this is what I come here for.

Let's watch him ignore everyone except sensei Trots, master of the netpho dojo

white kids right? they're so fucking infuriating. they've lived in their suburban walled communities for 20 years then they venture out on their own and haven't realized that the world does not care for them and it's much harder than mommy ever told you

and vixnix, your hatecrush is showing

fuck work! can't some machine do it?
i've thought about this for a couple of minutes and this is my opinion.

watching some McDude from cluelessville identify you as his guru and commenting on it does not a hatecrush maketh, McTrotsky.

Hey now, Elhpy is Trotskies protege. It's a mentor/student type of relationship... Nothing wrong with that.

I, in fact, have never commented on the wrongness of it and have only commented with albeit rather scathing affection

Trotsky has accused me of the hatecrush, first I will defend my honour with words. Then we shall summon the witnesses and put one of us to death. It is the only way

human beings just aren't meant to work

A good days work has a lot of value for the human mind/soul

you know, I'm going to take this because nobody else will give me anything for my trouble...I really appreciate you saying this, because otherwise it does feel like I'm doing the dog-work of Trotsky's mentoring and educating young Elphenor without anybody really acknowledging that all Trots does is turn up at the end and high-5 CAIC over some netpho bro banter

It's the reason why old people retire and then get alzheimer's within 5-10 years.

The brain is meant to be challenged and focused on a regular basis. If you're just sitting around doing nothing your brain will rot. That's why it's good to be an old fuck and still working or at least still creating art and living life at a consistent level.

Seriously its sad when you can't see when i'm not being for reals.

This is part of the problem with this forum.

The working world is becoming more and more mechanised tho

How come you never hear poor people that work their face off say that a hard day's work is good for the mind/soul?

Because the people that say that are actually the one's that never worked hard ever

Why are you making this about me? Likely I'll be a janitor or other shitty job they warn you about. But it has nothing to do with what I'm talking about

Ive heard stuff like that from cooks

I need to keep in mind that everyone on this board is old

^^^^^^^^^

Well, obviously theres a line in the sand. Being a workaholic isn't doing the mind any good. It's all about challenging the mind and keeping it exercised to a certain level on a daily basis. Work is a way to accomplish that.

You see these people on welfare and what not and most of them aren't in a very good emotional state. Even people that win the lottery and coast on that have been shown to have a greater risk at having psychiatric problems.

Definitely spending most of my adult life not working (making a living but not working per se) i think has really fucked me up and fucked up any chance at ever having any kind of fairly normal life.

I stopped responding to you because you sound like Belte to me and I can't do that anymore

Ehhh. It's never too late to right the ship man. When I was younger and out of school I didn't hold a job for a couple years and my mental problems really came to the forefront and my emotional stability was in the gutter. I put a lot of work into bettering myself but working a steady job really was one of the major factors in alleviating those problems.

Can I just point out that I also Work and don't have a lot of free time

Strange, that. Because according to this:

https://i.imgur.com/c9siJgR.png

Cooks are right at the bottom of the heap of wages. Even the very highest paid chefs get a middling wage compared to some of the upper percentiles of other industries. The conditions are really high stress, too.

yeah no kidding but they act like masochists about it, read the first tony bourdain book