The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[PoetPhilosopher]

When you work, you carry your weight.
When you don't, you force others to.

I like the second option. It sounds more appealing.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Worse than working a humiliating
job would be forcing someone else
to work that job to support you.

Let the Capitalists do my work, since they wanted that system.

Sorry if that's harsh.

 

[Revoltingest]

I like the second option. It sounds more appealing.

Well, as you said...you're a lefty.

 

[Revoltingest]

I disagree. Let the Capitalists do my work, since they wanted that system.

Sorry if that's harsh.

Try refusing to work under a socialist regime.
I'll wager they resent your choice of a free ride.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Try refusing to work under a socialist regime.
I'll wager they resent your choice of a free ride.

I can handle resentment since I come from a fundamentalist family with high expectations.

 

[Revoltingest]

I can handle resentment since I come from a fundamentalist family with high expectations.

Socialist regimes employ tools a wee
bit harsher than mere resentment.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Socialist regimes employ tools a wee
bit harsher than mere resentment.

I don't even know what you mean by "socialist regime". Which countries' governments are we talking about?

 

[Revoltingest]

I don't even know what you mean by "socialist regime". Which countries' governments are we talking about?

Governments with a socialist economy,
eg, USSR, Cuba, N Korea, Khmer Rouge.

 

[Wu Wei]

Wait...both random and meaningless

 

[Revoltingest]

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Compared to being a burden
imposed upon others, it would be.

Worse than working a humiliating
job would be forcing someone else
to work that job to support you.

The quote was "nothing is more ennobling than a job." That's clearly false. But Pence is wrong about a lot of things.
You're throwing in things that aren't even there.

 

[Wu Wei]

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I don't even know what you mean by "socialist regime". Which countries' governments are we talking about?

The ones he decides are and not necessarily by ones that have it explicitly worked into their system. That's just how he does it. Even if a country themselves say it, he'll only say ones like NK or China. But France or Norway? The reality most are mixed anyways?

 

[Wu Wei]

well.... i'm gong for a walk
TTFN

 

[Revoltingest]

The quote was "nothing is more ennobling than a job." That's clearly false.

It's clearly an opinion.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Ew.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I agree. However, I never believed those people to begin with.

I don't anymore.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I like the second option. It sounds more appealing.

I actually prefer the first, but I hold no illusions or romanticized idealizations of it. Most works sucks crap through a hundred bricks. Especially when you get treated as an expendable resource to the point you could sue (or could have, had I realized just how bad and illegal some positions I've been in actually were).

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

I actually prefer the first, but I hold no illusions or romanticized idealizations of it. Most works sucks crap through a hundred bricks. Especially when you get treated as an expendable resource to the point you could sue (or could have, had I realized just how bad and illegal some positions I've been in actually were).

Me, I don't hate work, but I dislike the idea of working for a living and would prefer a world with Universal Basic Income and free healthcare. And if those two things still don't cut it, I can work on the side still, of course.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Me, I don't hate work, but I dislike the idea of working for a living and would prefer a world with Universal Basic Income and free healthcare. And if those two things still don't cut it, I can work on the side still, of course.

Yeah. Myself, work cured me of the "live to work" mentality.
Amd when we look at us as humans, rather than economic things, we have our chores of survival we must do and then work, which often times doesn't really enrich us. It's a massive stressor we endure to pay the bills. It makes us sick. It injures us. It's not related to our own betterment or enrichment but we do it even though it some times kills us. But we endure it because it pays the bills. We say it's better this way, but is it?a
We can't get out of survival chores, but work should be enriching and bettering ourselves and society. Not enduring endless garbage so someone else (who you likely don't know and will never meet) can reap the prime benefits.