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Chat how do I find happiness once I realize how fucked up the capitalist world is, as a 16 year old girl?????
Chat am i cooked?
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Chat how do I find happiness once I realize how fucked up the capitalist world is, as a 16 year old girl?????
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Time_Keeper
The real world is going to hit you like a truck.
RiSK
Yes, you are absolutely cooked
sewnpill
Make the best of it you can, if you can change it change it. If you can't u must create ur own paradise, ur own place of comfort
furbyz0ntheRADi0_
as an 18 year old i cope by being as silly as humanely possible. keep educating yourself, try to educate others, try learning about ways you can get involved in local activism if you can, and stay silly!! being aware, resisting, and happy at the same time is an act of resistance in itself :) keep hope that we CAN change things is the first step in changing things!
Marcel
You could try to opt out: no car, no meat, no alcohol, nicotin etc., no travel. Instead reading, lots of reading, relationships: familiy, partner, neighbour, children, helping others. Develop your intellectual and artistic skills. Take care of your health. All this and: sit down with paper and pencil and count, plan, use your brain, observe yourself, seek help, if that is necessary. Capitalism is a fiction, you have to count with. Keep a clear head and avoid the traps. Change begins with yourself.
LuciLucilia
As someone who has also had the horrors of capitalism on the mind a lot recently, I would say that its something you learn to move forward with, but to seek liberty from.
I had a period of it making me incredibly, cripplingly depressed (and I really hope thats not how it feels for you). It still makes me pretty depressed, especially when I ponder on it for too long. I try to remember though that, as monolithic and giant as capitalism feels, and to some extent is, its not the sum total of the world. There are beautiful things in the world, which though Capitalism increasing chokes them of their life, are not gone and can still be found.
Not to mention, it may be possible to move beyond capitalism, or at the very least, make capitalism more livable. So its good to stay educated on things like Capitalism, to try not to pretend they aren't real problems. Your awareness of those horrors, and peoples awareness broadly, could be what eventually liberates us from them.
Capitalism is, historically speaking, a pretty recent development. And if it hasn't been here forever, who is to say it will remain here forever?
tr4
just keep living, sometimes the life look bad but it wil be better if you keep trying, just never give up, keep fighting and trying new things, know how you can invest, dont be in dept and save money
moontiger95
Capitalism is nothing more than the name we give to sum consequences of the chaos of 8 billion peoples actions and behaviours. Corporations are a strange and unique cultural phenemenon, but people's capacity to abuse their environment and one another for short term gain is not. Unless you have intellectual or political abilities (or some specific talent) in the top 0.1% it's basically certain you can't do much about the state of the whole world. Focus on taking care of yourself, your family, you friends and community, that's what matters in the end.
I know, but I stressed myself since a while ago because I want to enjoy the present and stuff like that but how can I when I have to already worry about what I want to work to have a good life when everything is getting more expensive each day and I can't really work on my passion because if it doesn't leave money I won't be able to live a good life (Might be unrealistic but that's the way my parents raised me, like they started asking me what I wanted to do for the rest of my life since I was in 6th grade and it left me with that anxiety that still remains)
I don't know if there's a philosophy that can help me in this are tho, I like absurdims and existentialism yet I think they stress me a bit more because of the whole "capitalist world" I talk about (referring to how you live to work and work to live and it's not always something you enjoy or like) isn't not going to ask for your feelings or wait for you to decide what you want to do or give you time to adjust and sort things out, most of this once you turn 18 which is only 2 years apart from my current age so yeah, I'm stressed
by 4rambi; ; Report
If I'm honest, there probably won't ever be a time in your life where you can entirely lay aside concerns about your career and finances, not anymore than people before agriculture could lay aside concerns about how the next hunt would go, or whether they'd find food migrating elsewhere. The thing that makes it suck is that the world we live in painfully more complex, and so trying to find the best thing you can do is correspondingly more difficult.
So I can't give any general advice, but I would say that it may not be so important to concern yourself with a specific career path, but rather with developing your skills and the extent of your knowledge. The reason for this is that the kind of job you spent most of your life working in may be one you haven't even yet heard of, or perhaps one that doesn't even exist yet! Think about how quickly so many tech companies went from not existing as of 2000, to being the giants they are today.
(Even oil mining only came into existence in the 1859, and by 1869 had become an enormous industry.)
Some particular skills that will be increasingly valuable are being able to read a lot and write well, because increasingly people are going to totally ignore these skills and use ChatGPT for everything, but this will be a loss for them because someone who cannot read and write well is someone who cannot think well and knows little of the world around them.
Another idea, which I take from Paul Graham (I don't agree with most things he says, but this is a good idea), is that you should do things "staying upwind", basically, do the things that will give you the most opportunities in the future, and maximise the rate at which your skills/abilities develop. In terms of ancient wisdom, this is largely just the advice of taking the harder path, or the road less taken, with some thought as to where it might lead you. (you can see Graham's definition here: https://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html his definition is actually rather different than mine, but this is how I understood it in my life)
On an emotional level though, I think the most painful thing is simply knowing that you will have to worry about these things for the rest of your life, and the fear that the exhaustion of dealing with them will crowd out everything meaningful in your life, or at least your more ambitious dreams. All I'll say is that if you know how to use them, there are enough hours in a day to do what you must and what you want. The trick is to get rid of as many of the things that don't matter to you, or are not necessary, as you can. Taking good care of your health and career, though stressful, is necessary to make sure you have enough hours in the future to do what you want. And that time will come, although there are times when swamped with work we can't see it.
And when I find it all unbearable, looking at the clear blue sky when it comes is enough for me to keep going. That's enough for a life to be worth living, no matter what anyone says. It may not be the same for your, but I'm sure you'll have your clear blue skies, so keep your chin up.
by moontiger95; ; Report