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Must have been nice. I was an “essential” worker so I spent the entire time busting my ass in the middle of a packed grocery store, terrified of being assaulted by some angry dicknosed moron and bringing their lethal infection home to my elderly parents. I started having panic reactions to seeing unmasked faces, even those of close family members I was living with. Meanwhile, I kept hearing all these people talk about being paid twice my wages to sit at home and learn new skills like I had always wished I could afford to do.
And what did I get for all of my hard work? A fancy pin from my employer with a letter patting themselves on the back for protecting us. They didn’t protect us at all! They actively defied the mask mandate and told us it was our own fault if customers threatened or attacked us for wearing one!
I was and am still blown away people worked through all that without getting/demanding hazard pay.
I mean, considering all the unions going on strike nowadays I’d have been furious if my union didn’t seize the opportunity to demand better wages and working conditions.
My Union is banned from striking since I work in health care here in Sweden, yay us
I felt with the same thing, god did I hate that shit. Our place opened an hour early to allow seniors to shop, but I’m pretty sure from what I saw we were open an hour early, were we allowed to come in an hour early to get the same work done? Fuck no. Did they hire on additional staff to allow us to get everything done? God fucking no. God I hated that place. I was so jealous of people that got to stay home. I was on my local reddit at the time and some one suggested doing that dumb thing of “he, lets all yell out our windows at 8 or 9.” I replied fuck no, I have to go to bed at that time and get up super early, I didn’t want to hear a bunch of entitled fucks screaming for five minutes and while I’m trying to go to sleep. Yeah people with an office job got a glimpse of the good life, miserable fucks working retail were treated so much worse then working regular retail. I always say I can tell who hasn’t worked retail before.
But without the cruel hand of corporate denial to resources how will /we/ ever have innovation /s
i wish i did that instead of getting depressed from the lack of human contact and living the same day for almost a year
Where does the flour for the bread come from ?
From my pantry, duh
Well obviously somebody has to toil so the rest of us can do fuck all, but if they’re poor and far away we don’t have to think about them too much.
From the essential workers who don’t get to enjoy this wonderful utopia everyone is so excited about. Ask healthcare workers how they liked the pandemic.
Right? This utopia is only for a select few who brag about how great it will be when they don’t have to deal with anyone else and can just fuck around without having to think of others.
Some of us were laid of in states that didn’t provide unemployment pay and suffered trying to find work, and being taken advantage of. They dream of a dystopia because they were on the good side of it.
I’d like to fully automate grain harvesting.
Fun fact: I once talked about this with a distant relative, and they replied “but wouldn’t that imply a loss of workplaces for farmers?”.
Funner fact: they basically have automated grain harvesting. Combine harvesters can use GPS positioning to drive themselves. They also come with remote controllers much like a model airplane, or drone does.
And yes, it does mean that the farmers aren’t hiring as many farm hands as they used to.
Do you happen to have a link? I only find articles talking about attempting it, but not making it.
Unfortunately, no. I can’t find the article that I read about it.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=825040354964874
That’s the best I found
I remember my brother suffering from depression because he just no way of getting out of his apartment
I remember people people dying and not being able to go meet/help them
I remember the working class suffering because they just couldn’t work
I am not blaming anyone but it wasn’t “singing and dancing” for most people except the most privileged
The ‘most privileged’ we’re throwing ‘Covid parties’. They were the ones pushing ahead in line for limited vaccines. They were the ones out at ski resorts while sick. They were the ones who denied Covid but went out and got Covid and then demanded treatment, putting more than necessary pressure on a limited and very strained emergency system.
I don’t think the home bodies are your enemy here.
Quarantine was a tough time for large majority people in my country
Everyone wasn’t dancing and making bread at home.
Thats all.
Noted. Still not an excuse to misuse words like ‘privlege’ just so you can start a fight with someone who isn’t your enemy.
What are you going on about enemies?
I just found the post insensitive.
Nah I don’t think anyone is the enemy really, but it certainly wasn’t a very comfortable experience, for myself at least I think that the lockdowns gave everyone a kind of deep empathy for how society can breed a prison mentality at a large scale
Whether it’s to uphold a certain system in society, e.g. drug war, propaganda or to prepare to engage in a hot war or simply to spread a cult dogma, there’s a huge Stockholm syndrome experience for everyone who is born into a society or complex system as a whole
Participating in society isn’t the same thing as being in a prison. There are always rules and consequences in any social organization, whether it’s a prison, a school, a gang or a rave. If the organization is a village, city or state, that is somewhat wealthy and somewhat democratic, most people followed rules to be ethical, rather than out of fear for themselves.
Our society right now is organized in the fashion of 20th century institutions, and in the ways that ideas are validated, rules are made, disseminated and followed does feel like an institutional bureaucracy - like a prison, a school, or an office that generates rules by consensus of a small group of leaders or experts. And it is always a moral good to see the water we are swimming in, whether it’s how our society is organized and its shortcomings, how our thoughts and behaviors are habitualized and unhealthy.
And yes, there are always people who have strong feelings for or against institutional rules, make that a large part of their identity, and crusade for the rules to be adopted or rejected. And sometimes, these people are crusading against their own self interests. For example, a working class individual who fights against progressive or corporate taxation.
So I agree with most of your points. But your framing makes it seem like (assuming you’re American) we live in an oppressive society that uses psychological tricks to brainwash people into following draconian rules. But, relative to much of the world today, and all of history, that is just a wild exaggeration. The kind of wild exaggeration that is used to sell ad time these days, which beggars down votes.
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No I don’t remember that. I remember doing what I did before lockdown. Work.
Yes. It was awesome.
My life is still like that. But boring but will never go back to working…
As an extreme extrovert, the pandemic was hell for me. I had just moved to a new city and was working a job I hated, with a boss who didn’t believe Covid was real. I had no time off, no friends, no way to meet new people, and I worked 14 hours a day pouring concrete with some of the dumbest people I’ve ever met in my entire life.
I fell into like a year long depression.
Sorry it was hard for you. I hope you can appreciate how hellish every other year can be for us extreme introverts.
Right lol
Wow that’s harsh, wishing you well
Yeah I gained like 50 pounds during that time, even with the working a physical job constantly. Since then though I moved back to where I’m from, started jogging all the time, work a job I really like, and dropped all the weight again. Im fine now but Covid sucked ass when it was bad.
Yeah… except I lost my job and the government where I live gave no help to anyone. It seems good to live in the imperial core and get free treats from the government to stop you from revolting.
Not really sustainable, I don’t think. There were shortages of all sorts of food and supplies in the first year alone. Also, during that time the rich got a lot richer.
Yeah, it seems like people forgot about the PPP “loans” which were basically a 5 o’clock free money giveaway for the wealthy.
To be fair if it were to happen again or an asteroid hit us carrying a deadly disease I think we would be a lot more prepared for another round so to speak, human nature is always to prepare for a conflict of interaction of some sort in one way or another
I think by now the supply and demand normalized to what it was before the pandemic. In general markets will only create as many goods as is optimally profitable. I haven’t seen any massive warehousing companies pop up overnight to store potable goods for the end times, so probably not going to happen next time.
Yet, we are forced to return to the office because PrOdUcTiViTy and pRoFiTs, even though every study that looked into such matters generally found that productivity rose during WFH/COVID.
Yay! Is it the future yet?
In this thread everyone was a work martyr and no one had time off. As Marsha said in the Brady Bunch “Sure Jan”.
seems like the essential workers probably are just more likely to comment here
Of course, you were a kid and didn’t have to work. I might as well say the same thing about the 80’s.
Mate I worked all the way through the pandemic (electrical engineer) and I still think it was glorious.
Good for you
You haven’t been on social media much in that time I suppose
I still had to work. It wasn’t a fucking vacation.
But you remember that others did such things? Not every meme is about you
Yes, I absolutely remember people with no jobs talking about how great it was that they have so much free time now. On the other hand, op seems not to remember (or maybe they were never aware) that other people’s experiences were not the same.
Not every meme is about you
Do you not know what the word “everyone” means?
people with no jobs
Not people with no jobs but also people who couldn’t exercise their job for the time being. For people with no job, not too much changed
Do you not know what the word “everyone” means?
Do you know what a hyperbole is? Of cause this generalization is wrong, all generalizations are
Do you know what a hyperbole is? Of cause this generalization is wrong, all generalizations are
Then why are you so upset that I’m not 100% accurate and literal with my language?
Not people with no jobs but also people who couldn’t exercise their job for the time being. For people with no job, not too much changed
Of course this generalization is wrong. All generalizations are.
Not people with no jobs but also people who couldn’t exercise their job for the time being. For people with no job, not too much changed
Of course this generalization is wrong. All generalizations are.
Well played
