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[–] distantsounds@lemmy.world 46 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

is born female in Pakistan :??

North Korean: 🤷‍♂️

[–] Woozythebear@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If I take a week off of work in America I will lose everything I own and be homeless and die....

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Isn't that what freedom is all about? The choice of either slaving away or starving?

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 36 points 6 months ago

Tell that to my immune system.

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I do? So I can quit my shitty soul crushing job and everything will just be fine then?

[+] FMT99@lemmy.world -18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Depends what you want. Do you want your income to be stable and predictable and not too low? Then that's your best bet. More interesting usually comes with less stability or possibly less income to start.

[–] exanime@lemmy.today 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is a predictable income something people want or something they need?

You keep framing it as if people can just do photosynthesis and keep a house while they have no income

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I know if my income becomes any less predictable than it is now I'll be out on my ass

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

I certainly enjoy not being homeless and would like to continue not being homeless. If I can actually buy some things that aren't the absolute cheapest worst possible option as well that would also be good.

[–] Entropy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes, because there are definitely more options than waste your years trapped in wage slavery. 🙄

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

To give OP a boon, my friend's mother had a plaque with a saying along the lines of "I was born against my will and I will die against my will. So please let me at least live like I want to."

I think that's a good philosophy to approach your own life and the people you encounter.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I'm going to live like a billionaire... I am going to live like a billionaire.

Mate, you have so very little actual free-will. There's still a debate if you even have free-will at all. If it's even a thing or just a concept we came up with.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well, at least scientists have identified the hormone that is responsible for the "this was totally my own idea" feeling.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Link? That sounds really cool.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 6 months ago

Can't find it right now. If I recall correctly they could measure the "decision" happening before the action was performed.

Or maybe those are two separate studies.

[–] dog@suppo.fi 16 points 6 months ago

Sure you do buddy.

Euthanasia is totally legal and not shunned upon everywhere in the world.

[–] exanime@lemmy.today 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ehmm.... No you don't

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

Hmm. I don't know about that. Maybe certain very rich people have more freedom regarding the way they can live. I just have to do 9-5, no questions asked.

[–] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

And therefore have the right to end it whenever I feel like doing so.

[–] boredsquirrel 5 points 6 months ago

I mean there are lots of deadly poisonous plants, but legally killing yourself is hard as fuck.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

This is me trying to explain the difference between "fault" and "responsibility"

[–] Kolli@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

Posting this quote here is pearls to a swine.