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[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago (8 children)

prioritize my life over my work

And holy shit do I get shamed for it.

Don't you care about the company or moving up in the organization?

Fuck no. I care about paying off my insane mortgage, keeping the lights on and having time to do what the fuck I want.

[–] Skies5394@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

lol exactly.

I want to show up, do work, get paid, be left alone.

I’ll do really good work, and take pride it in because that’s just who I am, but I don’t want to do overtime, I don’t want to go above and beyond for the company, I don’t want to play office politics, I don’t want to jockey for higher roles. None of it.

Show up, get paid.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I don’t want to do overtime, I don’t want to go above and beyond for the company, I don’t want to play office politics, I don’t want to jockey for higher roles. None of it.

Because doing those things is no different than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

This ship floating among the stars is going to go down in a very bad way during the next 15-35 years. We are going to see the planetary ecosystem collapse, with devastating effects to the human population. There are some very conservative estimates by climate scientists working together with demographers and climate-aware economists that are suggesting that mass famines trigger cascading infrastructure collapses throughout our civilization by the 2040s, with a commensurate drop in human population of at least 40%, and up to an 80-95% drop by 2070.

Populations don’t experience overshoot-related drops of that magnitude without running a very real risk of total extinction. It may take another century beyond 2070 to finish us off, as small populations are bound to linger on in the remaining habitable regions near our poles, but I would be very shocked if humanity still existed in the year 2200.

[–] jadero@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On the one hand, I think you need to put trigger warnings on that shit.

On the other, part of me is pissed that, at 67, I might not live long enough to say "I fucking told you so!" to all the idiots around me and have it mean anything.

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