Alright. When you’re ready, boredsocial can handle the shipping.
I’m going to sub out a lot of work to Johnny. I hear he has a bunch of routers collecting dust.
1 Like
I doubt their “crap” job gives them meaning. If so it wouldn’t be a “crap” job.
I mean I have worked with people who give back vacation time… crazy mofos. There was this one janitor I worked with who just retired and the joke was without work how long do you think he will live. The answer was not long. I’ve known some that could afford to retire but kept working. Some people live to work even in crap jobs.
It’s not some profound philosophical meaning, it’s just having something to do with some sort of external structure. There are an awful lot of people who are incapable of filling their days when left to their own devices.
Why does this conversation always happen for UBI discussions? Are these workaholics not going to be able to work?
2 Likes
The majority of people I know that could afford to retire but don’t are not working construction. They either own their business or work an office job that may require a couple hour shifts of actual work a day and the rest is just showing up to an office to dick around and socialize.
Edit: it’s also not the person UBI is helping.
1 Like
My mother suffered extreme depression when she left her work and I encouraged her to do so, because she worked from age 14 full time until 65.
She also done voluntary work and I suggested she do more of that when she retired which she did for about 2 months then her brain melted.
Fortunately My aunt/Her sister retired last year and now both of them are living a normal retiree life going as many holidays as possible and visiting as much as possible to family and friends.
Atm she is not back to her volunteering yet, but might in the future.
I feel bad but don’t because she deserves her pension and time to do what she wants, I just didn’t realise that she wanted to keep working and feeling a part of the system. Alough it was a very low paid job she got satisfaction from it.
Anyways it caused a split between us and even now she still not the same towards me.
Would I change my position if I knew? Tbh I don’t think so as she needed a break and time to get herself fit and healthy which she is now, she also has far less hospital visits nowadays and does not complain to much about things nowadays… And hass actually started to enjoy life again through hard work by the family we finally got her there.
It was tough and I wouldn’t advise anyone ever again to do the same but when it’s you’re mother her heath comes 1st and we believed that we were encouraging her to do the right thing.
It takes time to adjust to a new normal and takes a lot of effort, if I could go back to when my mum was retiring I’d make her goto college or something straight after retirement or help in setting up a routine for her that makes her feel like it has a purpose.
Lessons learned I suppose.
Incidently My dad makes cabinets/Radiator covers and chairs in his spare time from old wood he finds around the area.
Btw My dad’s are better made than this… 
4 Likes
Sorry for derailing the thread to UBI but that article was literally one of the worst critiques of UBI I’ve ever seen.
I refuse to believe that’s a real photograph. It’s an idealized pastiche of cliches turned up to 11. It’s like a Thomas Kinkade view of the rural south.
Make that Norman Rockwell. Kinkade never painted people.
Remember that work is a curse from God for being too curious and naughty, and not an inherent virtue, heathens
1 Like
It’s colorized - which gives it that weird look.
It’s been my experience that the South basically lives up to every popular stereotype that’s out there.
Has anybody ever seen a production of Shakespeare set in the American South with actors doing southern accents? Sometimes when I’m driving I recite the famous parts of MacBeth in the style of a Southern Gentleman and usually crack myself up when I get to saaawnd and fyooreeh signifyin’ nothin’
Was working at a bowling alley one time that had a late seventy or maybe eighty year old maintenance man. Dude was impressive still climbing ladders and doing all kinds of stuff at that age. Mostly though time wise he did the above. Drank coffee and shot the shit. He had an army pension and one from another job so no need to work.
I dont know how many people there are like that out there but they do exist.
1 Like
Are they trying to brake us in and get us ready? You know nothing would surprise me at this point…trumps going to meet them on the white house lawn to boost his approval rating and secure the election…