notevenreal
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No user record in our sample, but notevenreal has activity below (stories or comments). Likely we have partial data — the full bulk-load will fill profiles in.
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That doesn't always work. Maybe some people can lie to themselves that the 8+ hours they spend grinding away in some fluorescent hellhole for 40 years is fine if they can just avoid thinking about that 1/3 of their…
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The job in the story is a stand-in for "an abusive job". The point isn't to ask the reader whether or not they'd take it, the point is that it is abusive and pointless. Like, it's not posing the question "would you take…
I don't blame too many privileged tech workers who feel their soul being slowly eroded away, because working in software is one of the only decent ways to have any economic security at all anymore. Admittedly, Silicon…
>If the value created by doing that work wouldn't surpass the shittiness of doing it, the work wouldn't exist. Ah yes, because nobody has rent to pay or food to buy. This Ayn Rand-level economic analysis is a joke, and…
I don't think the solution is to try to anesthetize yourself for 50% of your waking hours. Maybe we ought to change the system.
This is a ridiculous non sequitur.
I think that's the point.
You can absolutely be depressed because of your circumstances. Put a gorilla in a small room with nothing to do for weeks and watch it become depressed. We've built a society that values all the wrong things, and then…