Imagine itβs Sunday morning. You were allowed to sleep in as long as you want, with no chores or responsibilities. Itβs raining outside, and your mum makes a stack of pancakes and serves you breakfast in bed. But youβre almost three, so youβre blind with rage.
Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants a robot butler. Nobody wants data centers everywhere. Nobody wants flying cars or humanoid robots. We want clean water, we want bees to survive, and we want a habitable planet.
I donβt think people understand how much society depends on the labour of the least appreciated professions. If sewage technicians and sanitation workers disappeared today, cities would quickly become unlivable. We underestimate how fast diseases can destroy a community.
βNo one is forcing you to work at that job you hate.β
Rent is due, health insurance is tied to employment, groceries arenβt free. Utilities will get cut off, student loans donβt pause, and homelessness is one bad month away. Yeah, yeah. Totally voluntary.
Youβd be surprised how many people leave work, go home, eat, shut the door, scroll on their phone until they fall asleep, and enjoy their little world. Thatβs it. Thatβs their life.
Somewhere in a war-torn country, there is a boy smarter than me, more disciplined, resilient, and with more potential than I have. My burnout is a luxury he cannot afford; his only goal is to make it through another day. The only difference between us is geographical luck.
I saw a post on Tumblr that said, βThe idealized future version of myself cannot exist without my current self being the catalyst for change and doing hard things,β and it stuck with me.
Yes, a cashier at Walmart, a delivery driver at Amazon, or a waiter at KFC, should be able to afford rent, groceries, and bills with their paycheck alone. That is exactly what jobs are for.
My frontal lobe fully developed, and I realized that working a 9 to 5 job five days a week until I am 60 just so I can βenjoyβ a few years when I am close to death is the worst idea I have ever seriously considered.
It's annoying that Google knows my home address, Wi-Fi password, browsing history, all my contacts, and even my location history, yet it has spent the last 25 years asking if Iβm a robot. You are the robot.
If I had a trillion dollars, you couldnβt pay me to keep it. It would be raining money everywhere it was needed. Need a house? Done. Student debt? Gone. Canβt afford your medication? Iβve got you. There wouldnβt be a hungry person in sight.
I saw a post on Reddit that said that βThe underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.β And I donβt think Iβve ever seen AI described so incisively.
Thereβs literally a childrenβs board game whose whole premise is showing how free market capitalism ends with one person owning everything while everyone else goes bankrupt.
Something feels very, very off and disturbing about the pace of these data centres. It feels coordinated and all for a related purpose, and not a good one.
The minimum wage should be set at a level that, if you work 40 hours per week, you can afford housing, healthcare, and groceries, no matter the job you are doing. And that is not a radical belief.
I highly recommend owning a cat because it makes every bad feeling a little easier to deal with. It's hard to feel the full weight of life's problems when a little weirdo is sprinting around your house like it's training for the Olympics.