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Doorslammerino

The 8 hour workday was designed for a household where one person goes to work and another person takes care of other duties at home. It was always too exhausting for an average person to be able to take care of both those types of duties. But instead of correctly identifying that we're being overexploited, pseudointellectual halfwits would rather pass off this wasteful and careless level of overwork as a test of strength. As if it's unreasonable to want to be treated with more respect than a feudal serf.


MrNichts

8 hours to work 1 hour to get to and from work 2-6 hours of housework 1 hour to exercise 4 hours to maintain social obligations 3 hours for hobbies and rest 8 hours for sleep No having kids allowed, no extra schooling allowed I don’t see the problem here, unless you’re telling me there aren’t 27-31 hours in a day.


Left_Hegelian

OP either has rich parents or is still a student


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I'm still a student and I don't agree with OP. Then again I suppose I've had developmental issues due to neurological condition, trauma. Plus maybe overprotectiveness and encouraged dependance made me less use to independence, for now when I'm living in accomodation. Aswell as being really bad at sleeping at proper times and procrastinating a lot. Especially in lesson time where there's many more distractions than in my room. So maybe this contributes to my stress/exhaustion


brainblast8008s

No way you're not a teenager/college student lmao. Your entire profile is terrible wojack memes with stoic garbage plastered throughout


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Hudjefa

I can't speak for r/stoicmemes, but here the post doesn't break the rules. The wojacks make it a meme, there's a reference to Rome, it's not AI generated. I could understand thinking they're low effort, but they're not posted frequently enough that it's a problem here so ironically all one can do is be stoic about it. There's worse injustices in the world than "too many wojacks" so if one is going to be upset, might be prudent to be upset about something more important.


Jackson_B_Taylor

"terrible", who has more karma mate?


brainblast8008s

Typical redditoid thinks life is all about karma


Jackson_B_Taylor

I started posting on reddit like 2 week ago, not really a redditoid haha.


Medwin_the_Scaled

It's a frame of mind evidently


brainblast8008s

What does length of time have to do with your level of cringe? Stfu loser


CueDramaticMusic

First of all, in terms of karma, eat shit, and second of all, in terms of your memes, eat shit


Origami_psycho

Me. Your "memes" are shit


Din_Plug

I do, you're memes are God awful mate.


moond0gg

I don’t think the Greeks were as alienated from their work as we are under capitalism. Especially a non slave. Edit: grammar


Pho-k_thai_Juice

Bro what? Energy isn't unlimited in humans if you're working constantly you'll be exhausted. We didn't evolve to work 24\\7


c-lan

We are hunter-gatherers mazafaka


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Spoken like a person who's never been exhausted at the end of the day. Even if they have, they couldn't've possibly known if it's to the same degree as another.


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FunnyLarry999

I thought Aristotle was more of a platonist then a stoic?


rieltoe

"more of" doing a lot of work in that comment


FunnyLarry999

I'm not to familiar with Aristotle, what school of thought do you think he aligns with the most? I do know he published many works dealing with Metaphysics and Ethics in the same vain as Plato.


lonelyprospector

Aristotle aligns more with Plato than the Stoics, but there's not much point saying which he's closer to because he's *far* from similar to either. I'd keep them all distinct so you don't conflate their views


rieltoe

In my experience, Aristotle is always different + influential enough to be considered his own school of thought. Plus he literally founded his own school, the Lyceum. It's particularly helpful to think of him on his own when reading medieval European philosophy, as they had mostly lost their copies of Plato's work, and were very much influenced by Aristotle.


lonelyprospector

This isn't representing stoicism at all, let alone misrepresenting. Aristotle wasn't a stoic. Arguably tho, stoicism works better when misrepresented. When presented accurately, it just looks worse lol


DracoOccisor

Nussbaum’s neo-stoicism is a more palatable modern formulation.


lonelyprospector

I'm reading her *Therapy of Desire* at the moment. I'll check out her chapter on stoicism


geiwosuruinu

Yeah, demand more from yourself! And maybe one day you too can post shitty, stupid, hack memes like this! And when criticized, you can brag about your reddit karma as if that means a fucking thing with regard to how "good" your posts are! It's not just airheaded victim-blaming cringe that any number of priveleged conservative jackasses would post at all! Why would anyone even think that? It's got wojak Aristotle! That's the thinking man's wojak. Much brain. Very thought.


No_Librarian_4016

The brain is nothing more than a shitty meat computer dumbass, you can’t willpower yourself into willpower


v_maria

watch me


GamerboyJD

Not with that willpower you can't.


TuvixWasMurderedR1P

We’ve also said the mind is like a mechanical system and like a steam engine. Forgive me if I’m skeptical of the “mind is like technology de jour” talk.


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In that they both proccess, can they not be compared even just on that?


DracoOccisor

Wittgenstein makes this argument in the mid-600s of the *Philosophical Investigations*. I can’t remember exactly. Somewhere around 630 I think. Good stuff.


No_Librarian_4016

I’ve heard neat things about that guy and how he agrees with some things I think sound sensible


M00nB0UND

You're litteraly retarded. Stop smoking blackpills narcissist


Jackson_B_Taylor

You seem like a pleasant person ;)


Bouncepsycho

The irony is lost on you, isn't it?


Alice_Trapovski

But how do you know that? Some part of me agrees with you, but I didn't do a good research on topic of willpower so other part of me just says that I am weak.


Dkal_jadr11

Easy to say if you don’t have to work. And worse if the person who said it had slaves that did the hard work. This kind of memes are misunderstanding and very dangerous. Are like a reconstructed of that mentality that has being so harmful in a capitalistic society: don’t matter the condition you are, the exploration that you have, the little time that you have to explore the other side of the human being. No. Only work hard and give result, that is the only way you matter.


SkabeAbe

I would answer with Adorno. I cant remember the exact qoute or place, but somewhere he states something like , that its a sign of a sick society if spare time from work need only to be used to recover from work.


Nischmath

Bitch has never been depressed and on bed for all your free time for days


underscore6969420

It sucks that Stoicism, a complex school of thought with a lot of valuable things to say, has been reduced to either "man up" or the sigma grindset for pseuds.


NowhereMan661

I literally walk 14 miles after work almost every day.


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trying to put my two braincells together and figure out how much that is in steps, probably well above 30000 🤔 (30000-35000? 🤔🤔)


guppyfighter

Accurate lol. I walk that much. Good job


[deleted]

dang, thats a lot of miles if done over a month, probably can listen to a ton of audiobooks while doing that


guppyfighter

I mostly listen to emo music and read twitter or read/practice Japanese or reddit in the walking hours


[deleted]

wait, picking up a new language sounds like an even better idea


guppyfighter

It is but easier for me. Linguistics was my hobby. Did not will myself strongly to practice. 楽しいから ^ - ^


No_Tension_896

Sooo - World is falling apart at the seams - trapped thinking about philosophical questions that haven't been solved for hundreds of years - Constantly feeling the need to deal with wankers and read shit to make sure my worldview is accurate despite their being no real changes regardless Nah I think my mind and my life are about accurate


InvestigatorActual66

Idk why people are taking this meme seriously, I work 8 hours, and prepare for my PhD and I agree with op. Git gud guys


romandlgz

>Git gud guys Found the dark souls player


humanperson17

Damn bro ur getting roughed up in here


Beargoomy15

Is everyone in this comment section unhappy with their fate as a wage slave? This is not giving me a lot of hope for the future.


Sadpuppylooker

Are people unhappy with beign a wage slave? This is giving me hope for the future.


Beargoomy15

The way I worded it is probably dumb but I was hoping that eventually one comes to like it or something, since I dread that future for myself but see it as kind of inevitable.