• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    35·
    6 months ago

    Yes…but there is such a thing as a work addict. My father is in his eighties, hasn’t had to work in decades, but still works like more than forty hours a week. I have no doubt that if he stopped, he’d be dead within the year.

    My wife is also a workaholic but she’s the equivalent to the alcoholic that wants to stop drinking but cannot. She just can’t help herself to the point that she’ll turn her own leisure time into a job.

    I used to be the same but heart surgery and cancer cured me of that bullshit.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
      11·
      6 months ago

      Sorry to hear about your health problems, but happy you were able to switch off as a result.

  • chemicalprophet@lemm.ee
    29·
    6 months ago

    I was with the post until the end. Both workaholism and the coercion of capitalism are real, they shouldn’t be conflated.

      • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
        26·
        6 months ago

        No. No. They’re right. When even Forbes reports that nearly 30% of people can’t afford their normal expenses and a further 40% living paycheck to paycheck, it’s a systemic issue. Payroll.org’s numbers from 2023 put the paycheck to paycheck at 78%.

        Sure some of those are poor spending habits but, to brush it off as that is wishful thinking. Could blame it on neoliberalism but, people have been coerced into making the wealthy even more money in order to survive since long before that. Not having a home is illegal. Every bit of land on the plant is considered owned, whether occupied or not, so, there is no option to opt-out and refuse to participate while alive and free.

          • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
            7·
            6 months ago

            What is the point of your question? It’s based on a completely useless, asinine observation. I guess what I’m asking is, are you trying to start shit or are you profoundly dim?

            • Mammothmothman@lemmy.ca
              1·
              6 months ago

              Im just pissed off at all this high minded gobshite about how capitalism is the source of all evil and immediately jumping into this fantasy of a perfect anrchism without any conceptualization of how to get from A to B. Not to mention that my “tankie” comment was sarcastic satire of lemmy comment sections whenever captialism is mentioned.

          • chemicalprophet@lemm.ee
            4·
            6 months ago

            Someone who thinks we need a militaristic (i.e. tanks) installation of a communist regime.

            Edit: clarity

            • SoleInvictus
              5·
              6 months ago

              Although people on Lemmy, especially .world, seem to be increasingly using it like American conservatives use “woke”, to describe anyone they don’t like. On the bright side, also like the usage of woke, it’s typically a sign the person using it is an idiot and doesn’t have anything worth listening to.

              • twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                6·
                6 months ago

                It is an unfortunate thing, because tankies are actually a problem. And I do mean the real term, as in the folks who identify with dictatorships that are so-called communist.

                The reason it’s a problem is that the folks who are left-leaning but uneducated sometimes get swept up in pro-authoritarian rhetoric that happens to oppose the west. I’m anticapitalist, leftist, etc. I see tankies and fascists having a lot in common. That seems dangerous in the sense that fascism is a real threat. Also, then, our ranks are being thinned out and co-opted by specific bad-faith actors. At the same time, when people buy into tankie (pro-Russia, pro-China, pro-North Korea) propaganda, this more or less consolidates some of the power that opposes actual leftists (as in, people who support human rights, equitable societies, environmental protection, etc).

                Not really any argument against what you’re saying. Just kind of adding that the term tankie is actually useful to describe a specific viewpoint, but obviously not in the way that the previous commenter used it.

                • SoleInvictus
                  3·
                  6 months ago

                  I agree completely, thanks for adding some important context.

              • xenoclast@lemmy.world
                3·
                6 months ago

                That seems to be the function I see it used the most.

                And yes, I do find it’s a good indicator that they aren’t very bright, or at least don’t want to engage in constructive conversations.

                Thanks all for letting me be the ‘lucky’ 10,000

              • chemicalprophet@lemm.ee
                2·
                6 months ago

                Yeah. That was obviously how it was used against me. I’m interested in good faith digression but your right, it’s a sign that it won’t be and your time would be wasted.

  • Dorkyd68@lemmy.world
    12·
    6 months ago

    I hate eating and love grinding. God I grindso fucking hard they call me Tony hawk at work cause of all the the grinding I do. Living in a nice home and doing things you like is gay and lame. The woke loser libs want you to think we should have free time for things that make us happy so we can enjoy life. Pfft, ya know what I say? GRIND! FAMILY? NO TIME OR MONEY for that, GRIND! HOLIDAY? THATS GAY! GRIND HARDERRRRR! NIGHT WITH FRIENDS??? NAH NERD GRIIIIIIIINNNNNDDDD

  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
    7·
    6 months ago

    Listen. All you need too do is have a near death inhabitating health emergency and you can retire in your forties and then maybe live another twentry-forty years on a fixed income.

    Shits simple dog.

  • Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca
    6·
    6 months ago

    I worked so hard for so long that I’m like this and it’s awful.

    When I get time off, I don’t know what to do with myself. Right now I have a full time night/ weekend job and I’m attending university with 5 courses. This summer I’m considering picking up another job because I won’t know what to do with myself.