I certainly enjoy not being homeless and would like to continue not being homeless. If I can actually buy some things that aren't the absolute cheapest worst possible option as well that would also be good.
To give OP a boon, my friend's mother had a plaque with a saying along the lines of "I was born against my will and I will die against my will. So please let me at least live like I want to."
I think that's a good philosophy to approach your own life and the people you encounter.
I'm going to live like a billionaire... I am going to live like a billionaire.
Mate, you have so very little actual free-will. There's still a debate if you even have free-will at all. If it's even a thing or just a concept we came up with.
Hmm. I don't know about that. Maybe certain very rich people have more freedom regarding the way they can live. I just have to do 9-5, no questions asked.
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distantsounds@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 2y
is born female in Pakistan :??
North Korean: 🤷♂️
Woozythebear@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y
If I take a week off of work in America I will lose everything I own and be homeless and die....
Jumi@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
Isn't that what freedom is all about? The choice of either slaving away or starving?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 36 pts · 2y
Tell that to my immune system.
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 2y
I do? So I can quit my shitty soul crushing job and everything will just be fine then?
FMT99@lemmy.world · -18 pts · 2y
exanime@lemmy.today · 19 pts · 2y
Is a predictable income something people want or something they need?
You keep framing it as if people can just do photosynthesis and keep a house while they have no income
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
I know if my income becomes any less predictable than it is now I'll be out on my ass
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
I certainly enjoy not being homeless and would like to continue not being homeless. If I can actually buy some things that aren't the absolute cheapest worst possible option as well that would also be good.
Entropy@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 27 pts · 2y
Yes, because there are definitely more options than waste your years trapped in wage slavery. 🙄
FMT99@lemmy.world · -15 pts · 2y
shani66@ani.social · 2 pts · 2y
Are you suggesting bank robbery? Because it's a fluke those guys got away with it.
Or did they get caught already? I haven't kept up.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 24 pts · 2y
To give OP a boon, my friend's mother had a plaque with a saying along the lines of "I was born against my will and I will die against my will. So please let me at least live like I want to."
I think that's a good philosophy to approach your own life and the people you encounter.
TehBamski@lemmy.world · -9 pts · 2y
I liked the quote until I started to think of the negative parameters of such a saying. It comes down to who is saying it < their intention.
'I was born against my will and I will die against my will. So please let me at least live like I want to.' - Ted Bundy
v.s.
'I was born against my will and I will die against my will. So please let me at least live like I want to.' - Betty White
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 7 pts · 2y
Well, to come back to your post they chose to live like that to a degree. I guess for themselves it was nice.
aniki@lemm.ee · 20 pts · 2y
I'm going to live like a billionaire... I am going to live like a billionaire.
Mate, you have so very little actual free-will. There's still a debate if you even have free-will at all. If it's even a thing or just a concept we came up with.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 7 pts · 2y
Well, at least scientists have identified the hormone that is responsible for the "this was totally my own idea" feeling.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Link? That sounds really cool.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 2 pts · 2y
Can't find it right now. If I recall correctly they could measure the "decision" happening before the action was performed.
Or maybe those are two separate studies.
dog@suppo.fi · 16 pts · 2y
Sure you do buddy.
Euthanasia is totally legal and not shunned upon everywhere in the world.
exanime@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 2y
Ehmm.... No you don't
FiskFisk33@startrek.website · -2 pts · 2y
exanime@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 2y
When the consequences are homelessness, starvation, disease, imprisonment, etc... you really had no choice
Let's stop pretending people could choose whatever they want in our society and still live a dignified life
GiddyGap@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y
Hmm. I don't know about that. Maybe certain very rich people have more freedom regarding the way they can live. I just have to do 9-5, no questions asked.
SomeGuy69@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
And therefore have the right to end it whenever I feel like doing so.
boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 2y
I mean there are lots of deadly poisonous plants, but legally killing yourself is hard as fuck.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
This is me trying to explain the difference between "fault" and "responsibility"
Kolli@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 2y
Posting this quote here is pearls to a swine.