Stop Wasting Your Time

[Mike_L]

JazzB1987 said:

jigokutamago said:
Trying to convince people on a forum. Talk about a waste of time.

I think its more informative than it is trying to convince anyone tbh. But all in all I agree with him.

Think about how 7billion people on earth just exist without doing much of value neither for earth nor for the progress of humanity.
Then think about what could happen if only 10% of humanity would invest the same time they waste on nonsense in something of importance that can make everyones life a little bit better.

But one of the biggest problems with the world is humanity's overconsumption plundering Earth's resources (Earth has lost 50% of its wildlife in the past 40 years). If we can't sell our products we just tell people that they need them in their lives and then making those that don't own the produt stand out (e.g. dumbphones).

OP condemns hobbies and speaks of efficiency and that we should only do the necessary things but for many that means (over)working, (over)producing and (over)spending. I think we need to embrace hobbies even more than we do today and just slow down and cherish the quite moments in our life e.g. together with the closest loved ones (without having the need to share everything with a 1000 "friends" on facebook/snapchat/whatever).

We need to slow down our consumption (if every human on Earth lived and consumed like Americans we would need over 4 times the size of Earth). We are using up our biological capital rather than living on the interest and this has been going on since the mid 1980s.

So we actually need to find our Famicom from 1983 and enjoy playing Jumpman together with our loved ones. We actually need to ONLY WORK WHEN IT'S NECESSARY and if that means 3 hours a day 2 days a week so be it. We need to live like we did in the 80s where we didn't consumed more resources than Earth had in surplus.

And we need to multiply a lot less.. the animals gotta be here too!