uncompensated driving, commute times, etc
people don’t realize how much their car is costing them. IRS rate is like $0.60 a mile. running errands for work all day? 45-minute commute? yeah you’re effectively making less than minimum wage now
very difficult to get people to understand though
website and app bloat is really annoying
most corporate designers seem to think that the acceptable amount of ram usage is equal to whatever phones/computers are currently shipped with
so they don’t bother using resources on optimizing
It’s not that every psychological problem is directly due to capitalism (though many are directly or indirectly) it’s that capitalist psychology mostly cares about profitable treatments, whether they’re effective or not. I’m inclined to think some form of talk therapy or psychoanalysis may be more helpful to a lot of people than solely symptom-based treatment. But who can afford to go to therapy for years?
Even from the pharmaceutical side, we’re mostly just tweaking the mechanisms of consciousness without necessarily addressing or understanding the holistic structure, so the best we can hope for is trying various meds until one sort of works. But most of us can’t afford to spend years trying a new med every few months, with all the turbulence and uncertainty that goes along with it.
Cbt, dbt and the like are somewhat useful at treating certain symptoms, but generally fail to address root causes. And the way they’re often applied, they seem more intent on teaching people to accept their treatment under capitalism than anything.
Consciousness is complex in a way that isn’t effectively modeled by insurance-mediated healthcare and science, which overemphasizes quantitative variables in a field that’s profoundly qualitative. Not to mention the obsession with the individual, ignoring the systems that individuals exist within.
Tbh I feel like that’s more a fault of capitalism than a shortcoming unique to psychology.
lmao couldn’t be more obvious
Assuming this is coming from a lack of friendship:
Start with a pet, if possible. Then work your way up.
Getting my cat a few years ago helped take the edge off so I didn’t come off as so desperate or distant (oscillating between the two extremes).
Then slowly picked up effective habits and retrained bad habits in interacting with people. Still working on it.
If you mean you feel lonely within your existing friendships, there’s a degree to which that is “normal” or at least somewhat universal. Some philosophers would say true connection with another person is fundamentally impossible. But even if that’s the case, we can find meaning and beauty in the process of trying to achieve the unachievable. Happiness comes not from finally filling an unfillable lack (a mythical ideal), but the novelty or enjoyment of the process.
I get shitbox Toyotas for under a couple grand and run them into the ground. Whatever maintenance I can afford.
I don’t trust cars nor roads nor drivers
:michael-laugh:
Ironically I think 20 hours is about the estimate for reading it if you read 300 wpm, iirc
Of course it’s pretty dense theory so most people aren’t gonna be reading at a fiction pace. Took me a few months to get through it.
To them, mild disagreement from a few people is equivalent to doxxing, years-long harassment campaigns, and mass shootings.
This is kinda a good example of how everything filters through material class relations, until something that was radical can end up supporting the system.
A study of Christianity (and I’m sure most religions) is very interesting for this dynamic, a thousand years’ tug of war between liberatory and repressive interpretations of doctrine, each subsuming the other in different ways (usually favoring the elites).
Hello from another red state rural commie!
Oh fuck I thought the mattress was a railing
Was thinking it wasn’t too bad, as a kid I always loved those kinda loft areas in bourgeois houses, even though they’re pretty impractical
Load-bearing cube
no 3.5mm headphone jack
Whaaaat? Why?
/c/main was our shitposting comm for a while, until it was closed in a controversial mod decision
last i checked it was reopened as a joke and any post/comment without the word “main” in it gets removed
rarely anyone else
Like, the “iron fist” rule as you call it can be debated till the end of time, both the degree to which the characterization is true versus western propaganda/idealism as well as the degree to which it might be necessary to survive the omnipresent fascist and capitalist counterevolutionary movements, both external and internal.
Buuuuuut literacy rates, cost of living, infant mortality, income equality, life expectancy, gender equality, etc, these all tended to drastically improve in socialist states, compared to pre-socialism (and especially post-socialism when looking at the many states that were violently overthrown and liberalized).
international uprising
yes, and what is a post-revolution state supposed to do while waiting for the rest of the world?
So a rough estimate of 1600 kcals per pound of rice, 10 billion pounds, assuming daily intake of 2000 kcals, that’s roughly the yearly calories of about 22 million people (assuming I didn’t fuck up somewhere). To put it in perspective.
Not US business financers tho