u/Therapyclassroom107

People as hunter gatherers and peasants used to work more, but the work was slow and easy. Not physically but in terms of brain power.

They worked at their own pace - had extended siestas during the work day and no commute.

Now work is hectic. You have to fulfill the quota.

You have to work the entire 8 hours. No siesta.

You have to think all the time using brain power.

You have to commute.

You have to deal with toxic bosses and colleagues.

You have to work no matter how the weather is.

And even just 100 years ago, there were not 1000 possibilities you could do instead work but more like 10.

So why not work when there is not much to do besides it?

But now you know about 1000 other fun things you could be doing instead working, making work 1000x harder.

Aufgrund des Iran Krieges kam ein Aufruf zum Ressourcen sparen. Reisen mit dem Auto reduzieren, Benzin sparen und so. Niemand tut es. Flugzeuge fliegen weiterhin. Die Busse karren Touristen aus dem Ausland an.

Bekannte fahren nach wie vor jede Woche 70 Km (hin+her) um Verwandte zu besuchen. Andere die in Wien wohnen, haben mir erzählt, dass sie am Wochenende mal einen Ausflug in die Steiermark gemacht haben.

Jo - niemand will verzichten. Wenn sich der Iran Krieg verschärft und es mal tatsächlich Knappheiten gibt, dass will ich mir garnicht vorstellen wie es dann mit dem Egoismus vieler wird.

Und ich hab nicht mal ein Auto. Spare ich schon mehr als ca. 2/3 der Bevölkerung die ein Auto haben.

Some time ago I saw a girl on youtube or Tiktok who claimed to have read 541 books last year. She bragged about how awesome she was and was super salty towards everyone who was skeptical.

I found out that this is a trend that supposedly started aroud 2020 when everyone was locked at home during COVID.

By now, the various book subreddits are full of people who claim to read impossible numbers of books. Like 300 or 400 or 500 in a year. The sky is the limit. So is YouTube and tiktok. Social Media is full of these reading challenges

Of course all besides their job. And of course reading does not take all their time and they have lots of time for other activities. And of course everyone is a "very fast reader" or listens to Audiobooks at 2x speed all the time, no problem. And takes in 100% despite multitasking. And everyone could probably do more if they really tried. And all of them have ample time to spend hours on social media to brag about it.

Its just so bizarre. Because these claims are obvious exaggerations.

The only way I could see someone reaching anywhere close to these numbers is when they are unemployed/retired and invest like 99% of their free time into reading. Doing nothing else with their life.

Or if its bascially their job to read.

Or if all they read are 50 - 150 page childrens books/light dreck novels or even mangas/comics/graphic novels exclusively to reach these numbers.

Or if they listen to Audiobooks at 2x speed all the time while multitasking as background noise and dont even take in half the content.

But whats the point in that? Reading 25 short light/crime/romance/manags/comics every month just so that you can brag how many "books" one read sounds miserable to me. Listening to a voice at 2x speed reading to you like 5-10 hours every day sounds miserable as well.

Its just reeks of hypocrisy and outright lies when someone claims to have read 310 books last year and of those:

50 were mangas - 50 comics - 50 graphic novels - 50 YA/E Novellas/light novels with like 50-100 pages - 100 A-Books they listened to at 2x speed while multitasking as background noise, taking in less than half the content - and 10 actual books.

Sure there are a few outliers who can do this and do it. But we are talking about perhaps a few hundred people on the planet. And these dont have time to spend hours on social media to brag about it.

All the CEOs and Managers who claim to work like 80 or 90 hours a week. All they do is reading reports, making decisions, directing the real actual work to someone else and attend business meetings. Its easy to "work" 80-90 hours if all you do is listen,read and then telling others what they should do.

But people who do actual work? Like people in retail on their feet 8-9 hours a day? Or in health care? They are wastet after 8 or 9 hours and can barely do a 40 hour work week and crawl to the couch.

Some jobs are more exhausting than others. And the ones with draining jobs dont want to work 40 hours. And thats perfectly understandable.

If you work really hard you might become an asset Millionaire. Your house will be worth perhaps 1 or 2 Million. But costs of living, property tax and medicare, will break your back.

But really rich? With like a house and several Million of cash in the bank/assets/stocks? Forget it. And a Billionaire? Lol delusional.

If you look at he biographies of all the people who are rich, then like 90% either got incredibly lucky or they were already born rich and had favorable circumstances on their side.

Bill Gates had rich parents. Didnt have to work. Had access to like one of the 10 PCs that were avaliable to the public in the entire US at that time. His friends wrote most of the operating programm.

He then went to mommy who had connections to the IBM board "hey mom. could you ask your boss if he would use my Operating programm?"

Then he want to his lawyer father "hey dad could you make all the contracts for me?".

Bam. Favorable circumstances that made his success 1 Million times easier than of anyone else.

If you are poor or middle class, then you have like a 1:1 Million chance to get rich/wealthy. No matter how hard you work or what smart decisions you make. Because you dont have the cash at hand to invest, because you dont have the connections of your parents, because you have to work and dont have a safety net.

Thats the sad reality. And sucking up to the rich, claiming that they are superior people, and defending the 40, 50 or 60 hour work week, and claiming that everyone could be rich if they were just as superior as the rich, just shows what a delusional bootlicker someone is.