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by WealthVsSurvive
1724 days ago
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It's called depression, not burnout. It's an evolutionary response to factors in your life that lead you towards thanatos and away from eros, allowing you the super-power of obsessive negative thought and absolute joylessness (anhedonia), so you may bide your time and fight them with the abandon of one who no longer cares about their own safety. Some choose to call it a genetic disease. I like to think of it as a valid, genetic structure that happens to have some rough edges and expresses itself too readily. |
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The only single reason we're all in this rate race is gene competition. Remove gene competition, suddenly there is not more need for constant growth, for economic growth, for countries to overwhelm other countries. For groups to fight other groups.
The real reason why we haven't dialed back on 40 working hours per week is that the first country that does it will lose an edge against the others. In the long run it means that country loses power. Maybe the other countries will then "override" it or control it. The people of said powerless country will face the fear of being at the mercy of the ones that continued on a race to growth. Our whole society is nothing but at the mercy of our genes still competing with each other. That's all there is to what we're doing. All of this is still instinct-driven. And 99% of us are blind to that.