Yes. So your boss can enjoy the view.
You on the other hand can get fucked asshole.
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That’s pretty much the synopsis of the Yellowstone tv show.
I mean, there are ways to go and work there instead.
Not as many as there used to be.
No but if it’s that important to you, go and apply. Become a park ranger, become a forester. The power is yours.
There’s enough available jobs for all 8 billion of us? Awesome!
I don’t want to work in a forest. I’m fairly sure most of the 8 billion of us prefer city life even if we bitch and moan about it.
Nope, your World looks like this:
Now stop dallying and get to work.
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Walls? What company is this?
Looks a lot like the cubes at my old company. Fun Fact, as far as I know, i was the first employee to ever build a roof for my cubical. It took them months to notice because of my out of the way location…
It’s the liminal factory.
Now back to work.
People used to have more free time. But today we have graphics cards.
I don’t know that many people who can afford a graphics card anymore though.
I don’t think anyone has the time anymore to enjoy their graphic cards they already own.
Humans: “I love nature.”
Also Humans: “Let’s live and work in concrete boxes stacked into the sky!”
We’re working on 7-8billion people on this tiny little rock. We all need to be living in dense urban setups. This entitlement most of us have is ridiculous. We are straight up ruining this planet with our endless suburbs and desire to own a chunk of wilderness. As if our own enjoyment and personal appreciation is a virtue worth the destruction we wreak with our presence.
Al Gore said it best, it’s an inconvenient truth.
Just because it’s the most efficient way for all of us to live doesn’t mean it’s good for us. There are too many humans for this planet to support. We need to reduce the population ethically. Stop having kids.
I agree about the population, however Im not sure living in an apartment building is unhealthy. Or at least it doesn’t have to be. I am sure endless suburbs of detached single family housing, surrounded by seas of asphalt and treated lawns is.
If the people who lived in apartment buildings automatically co-owned the building, and landlords were illegal, then I’d be OK with it. Suburbs should be illegal. Everywhere people live should look and operate like downtowns. Healthy small businesses right below attractive apartments and all beautiful architecture.
But I also don’t think people should be prevented from living in rural, even isolated areas. Some of us simply are unsuited for it. But it shouldn’t be illegal. Only extreme wealth, landlords and owning more than, say, 3 nice houses should be illegal.
I’m with ya on not being a serf in some neo-feudal hellscape we increasingly find ourselves in. Fuck paying rent to never own anything. Fuck landlords who add zero value to anything. I’m all about the denser commercial residential mash up.
But where do you draw the line? Living rurally I mean. We have a tendency to frame these things by what’s fair to the individual. I think we ought to be asking what’s fair to the earth, the eco system, what’s fair to the generations to come? One or two people hanging in the woods isn’t a problem, but there’s 8 billion of us. In my region the suburbs don’t end. They pitter out into ever less dense housing. Everyone with a car, with miles of pavement to drive them on. Innumerable leaky septic tanks, endless lawns that leak pesticides and fertilizer. And everyone feeling it’s their inalienable right to do so, a virtue to be lauded even. We’re just a fucking disaster.
I’d challenge everyone to look inward and ask what they feel entitled to, and the price in environmental degradation they’re willing to inflict on the rest of us and future generations get it.
I think that rural living should exist and so should high density city living, so long as there are no landlords. However suburbia is the big problem. Those neighborhoods should be returned to the earth.
I’m so tired, somebody please help.
Don’t forget your copious amounts of insect repellent.
You won’t need that anymore as insects have been in a steady decline
Just find any thing that smells like mint or citrus and you’ll be fine.
I live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and spend a lot of time in the summer camping in and around our national parks (Yellowstone, Grand Teton, etc.). Often, the only thing that will do the trick is taking a bath in deet.
Deetz nutz. Gottem.
The purpose of life is to sit in a cubicle and work to destroy this for the sake of shareholder profits. It’s a very efficient system
Sacrifice more time on this planet to the global suicide machine, so you can buy toys
Ooo! I like toys
Don’t worry, we’re working on making the earth look WAY shittier so you can work your 9-5 without worrying about missing out on anything.
This. A lot of the earth doesn’t look like this. And a lot of normal jobs are actively making it worse. Like, unfortunately you don’t need to work for Nestle to be a part of that.
I’m not blaming any minimum wage worker at Amazon or retail or in factories of course. They got no choice. We live in a system where unemployment is ultimately better for the planet than a significant portion of jobs.
Looks like glacier national Park
Hahahaha get a load of this guy. He thinks he gets to retire ahahahhahaha
Until 65? Good luck with that.
Not suicidal, but if I have to work much past that I’ll consider the exit bag.
Even in countries that aren’t so dystopian yet that people are retiring at an older age than that, it’ll sure be the case by the time us millennials and zoomers retire
Yup.
Mom just retired at 70. On her feet working for society for 50 years. Now she hobbles around home with the help of a walker. She’ll spend the last 5-10 years of her life hanging out at home, with her only trips being to the doctor’s office.
Because this is all a scam to burn the lives of average people so the wealthy can live better than any kings from antiquity ever did.
And our fates will be the same, or worse, if we don’t eat these motherfuckers.
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t want to live that long. Whenever the time feels right, I want to “retire” with whatever savings I might have, and ride it out until going out on my own terms. When that time feels right, I don’t know, but it’ll come.
I’m on that mixing heroin into my daily life in my 60s retirement plan. If I make it that long. To quote AJJ, “I smoke like a fucking chimney, I declare war on my body!”
I’ll punch my ticket when I’m done.
Yeah, that nice greenery has another 15, 20 at tops.
67 for most now until they increase it again or worse, and dangling the extras if you stay until 70.
Many won’t be able to go to places like this at that point, neither physically or financially, and it might even be gone due to climate. I can think of many fixes to this system, but none work because they would go against the way things work, and the machine must keep rolling.
*Still looks like this
yes, instead of scrounging for berries when you’re 75 and dying of an infected wound from when you fell over on that mountain
What culture sent wounded elders out to forage for berries?
do you see any other houses out there? My man’s willing to forgo work (not even just capitalist work for a bastard, just work) to be out there in the wilderness.
Good luck with the bears!
meme says 9-5 until you’re 65. so i think they are specifically talking about capitalist work for a bastard. idk, I guess we’re not on the same page about what the purpose of “work” is and if survival counts as work
i think OP just wants a society that doesn’t value work for profit and doesn’t view survival as something to be meted out by an upper class based on how you please them, but maybe im projecting.
sure, but I’m emphasising “world looks like this” more. If op gets their wish, survival won’t be meted out by an upper class, it’ll be meted out by the mercy of bears and other animals, the mercy of the seasons, and the mercy of the ability of their surroundings to consistently provide them with food.
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Oh boi 🤦♂️
I’m very anti-work, but one night in that environment with no shelter and food and I’d be dreaming of an office space. That being said, there is definitely a better world somewhere between working 50-80hours a week and sleeping outside with no shelter or food.
I don’t think the post is implying a desire to live in nature, but rather expressing the inability to ever visit because of work
Yeah that’s what I gathered as well.
You’re comparing what even our ancestors before sapiens had against the modern world. How about Babylon? Or the native Americans that so many “civilized” Americans ran off into the woods to join. Survival of the fittest was absolutely a thing sure, but at the same time, look at people’s lives now, look at healthy people’s lives in Brazil’s favella, Gaza, Sudan, war zone or not. I live in the wonderful capital of Scotland yet there are people on the edges who have lives worse than a 3000bc person.
Yeah that’s kinda my point.
Why wouldn’t you have shelter or food? Emergency shelter takes an hour to build if you’ve never done that before and as long as you can tie a knot and find both woods and stone you can have a reasonably durable shelter in a week.
Food is even easier as long as you did literally any outdoors skills as a kid. While the picture suggests a landscape a bit north and a bit alpine, fish, berries, root vegetables and/or tree nuts will be available to you all year.
Take a survival and foraging course. A couple weekends of education will save your life when capitalism inevitably collapses.
I have taken a foraging course! My wife and I actually forage a small amount. But I’ve never taken a survival course. I’ll just freeze to death and I’m ok with that.
You should, at least one working with primitive shelters. Once you understand how easy it is and the relatively low maintenance requirements you’ll start getting into Bushcraft, and from there you’ll want land just to make little log-based moss covered shelters that can last for decades.
I’d love to do that someday. Maybe when my daughter is old enough to learn as well.
