Too bad the majority of them require disposable income.
That’s why it says “luxuries”
Some of these should be considered fundamental basics or rights, and not “luxuries”.
How is this a shitpost
Shit, I don’t have any of those.
I’ve turned into a fairly materialistic person after starting a family, which kinda goes against this list, but I promise I have a point.
I’ve now started valuing my time in money, quite explicitly. Let’s say an hour of my time is worth roughly 50 euros. I can make more money by doing more work, I’m not limited to 40 hours a week when feeling productive, nor am I required to fulfill 40 hours a week when I have a bad case of executive dysfunction. So any time I’m out running errands, it technically IS costing me this much money.
If I have the option to spend X hours doing something, I’m going to ask myself if it’s worth it being X * 50 euros poorer for this. Spending time with friends or family? Absolutely worth it. Going on a walk to clear my mind? Still worth it. Drive around a bunch of drunk people for money? Nope, because nobody is going to be paying me enough to make it worth my while and it’s not an activity I enjoy doing very often.
I’ll make a similar calculation for spending money to gain more free time. If I’m working on my car and something is going to take me 10 hours, but my shade-tree mechanic 3 hours @ 35 euros an hour on his lift… Yeah, I’m going to pay him and hang around while he’s doing it. I just bought 7 hours of free time (so 350 euros) for 105 euros.
That does NOT mean that when I make the calculation that I’m going to always actually use the saved time for work right away. I might just hang around at home, take the baby for a spin in the stroller, listen to podcast I enjoy… Hell, maybe I’ll take a long ass bath. This is just a way to get myself thinking “hey, my time is worth too much to be doing this”, because in the past I rarely said “No” to anyone who wanted me to do anything, and also I’d spend lots of time on anything that could save me a minuscule amount of money.
Real talk. I cried reading this. They’re such simply things and it’s the first thing they want to take.
I don’t see ‘books telling tales of my conquests bound in the skin of my vanquished enemies’ on that list.
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Wait, this isn’t a shitpost
It’s something most of us cannot afford to achieve, probably.
Hey, you’re right! Why aren’t the mods executing OP!?
“Calm and boring days” is definitely underrated. When you’re an adult with daily responsibilities, it’s almost impossible to have an extended period, let alone an entire day, where there is nothing that comes up that needs to be done.
It’s so huge not only for rest but creativity and mental housekeeping.
Amen to that Brother Reverend! I love when there is nothing to do. It is so liberating. But after a day or two I start to feel guilty I’m not being a productive member of society.
Unfortunately, you do need money for like 2/3rds of those
And people for the other 1/3.
And how do you buy people if not with money
where are you buying your people?
Let’s just say it isn’t as easy as it used to be
Just go to Dubai, they’ll get you all sorted out.
Yeah I had thought that it was (probably, in some ways or places) easier than it had ever been before with the internet and rampant unchecked capitalism. but history has many vicious twists and dark moments not recounted through time and people have almost certainly been much cheaper or sold in far greater numbers into slavery in prior centuries. so maybe we are continuing to soften up as a world shaping apex species and gradually becoming more considerate towards one another as our concept of a “tribe” or “in-group” continues to widen.
Money isn’t everything but with no money at all, there isn’t much left
You don’t win life because you have more toys than the other guy
But you do lose for not being able to afford bare necessities
you know nothing of loss if that is your baseline
edit to clarify: if this is your take of the image above, you live a privileged life
That’s not my take on the image above, that’s my response to OP’s comment. But feel free to take that out of context if it helps you sleep at night
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Did you literally just use “there are fates worse than death” as some kind of comeback to someone saying that not being able afford necessities leads to “losing” (death), as a way to argue that a society that allows this should be improved?
What are you saying? That people not being able to feed and/or house themselves is fine, because there are worse kinds of “loss”?
What the fuck is point of “one-upmanship” around the baseline of suffering? And how is “people not dying” not a pretty good place to start when it comes to what society should try to achieve?
you took my sentence and turned it into a novel
good job, almost like chatgpt
having been penny less and homeless with my family and surviving because it’s what my family does, has always done.
I have heard stories of life from my cousins who were born in Pine Ridge SD (look it up)
they are poor and hungry but I have explained my baseline of losing and being poor. What is your baseline?
What? What the hell do you even mean by “baseline”?
Again, what are you saying? You replied adversarially to someone who was making the point that society should be improved so as to not allow things like people starving to death, or becoming homeless. Are you agreeing with them or trying to shut them down?
Are you saying society barely doing anything to help people in such situations is fine, because you survived it? Because that is what it seems like, and my reply is in response to such an utterly insane take.
Society should prevent death and suffering as much as the available resources allow. Who the fuck cares where you draw the line for “good enough”?
If we can do better, then we should.
That’s almost as poetic as it is meaningless
Some money yes, but an average salary should work for all of them, no?
“Average” is a vague definition
neither vague nor a definition
average is the sum of a list of values divided by the size of the list.
No. If you’re going to be pedantic, at least be right.
Average
noun
- a number expressing the central or typical value in a set of data, in particular the mode, median, or (most commonly) the mean, which is calculated by dividing the sum of the values in the set by their number.
The term average, inherently refers to at least three different ways to calculate the central value in a data set. What you’re talking about is mean, but it can also mean mode, or median, and there are other, even, more complicated calculations than those depending on your context.
So yes, average, is an inherently vague and hard to define term.
Idk, generally people mean the mean by average and the median by median, but I get your point. (But I think the term average salary can be ambiguous for other reasons, not disagreeing there.)
Average salary (that is, the mean) isn’t that good of a metric even if you account for region, industry and so on, because just one outlier can easily skew your entire statistics. Median is much more useful in that regard.
Source: me, someone who writes tools for processing and gathering large amounts of confidential employee data, including salaries of wide range of companies across multiple countries.
youre right, i take it back
Well, if you look at the average salary across the whole world, an overwhelming majority of people doesn’t make enough money to survive, so there’s that
I was under the impression mean and average were used interchangeably, but I’m not a native speaker.
What I meant was mean salary indeed. But median would probably be more adequate.
ooh look at you, so smart!
ohoho, thankyou ☺️
Not in America
For what of the list?
It also depends on the definition of each, but I mean in a basic sense.
Bro this isn’t funny. Give me back my luxuries right now
One that a lot of us take for granted is being able to breathe easily.
or control when and where we go to the bathroom.
I’d not only day ability to travel but ability to follow any passion. Setting the world, making art, opening a store, whatever makes you do b something you just love doing just for the activity itself.
Money and bitches
Since the beginning of time every honest male would give this answer
The “slow mornings” one is my favorite.
For me “slow mornings” means I get to take my time as I poop, shower, and then enjoy a cup of coffee in absolute silence. Before my day is ruined by my kids fighting or asking me for things.
I bet having kids is an amazing experience but my partner and I are not having kids and we’re getting older, so “slow mornings” means we wake up, go back to sleep, get up at noon, have some kratom, shit, order breakfast sammiches, and lay in bed watching random stuff until dinner.
Basically most weekends.
Fucking dream. Could take or leave the kratom but i respect it.
That’s fair, hahaha. Almost every weekend day is like this for us, ever since COVID started (not always the kratom, but it does help us shit). I do not take it for granted one single day. Just lazy bed days, surrounded by cats, using a wireless keyboard to put on whatever media sounds good at the time.
With any luck I’ll have this summer to hang out on the porch of my cheap trasheap of a house in the woods and just fuck off for a good majority of it XD. Lots of projects and some gardening to do but all that can be done on my own time 😁
COVID/2020 sent me the opposite direction. Things just picked up and got worse over time. Been spending the last three years digging out of that hole.
The payback is knowing that one day their kids will do the same to them, right ;)
Yeah, I’ve got one maybe two of that list. FML
Just a few weeks left for me. I haven’t really had any more than 2 of these in a decade…
I’m rocking five of them at least so, I hope you get here.
