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Most people are killing their selves with third jobs to share apartments.

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[–] PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee 52 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Freezing to death while drinking porridge?

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 61 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No, Freezing to death while drinking porridge together

[–] sirxdaemon@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

While they left Eeyore to freeze to death alone. Who's the real ass here?

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago

Poor Eeyore in his burro, no doubt muling and complaining.

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Eh, better to celebrate those who could keep up than to fret over those who couldn't.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

That's a great way to justify not putting in a wheelchair ramp

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

Remnants of the German 6th Army commiserate over the last of their rations, Stalingrad, December 1942, colorized

[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 47 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We need to stop ~~attempts to normalize~~ the system that requires grind/hustle lifestyle to exist
Most people are ~~killing their selves~~ being killed by said system, that demands third jobs and to share apartments because those at the top need another yacht.

FTFY

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Abso-fucking-lutely, this, all the way.

People aren't "work-a-holics." They ain't there because it's their dream. They're there because they need absurd amounts of money to survive in this neoliberal capitalist dystopia.

Those that say they rise and grind and love it are faking it til they make it. They'll never make it, and will fake it to the grave.

[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think both are true. I know plenty of people that take absolute undeniable pride in working 50-70 hour weeks every week and never taking a day off. It's like their life's defining characteristic.

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Some people have no lives, because theirs was taken by the system.

[–] Dimok@reddthat.com 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's bad everywhere, but what's scariest to me is the stories my girlfriend tells me about the hospitals she works in. She is a traveling radiographer and gets to visit some of the sketchier hospitals across the country. There seems to be a running theme of "we don't have enough people" and a few bootlickers enabling it with working 90+ hour weeks. Every time you see in the news where a nurse accidentally screws something up, there is a running trail of them being over worked and short staffed. They pay my gf 3-5 times what they pay their xray tech staff, AND pay her room and board, AND a huge percentage on top of that to the contract house. The ineptitude of your run of the mill hospital administration is just..scary.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I am hearing more and more stories like this that collectively add up to a very bleak picture of terminal institutional rot beneath a nanometer-thin facade

Also I live with one of those bootlickers and all their opinions are exactly as myopic, contrarian and self-aggrandizing as you would think

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

Also I live with one of those bootlickers and all their opinions are exactly as myopic, contrarian and self-aggrandizing as you would think

"I delivered a cost reduction of 21 cents per man hour to the shareholders, so my bonus is going up this year" type of thing?

[–] Veraxus@kbin.social 18 points 11 months ago

tHIs gEnerATIOn is sO LAzy, TheY JUST doN'T Want tO WorK!

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago

Don't normalize the grind. Rather normalize the unwind.

[–] sirxdaemon@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago

Pooh and gang enjoying the better grind, the coffee kind.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Normalize an 8 hour working day

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago

*4 hour Tiftfy

[–] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 8 points 11 months ago

Sounds pretty normal to me. At least for developed countries.

[–] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago
[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago

Mine is 7hr 21mins. It is too long.

[–] ExfilBravo@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

R.I.P. Piglet. They just let my boy freeze out there.

[–] aCatNamedVirtute@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] requiredusername@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Käften danskjävel

[–] kewwwi@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

hyggelig indeed

[–] sveske_juice@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

JEG ELSKER HYGGE

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago
[–] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago

Don't feed yourself into the grind, feed coffee beans into the grind and share with the homies.

[–] threeduck@aussie.zone 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Un-normalise the word normalise.

[–] Deftdrummer@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Provocative removed

[–] cryptosporidium140@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wish I knew the context of this screenshot/what episode it was

[–] RustyShackleford@literature.cafe 15 points 11 months ago

All the animals of the Hundred Acres Woods, are living in tree they’re renting from Christopher Robin.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 5 points 11 months ago

Normalise Pooh having a rough day? Sounds like grind to me!

[–] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

Grind/hustle... that's technically known as the Grustle.

[–] chitak166@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Gotta stop putting suckers and suckerism on a pedestal.

[–] eldain@feddit.nl 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Inviting friends over for tea is great, can recommend.

[–] RustyShackleford@literature.cafe 8 points 11 months ago

I do it myself each weekend, makes for a great start to the morning.

[–] Eriion@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Tea with homies

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

That looks like being poo-r with no honeys. Guess I'll have to bounce and keep on the grind.

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

We need to normalize Xi Jinping thought?

But he's a heckin' HONEY BEAR!

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

This is the Otherkin dream

[–] Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

🎵“Thank you for being a friend…” 🎶

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