18h ago

I wish...

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Turns out we have different neuro types because we need people who are good at dealing with different circumstances. Who knew ?
- People knew. Then everything started being "i need people to work in my factory/office doing the same thing again and again" and everyone had to be the same.
  Edit: Think of all the advancement in science from people that were not "normal", now they'd have just failed basic school and never had any chances to do academia. I think Einstein failed history and other subjects in a college entrance but excelled in physics and math.
  
  Marx wrote a lot about this as a criticism of capitalism. Specifically in how he defines alienation and product fetishism (seeing the economy as a relationship between products and not between people).
  The "capitalism is human nature" is complete horse shit, because even if that was true, less than one percent of the population have enough capital to actually be able to make decisions in a way that would even apply.
  There is no "human nature" in working a wage labor job. The rest of us are just doing completely alienated forms of labor with only freedom to choose which shit company to work for for a shit wage.
  I think my ADHD has really made me extremely anti capitalist since I graduated from college 10 years ago. Ive lasted long enough in a well paying position to have some savings. But im getting older. I can't hyperfocus a months worth of work in a day like I use to. And I really just don't have the motivation to either. I know my career is gonna fall apart at some point in the next decade. Just hoping I can find something else to support myself. I just can't work on a computer anymore. My body literally can't take it. I can't think anymore. Brain keeps telling me to get up and go for a walk or something. And it's not even all physical. I can sit and work on one of my personal projects still. I just give absolutely zero fuck about writing some code for a company that is literally just making the world worse every day. (Microsoft if anyone's curious).
  
  The sedentary office lifestyle is genuinely disastrous for your health, both mental and physical. It's especially insidious owing to the fact that the effects are largely invisible, just massively increasing your risk of heart disease, stroke, and cancer. That's not to say that the other extreme of constant manual labor isn't also disastrous for your health, just that I don't think the health effects of a sedentary lifestyle are taken seriously enough by institutions and people in general.
  
  Hope you find something that makes your life easier. I am about to graduate, and I'm already discouraged about finding a job as most jobs nowadays don't have direct impact.
  
  Einstein only failed those because it was at a school being taught in a language he wasn’t familiar with if I am right.
  
  Good to know, thank you. I only know them anecdotally as it's used to say "just because someone fails some exam don't discredit their intelligence".
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_versus_farmer_hypothesis

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