this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
1501 points (98.8% liked)
Microblog Memes
7457 readers
3353 users here now
A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
Rules:
- Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
- Be nice.
- No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
- Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.
Related communities:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I'm sure you don't need me to tell you this but it isn't all rainbows and sunshine in the trades either, especially for the self employed.
When you're young it's fine but as you get older your body starts to wear out and dragging water heaters out of some crawlspace or running wire in a non air conditioned attic becomes harder.
Still, sitting for 8 hours a day a desk can be bad for you too I guess. 6 of one, half a dozen of the other.
It's pretty easy to extrapolate this to the whole concept of a full-time job being bad for you. It's not whether you're wearing out your body or your mind more, it's that modern life requires you to wear yourself out just to survive.
Our ancestors fought hard for the 40 hour workday not realizing we were just deciding the dimensions of our cage.
To be clear I am not mad at them or blame them. But it’s still true.
I absolutely love the metaphor and it succinctly express the class issue.
Stop giving them ideas.
Lmao I can’t believe I didn’t notice that
Tell me about it. I barely made it to 30 before I washed out of the film industry due to back and foot issues.