• shneancy@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    for a week or two yes, but once the novelty of just chilling runs out you start feeling like shit

    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      People who need work always assume everyone else is like them, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar or defective person. Like morning people, or sports people.

      I would happily spend the rest of my life not working.

      • ikka@lemmy.sdf.org
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        6 months ago

        I’m pretty sure he’s talking about doing literally nothing, as opposed to not working.

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        6 months ago

        But presumably you don’t just stare at the wall. “Humans need something to do” is mainly bound to not just sitting around twiddling your thumbs. It’s the reason we get bored, the brain is annoyed at not having anything to focus on.

        It doesn’t have to be literal work, just something you find engaging, be it going for a run, tending to houseplants, or completing your entire video game backlog.

        And of course there is variation between humans. Some people cope well with having little to do, others always need to do something they find productive.

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          6 months ago

          I’m pretty sure no one at all was talking about literally doing nothing, because what a stupid scenario to even consider

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                  6 months ago

                  If anyone told that child to literally sit still and do nothing for an extended period of time, that’s some of the most abysmal parenting I can think of. I’ve literally never heard of it happening to any child except in cases of abuse.

      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        6 months ago

        but if you literally had nothing to do in your life, you would grow bored, and start doing something the human condition is to create things.

        Why do you think we industrialized?

        • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          I’m pretty sure no one at all was talking about literally doing nothing, because what a stupid scenario to even consider

          • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            6 months ago

            yeah see im confused because i thought that’s what we were already talking about, but then people started talking about it again like it wasn’t already understood.

            I did not pick up on it.

            • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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              6 months ago

              No, you guys were right. I overestimated OP, couldn’t imagine him possibly making such an inane statement. But yeah, he was literally saying that people don’t like sitting and doing absolutely nothing.