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  • bjornsno@lemm.eetoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhen is it "enough" money?
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    14 hours ago

    Oooh look at Epicure over here, just casually getting in his 8 hours of sleep. Brag more king.

    On a serious note, the capitalists have commercialized all of this. Getting enough to eat might be doable with a meager income technically, but eating well and healthy is expensive. Getting a good bed in a nice living space that facilitates rest well costs a fortune. So you need two middle class plus jobs to afford it for yourself and your partner, which comes with its own set of stressors.

    The small things in life are also actively commercialized. A coffee with friends? Better save up for the chain cafe prices. A movie night in? Remember to pay your Netflix subscription. A hike? Gotta pay for gas to get there, depending on where you live. I’m not saying it’s impossible to have small things for free/cheap, it’s just not that easy. There’s also going to be constant social pressure, through advertisement or influencers, first or secondhand, to do all the things they tell you will make you more happy. You’ll have to actively resist that, which in turn can cause you to become distanced from your social circle.

    God forbid you get sick, the health insurance and pharmaceutical industry will fleece you and in some countries leave you with crippling debt, making all of the above out of reach for you.

    All of this to say: money isn’t just something you have to chase after for the sake of it in our current society, it’s an absolute necessity to try to have more than what you think you actually need in the moment to get by and enjoy the small things. It might sound cliche, but “society is like stacked against us, man” is actually a completely true statement.




  • While this sounds right, it is probably a path to depression. At this point I’m pretty much qualified for any web dev job I want, and I know I’d be one of the best hires they ever made, but I also know the interview gods are fickle bastards. I can easily see myself getting a string of rejections and taking a hard hit to my mental health.

    An interview is not a fair assessment of your skill and fit, it’s just the best tool we have for the job. Therefore, don’t let the outcome of interviews tell you how good you are or what you’re ready for. Imo you kinda just know these things.

    As for OP, sounds like they’re maybe still learning rule 1 of software development; the job is 90% figuring out how to do shit, it’s not actually so much about what you already know, although that certainly helps with the figuring out part. Once you’ve figured out how to figure out most of the problems that come up in your job, you’re more than ready for a new challenge, if you want one.



  • No, I didn’t say that. I’m unsure where the confusion arises so I’ll start from the beginning. And try to clarify my problem.

    1. There’s a setting that makes it so posts you’ve already read are automatically hidden. I have this turned on.
    2. There’s a setting that makes it so posts get marked as read when you scroll past them. I have this turned on as well.
    3. There’s an option in the drop-down when viewing communities that says “clear read”. This button doesn’t seem to do anything.

    Let’s take a specific community, doctor who @ lemmy.world. This community is the main reason I’m having a problem, because usually I’ll see a post on my feed from there before I watch an episode, so I want to read it later, but when I scroll past the post it gets marked as read. Now once I’ve gone and watched the episode, I’d like to go back to the community to read the post I skipped before. Of course that post is hidden, because it got marked as read when I scrolled past it. That’s when the button from point 3 seems like it should allow me to unhide the post, but it doesn’t work. I can verify that the post does still exist if I just visit that community in a web browser instead of in boost.















  • That’s a good link, the author has a bachelor’s in philosophy, so that gives it some credibility, and he is providing a nuanced summary of some philosophers’ views on individual wealth. Schopenhauer is the only one to come close to what you’re saying, and he’s famously the most depressed/depressing guy to ever have walked the earth, not that that means he should be discredited of course. As a list this in no way backs up your point about wealth on a societal level. Just because you identify with an idea that does not make it true.

    Here’s an actual research paper with statistics touching on this subject. The authors argue that local wealth coupled with large inequality may cause many people to borrow above their means, causing unhappiness.