• frezik@midwest.social
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    3 days ago

    Alternatively: you are having quality life experiences, do good by your friends, and engage with your community. You don’t need to compare yourself to historical overachievers.

    I have to remind myself of this constantly, because our culture won’t.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 hours ago

      the overwhelming majority of humans who have ever lived “accomplished” absolute jack diddly squat, they just spent their lives picking berries and making twine.

      compared to that we can “accomplish” miracles with a laptop and a browser, just go add some information on a niche wikipedia article and you’ve contributed more to humanity than most people could have ever dreamed of.