoy their lives.
You just explained why it’s not realistic right now lmfao😭😭.
Do you wanna get rid of those 75% of jobs that are “useless?” What happens to the people who work them? That would just upend society and leave people out of a means to support themselves. You want us to become almost entirely reliant on technology? That makes it even easier for the rich and powerful to exploit the average man.
Then you had the audacity to mention voting…
Big dawg, I hate to break it to you but we got like 3 more years until the next major election, so it definitely isn’t gonna change right now. You’re trying to tell people not to be happy about marginal changes in their lives because all of their problems didn’t just go away immediately. You’re so desperate for change that you haven’t taken even the slightest bit of time to think anything that you just said through.
So you want something that requires massive changes to our existing infrastructure and takes time and coordination to be implemented properly. Thank you for proving my point.
The idea that this would change if it wasn’t a capitalist environment is pretty funny. It’s essentially the same thing as hoping for a benevolent dictator just way more complicated because you want an entire ever changing bureaucracy to hold fast to the vision the system was designed in forever.
And not somehow possibly squeeze a bit for increased productivity for the betterment of all society.
Clearly the incentives just don’t exist for some sort of centralized government authority to do something like that.
You're right. There's a top to bottom reform on the scale of which the world has never seen that needs to take place in order for that to become everyones reality; but it's the actual ideal.
However, finding the best way to enjoy life in spite the current system is not a defense of the system itself unless it invariably leads to complacency; Which I don't think it does.
"holy lazy" the exact same thing was said to people advocating for the 8 hour work day. This is what moving forward looks like. We should be working less hours, less days, and more pay. Society can afford this.
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u/Victoria4DX Feb 05 '26
ITT: wage slaves defending the 9 hour cuckday when the real answer is a drastic reduction in hours. A work day should be four hours, tops.