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Is rest even real? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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As my two week Christmas holiday comes to - a close I find myself thinking (as I always do after a longer break) back to the real world. Back to wage slavery and a chronic lack of time, not only for leisure but simple labour reproduction and household labour. A part of me is still so conditoned that I can't help but think of breaks from work as fantastical and dream like; a cruel taste of how wonderful life can be when one isn't beholden to a capitalist master. When one has time and space to breathe and be and enjoy the cosmic miracle that life even exists.

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[–] Lenins_Dumbbell@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank fuck I'm not the only one feeling this way. I spent the holidays with my family and even though we don't see eye to eye on many things, there's something so meaningful and profound in human connection that doesn't involve a transactional element.

I got back to work and my manager is already giving us unrealistic work targets that make absolutely no sense, but hey, he's an MBA.

I don't even make enough to have any substantial savings, but I live like a hermit, so I suppose I won't need too much to survive. I just want time. I want enough time to get up in the morning, make myself a cup of tea, and watch the sunrise without feeling the imminent dread.

At this point, I daily find myself hoping for a complete economic collapse just so my job ends.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If our society hadn't trained the ability to cry out of me, I would cry due to the lack of time I feel I have.

I've also found myself looking forward to a complete economic collapse. Even though it'll end up being more work, in my fantasy it at least seems more fulfilling and less alienating.

[–] Lenins_Dumbbell@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 months ago

I can relate.

It'll be more work, but istg anything is better than writing dumbfucks emails that make absolutely no difference to anyone and serve Nothing meaningful