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  • Undertones are entirely social concepts and depend on the culture of a region, and usually involve nonverbal communication in things like tons and body language to discern differences. Adding the language barrier just complicates things even more.

    Most people unfortunately don't consciously consider this stuff and just assume everyone is like them.

    So, as you said, commenting online is a risky game.

  • Your statement does a poor job in its addition and neglects certain important nuances by being overly generalized in its phrasing.

    "Not being busy" doesn't make you braindead and depressed. It is an important distinction between simply "not being busy" and "being forced into stagnation to the point it becomes hazardous to your health"

  • Yes, I live in a society. Such a profound statement. Almost like that's the goal so I put my effort into changing that society instead of thinking I'm so much better for having removed myself from it.

  • Nice fucking assumptions asshat.

    Not like I literally went to college for wildlife conservation and have done entire reports on regenerative agriculture practices. My favorite is multispecies rotational grazing to help incorporate the whole ecosystem into how we cultivate the land. Though, my education spanned much more than just agricultural practices and more on ecosystem health and sustainability on macro scales.

    I know much more than you think. I don't really give a shit about your little bs rant. A lot of the bs you go on about are much deeper societal issues that are not unique to rural or urban life but the very fabric of our interconnected society as a whole. I don't care about how little money you live your life on. Needing money is a much larger societal issue that needs to be solved and everyone fucking off into the woods to start their own individual homesteads is not how you make a functional society.

    Yes, modern city life has issues and industrialized society is environmentally harmful, especially suburbia, but everyone living isolated plots is not sustainable in the slightest. Just because you and your family are able to do it doesn't mean that everyone can while the entirety of society facilitating the existence of people wanting to live so spread and distanced from each other is causing massive resource drains and itself causes environmental harm in the externalities of facilitating it on a structural level.

    As much as you like to imagine you live apart from society out in your little fiefdom, you're still very much a part of it.

  • It's a balance. Not being busy is good sometimes; it's called "resting" and it's important for mental health.

    But yes, to what I believe you're trying to get across, being forced to be stagnant for extended periods of time (such as solitary confinement) can have deleterious effects on one's mental and even physical health.

    The point is also more about having agency over whether or not you have to be doing something and how you get to do it.

  • it would remove all the incentive for everyone to want to amass a fortune for themselves

    Like... That's the point?

    everyone should be free to get as much money as they want without limits because that is what drives human progress

    I love when they say this because it is the obvious projection of a greedy mind. Like no, it doesn't drive human progress, it actually stifles it as the greedy do all in their power to maintain their profit streams, which includes frustrating the development of competition.

  • Kinda sorta.

    It is more that the things we are busy doing are not fulfilling. Half of everything we do is because we are forced to do it to survive.

    Contrary to popular belief, people actually like to do things and to keep busy/be productive... when we have control over what those things are

  • Right? That kind of mentality is just selfish. It shows that someone doesn't know how to live with others and wants to make that everyone else's problem.

    Lol if you want to go live outside of civilization then go ahead; just don't expect things like electricity, roads, and running water unless you can build it yourself. Facilitating all these antisocial people living out in bumbfuck is a massive drain on resources and fucks things up for the rest of us.

  • I live in the country.

    It's never peace and quiet. It's constantly filled with the noise of shitty neighbors blasting music at full volume cause they don't understand that sound travels. Then there are the gunshots every damn morning from dipshit shooting in their field. I'm constantly worried one day a missed shot is gonna come through my window.

    Let's not even get started on when they brun the fucking fields (sugar cane) and the entire area is covered is astringent smoke and ash.

    Living in town, people understood that neighbors exist and at least attempted to be considerate about it; plus, I never had to worry about catching strays. Also, life was so much nicer, not needing to fucking drive everywhere just to do basic things or go get something to eat. Being able to walk or catch a bus was so much more convenient and stress-free than needing to drive myself. I was able to have a lot more free time since I wasn't spending it on an overlong commute just to get anything done.

  • If I'm any more than a 15 minute walk to my nearest grocer I consider it hell. Fuck needing to pay insurance, maintenance, and gas costs just to be able to perform basic chores.

    Needing to waste an hour just to get groceries sounds so dumb.

  • This.

    These people are not equipped to handle the cognitive dissonance of having their beliefs challenged. They will simply compartmentalize away any contradictions so they don't have to think about it. If you try to force the issue they become vitriolic and refuse to engage with you any further, usually resorting to character defamation to label you as someone who is not trustworthy and can be readily disregarded.