yes haha

I’m just pointing out that people have had to work in some capacity to live all throughout history. People would still need to work to live under any system.

Nobody said otherwise.

… the title in OP asked, “why do we live to work, rather than work to live?”

The response was “capitalism.”

So: precisely under (not-capitalism)… we could “work to live,” rather than “live to work.”

The same reason a bad person constantly talks about how they are a good person

A lot of the current health craze is related to the effects and aftermath of the covid pandemic.

Also I believe that the more people lose control of their lives and feel like society is in a downward spiral, the more they will try to hold on in the few ways that remain. What is one of those few ways: their own personal health and fitness. Not to mention that the gym is one of the only high profile “social”/shared spaces that remain, that are not just about shopping.

Some things are true simultaneously here:

• “Standard American diet” is very bad
• The protein recommendations coming out of health/fitness circles have been largely overblown, and are related to a fairly recent new marketing push

The problem with the SAD isn’t necessarily a lack of protein, although cutting out a lot of garbage food and replacing it with healthier food would in many cases increase protein intake (but not necessarily by * that *much)

You can’t exist in a solely ideological paradigm. You have to be pragmatic while working towards bending the world towards something better.

I am simply arguing that advertisements have a bad effect on society and our everyday lives. If more people cared, more could be done about it, instead of most people being unaware and/or delusional of its subconcious effects, and doing nothing about it.

You think the cookie business advertisements are no problem. I disagree, even though I ultimately believe there are much bigger problems (of course…) - This advertisement is manipulative nonsense, like the vast majority of them, and the business or the product etc. is not a cute little innocent thing.

Maybe most people are not angry enough (or aware enough) about how deceptive, manipulative, continuously invasive, and disturbing to our daily lives advertisements are. Don’t let off some business because their advertisement is “cute.” They just want you to buy their shit.

Exactly. Every company is utterly bullshitting us, even the “mom n pop cookie companies”

no it’s good

I don’t enjoy every company pretending to be super cute and trigger our buttons to sell its most likely bullshit ass product which is “honestly” most likely totally unrelated to the advertisement they are pushing in our face

“charming” ads

“We thought building a cardboard airline in a treehouse sounded more honest.”

I don’t think they know what “honest” means

Here’s the problem, for this to happen, we would first have to reorganize the economy/politics/society. Everything has turned to total shit because we live in a global capitalist plutocracy. Nothing is gonna get much better under that

Like, if they don’t have cell service when we go camping, they are just super agitated like they’ve lost their sense of smell or something.

LMAO

Me mfw when I’m a millennial laughing and also sympathizing at the GenZers’ inability to exist in the world without electronic devices and high speed bips and boops

I just started watching some anime and was thinking about this!

I watched a few different series in English, dubbed, and they seemed good… then I tried another “classic” dubbed in English (Attack on Titan) and I didn’t like it. I had a gut feeling that it would be better w/ Japanese and subtitles, so I decided to try it, and it was almost a different show… much better. Not only did the voices make more sense, the words are very different, almost completely different on some occasions.

I’m scared to rewatch the shows in Japanese that I already watched in English, haha.

I totally understand about not wanting to read subtitles, I don’t necessarily want to, either, but it can completely change the show and be the difference between it being good and not good… not to mention the creators’ original intentions…

This one was so disappointing :(

This describes like all the batman villains

Has anyone said this yet? Every U.S. city

AI bots are doing what the advertising industry has honed into a science, manipulating people in a sneaky as fuck way in order to farm money from them infinitely

I see Alexa is on the LG TV, and there’s a way to turn it off in settings, but is it actually truly off when you do this (do u know)? lmao