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Why do we suffer?
To learn the lessons from our suffering so as not to keep suffering

Why do we work hard?
Until there's no need for hard work.

At the initial stage, hard work is important, until we, as a society, create an automation/device that reduces our time and effort we put into work.

Hardwork is a means to an end. It's not the end. The end is a life of efficiency and leisure created by the availability of automation which compels us to seek our passions, which strangely hinges on the activities we do that doesn't necessarily generate revenue/money. Example, painting with no intentions of selling, flirting with girls...

The inefficiency of using firewood to cook inspired the creation of gas cylinders. But should gas cylinders be the end, considering its hazard and the rising cost of gas prices?
Now imagine the technological shock when you hear people celebrating using firewood to cook all because it makes them look hardworking while chopping wood.

Imagine someone telling me that I should have paid a human book cover designer instead of using AI to design the cover of my two eBooks. Literally judging my ebooks by its cover. Imagine people celebrating hardwork for hardwork sake.

We build a bridge to cross to the other side, but imagine being so addicted and attached to building a bridge that we forget to cross.

Humanity should have gone past the need for hardwork and I'll tell you why hardwork for hardwork sake is still being celebrated

1) We create products that do not last/ Planned Obselescence/ Artificial Scarcity just to create Jobs

We work hard to create/ buy things we do not need to impress people's we don't know

a) The "Sealed" Smartphone: Most modern phones make it nearly impossible for a layperson to replace a battery. When the battery naturally degrades after two years, the consumer often buys a whole new phone.

The Result: We create a massive amount of "e-waste" to maintain a high volume of sales that keeps tech stock prices—and their employees' 401ks—growing


b) The "New" Fast Fashion Cycle: Clothes are now designed to last only a few washes (Planned Obsolescence) and to go out of style in weeks (Perceived Obsolescence).

The Social Pressure: Social media creates a scenario where wearing the same outfit in two different "posts" is seen as a social failure. People work overtime to buy "disposable" clothes to maintain a digital image for an audience of people they barely know.


Artificial Scarcity in the sense that inventions that could take humanity out of the crude oil stage have been hidden via the Patent Secrecy act.

2) We view Hardworking people as good people and non hardworking people as bad people

Labor is seen as a moral duty and "idleness" is viewed as a character flaw. We often use "hardworking" as a shorthand for "reliable, disciplined, and virtuous," while "lazy" becomes a shorthand for "selfish or irresponsible.

In many office cultures, the employee who stays until 8:00 PM is viewed as a "good" team player, even if their actual output is the same as someone who leaves at 5:00 PM.

Teachers are recommended to stand while teaching because it shows a sense of commitment and sacrifice, all of which are needless if the children they tutor can learn if their tutor sits.

In Nigeria, most primary, secondary and even university teachers are recommend to copy texts from the textbooks we already own, to write on the board, so that students can copy into their notebook.
Why can't textbooks be notebooks, or shouldn't there be digital alternatives that blends notebooks into textbooks? Why are markers and board still recommended in most schools?

This is the reason why most children close late from school, like they're working 9-5 like their parents, all because the time that could have been used for productive activities are being spent writing notes on the board for them to copy into their notebook. Has Nigeria reached the peak of intelligence that a solution to this anomaly can't be proferred?

3) Humans haven't learnt what they should do with their free time created by efficiency of machines/automation

Sociologists call this "Leisure Paradox"—we strive for efficiency to have more time, but once we have it, we feel anxious, guilty, or bored

Scenario 1: Online banking and grocery apps save you a trip to the store (saving ~2 hours). Instead of using that time for a hobby, you spend it managing email filters, updating app permissions, or researching the "best" vacuum cleaner on Reddit.

The Result: You feel just as busy as before, but the work is now invisible and digital.

Scenario 2: A machine now washes and dries your clothes in half the time. Instead of sitting on the porch, you use that time to listen to a "high-performance" podcast at $1.5x$ speed or track your sleep data on a smartwatch.The Result: Even your rest becomes a "job" where you are trying to meet a metric or "level up."

Scenario 3: An AI tool writes a report for you in 5 minutes that used to take 2 hours. You now have a "blank" block of time. Without a plan for how to use your mind, you spend those 115 minutes scrolling through a social media feed.

Scenario 4: Remote work technology saves you a 60-minute commute. Instead of using that hour for breakfast with your family, you start checking Slack messages from bed because the "office" is now in your pocket.

The Result: The boundary between work and life dissolves, and "free time" becomes "on-call time."

Why is this happening?
We haven't developed a Philosophy of Leisure. Historically, leisure was seen as the highest form of human existence (the time for philosophy, art, and community). Today, we view leisure only as "recovery time" so we can go back to work

The "Boredom Gap": When a machine takes over a task, it removes the "rhythm" of our day. If we don't replace that rhythm with a personal purpose, we experience a sense of vacuum that feels like anxiety.



Credit: Bertrand Russell, in praise of idleness

Google Gemini AI, for creating ideal scenarios

Engineers should be Philosophers with a positive foundation

https://www.nairaland.com/8603065/engineers-should-philosophers-positive-foundation#138205213

Unemployment should be a good thing. It should be celebrated, if you ask me.
Machine and automation taking over jobs should be a good thing.

A family man should be able to come back home and tell his wife "Honey, I finally lost my job!"

And his wife should be like "Awnnn, sweetie. Congratulations. I'm glad the machines have taken over your job. Now I and the children have you all to ourselves"

Unemployment crisis is bound to happen. It should be society's goal to rid ourselves of suffering in the form of continued hardwork just so we cannot be idle and give ourselves 'a purpose '

I have always imagined these in my mind, especially the leisure paradox but I don't really know how to put it. It really interesting you had the time to make research and come with this. I was locked in this paradox. I was a freelance graphic designer making over $500 a week from freelancing. However, I was busy, I found a purpose. At some point I started rejecting job offers just because it was too much work load.


After a while, I go people working with me. I outsourced over 80% of my job and earned more. I still found purpose. But everything lost it meaning when I started outsourcing 100% of my jobs. Now I got people who would do it better than I could. I charged more for a top-notch delivery. Although After some .months I lost purpose. It felt like I was wasting my time. I felt wasteful, not productive and at some point depressed.


The human mind is not fighting to die poor but to keep this euphoria of being hardworking while you hope to break the threshold of poverty.

A private school teacher that earned less than the minimum wage let say 30k feels he is hardworking. But in the real sense, he is too busy working and not thinking how to earn more because at some point he is busy and not a lazy man.

There's a lot I could pour concerning this topic. This is a modified comment as the previous one was a total drift and I apologize for that. It's been a while since my last reply. I hope you're feeling okay

From what I re-read, it seems you find purpose in the service you render through your job, but there's a friction because you're not doing it yourself but instead outsourcing it.
I seem to understand.

You need to look inwards and ask yourself why you feel sad.
Emotions are how our unseen self communicate to us. Alphabets are for our seen self. There's a difference between suffering and pain. Pain is could be from stab, a slap or a blow, but suffering is we getting offended, feeling guilty or unworthy of what we have or triggered by other people reaction or treatment to us. Pain is mostly external, sufferings are internal... mental. We're the cause of our suffering

The work-leisure dilemma, apart from what my post touched on, goes deeper.
You work to afford the life you want, but after working, 3 things happen:

1) Your 9-5 Monday to Fridays doesn't allow you the comfort of this enjoyment—i know this doesn't apply to you as a freelancer..
With the 2 days left, people become tooooooooo logical and calculative on whom they spend their time with. This should be a good thing if people had the ability to judge correctly.

2) The money so much lose value via inflation that you have to keep working multiple jobs to afford the life you think you want, thereby giving you limited time for your leisure

3) Technology is improving but the work load is still equal to or greater than what it was, even before innovation like AI, because companies look at profit before societal impact of overworking.

If a factory were manually making 8 pins in 8 hours, with technological improvement, shouldn't 10-16 pins be made under less than 8 hours? It's technology not regression-ology. It's meant to improve work. So why do we still work 8hrs jobs?

With technology growth, shouldn't a 4 hr Monday to Friday work day be encouraged or a Monday to Thursday 8hrs work day.

9-5 captures the time the sun makes us active. 5-9 is the time night calls us to rest. Some activities cannot be fitted into that time frame.

Humans don't really like unnecessary work. I'm in a factory typing this and I'm not thinking of how sweetscenting the smell of the cartoon that I fold to put the product is. I'm thinking of payday. Hahahahaha

My life is on hold because I don't have the money to live it. There are books that I love to read but I cannot afford. Zuby77 there and back in time, the unseen hand...lots of nairaland stories etc
So much that I feel guilty sometimes whenever I do read some that the authors complete here, because shouldn't I be using this time to work for money
Lol

I've found that to counteract that guilt, shameless is necessary to be cultivated in me.

The human mind is looking for the purpose of why we are here on earth in the first place. It cannot be to work these needless jobs because they were never to have been created in the first place. Like do you grab? The jobs should not be, so everyone working in it instinctively know that they're wasting their time. It's just like the fight against slavery. Slaves instinctively knew that slavery wasn't meant to be so. We were created in truth, from truth, so we instinctively know truth
That feeling of powerlessness to not be able to do something about where we find ourselves without consequences we are limited to imagining makes us sad.

With context, hustle culture is a scam, and competition is abnormal. Davido is one unique singer, while wizkid is another unique singer. Comparing them leads to sadness. Also, show organisers buy 3 cups for the first, second and third runner up. There are abundance of cups and trophies in the market. Why buy just 3? To make people hustle under the illusion that the trophy resources are limited. Hope you see

So hustle culture is a scam. The life we want to live comes first above any hustle whatsoever. Some find such life in their hustle, while others don't. Probably you're yet to believe that, hence the friction you feel for living in a life without too much hustle. Knowing the truth supports your will to act in it without feeling guilty or ashamed.

It's like pick-up artists. They know that all these fine girls around are dying to be approached, so they have the courage to walk up to them

Cc: Hamzaay

Hamzaay:
I have always imagined these in my mind, especially the leisure paradox but I don't really know how to put it. It really interesting you had the time to make research and come with this. I was locked in this paradox. I was a freelance graphic designer making over $500 a week from freelancing. However, I was busy, I found a purpose. At some point I started rejecting job offers just because it was too much work load.

After a while, I go people working with me. I outsourced over 80% of my job and earned more. I still found purpose. But everything lost it meaning when I started outsourcing 100% of my jobs. Now I got people who would do it better than I could. I charged more for a top-notch delivery. Although After some .months I lost purpose. It felt like I was wasting my time. I felt wasteful, not productive and at some point depressed.

The human mind is not fighting to die poor but to keep this euphoria of being hardworking while you hope to break the threshold of poverty.

A private school teacher that earned less than the minimum wage let say 30k feels he is hardworking. But in the real sense, he is too busy working and not thinking how to earn more because at some point he is busy and not a lazy man.

Suffering isn't hardwork. Most of what we put ourselves through, in quest for life's purpose aren't really necessary, you know.
We have to look inwards to realize this truth.

Some find purpose in their work—because they know how important it is to humanity, while others find friction. But not just because their inner conscience whispers this truth...
I hope this picture helps

Cc: Host78
Hamzaay

A world where money is abolished because people have begun to understand that they need what money can buy and not necessarily the money itself

As humans , we need each other and ourselves...to genuinely care for others ehule caring for ourselves, because we can't give what we don't have. How can we attempt to give care to others when we don't even care for ourselves.

If one feels their purpose in life is to be a painter, then their happiness comes when they begin to master the art of using 1000 different colors to paint, instead of just stagnating at using 10 colors. The stagnation was what caused the void in their life, amongst others, that we most times refer to as depression. Funny enough, the medical industry has a drug for depression. They're treating the effects, not the cause, all for money. The greed of mankind.

You could decide this very day to speak with the purest of words, to yourself and to others, and erase every trace of foul language from your mouth. That's growth.

I don't know you better than you know yourself, Hamzaay. Seek to grow. Money IS never an end. It was just a means to an end, as you've begun to understand now.
https://www.nairaland.com/8626659/want-things-money-buy-not


You're quite lucky you know, not having money issues like most of us have. You're one step to finding an activity that you could do that gives you happiness, and not something you do because you need to hustle money for food

Ask yourself, "what's are those activities that i liked while growing that my peer groups and parents told me won't generate money to me?"

What if you could find happiness doing such activities? Those activities that are productive to you and grows you, but you don't do because of a paycheck. That's a Gspot of life, you know

In schools here in Nigeria, SS3 science students are taught to memorize the first 20-30 chemical elements. They're taught to become independent of the periodic table

SS3 Mathematics students also are encouraged to learn to calculate without a calculator?!

All to what end? What's the point of all these suffering in our schools?

We're still writing formulas on paper in order to calculate a simultaneous equation, when there are calculators that can do these calculations in seconds!
We should as well encourage students to use firewood to cook their food
Gas cylinders should be abandoned.

The Worship Of Memory And The True Purpose Of Human Intelligence
https://www.nairaland.com/8711265/worship-memory-true-purpose-human

Cc:
NotinButDtruth,
mjblinks,
Host78,
SixSeven,
NaijaNaWaa,
CreatedtwoRule

I think my personal philosophy and way of looking at work is quite different from this.

Personally I think hardwork means a lot of things to different people.

Farming is hardwork to someone but to another it's a pleasure.

I love going to farm but I hate staying on the farm beyond the time I want to spend there. In the beginning, you see me happy but when I want to go back home and they say we need to finish so and so first and I'm already tired, then I begin to hate it.

And this is the angle I love viewing my things from. Time.

Even the sweetest of wine starts becoming irritating when you're filled and yet it's all you have to drink.

Working hard is never a bad thing. We are here to be productive. We need productivity not to die of boredom.

Imagine waking up tomorrow and not having anything to do. You get the food you want and so on.

It looks easy, like a very good deal and tempting.

I mean for a lot of us, it's the ideal life. The dream life to have nothing doing and yet have all our needs met.

Now imagine doing the same thing every day for the next 50 or 60 years. It'll almost make you crazy.

Not having anything to do kills faster than actually having something doing.

And so, for me we need a better work/rest balance.

Not necessarily less work.

However, One's work should not cut so deep into one's time that he cannot effectively rest. And one should not rest so much that it cuts into your work.

Maintaining this work/rest balance keeps anyone healthy and happy for a long time.

Even if we automate everything today and there is abundant food, we will only reproduce to a point where we tip the scale.

This has been demonstrated by rats. Given abundance of food and no "work" searching for such food, the rats began to eat and multiply abundantly.

Yet their food never diminished but soon they turned on each other. It's a well documented experiment.

As much as I hate it, work is a very important part of our "health" as a specie.

The journey of Getting to the top is what makes the top meaningful.

Bitterness is what makes us appreciate sweetness. Without darkness, light will mean nothing to us.

So I beg to differ. Continued hardwork is not of the slave.

Slavery is when the choice of working or not working has been taken away from you.

I could be passionately working on my car from morning till night or on my farm under the sun and rain because I want to get abundant yields.

To someone else, it looks like slavery or suffering but it's something that makes me happy when I go back home to relax.

There are guys who go through the gym to get six packs and then there are those who go through surgery to get the same six packs.

Both get six packs but both have different stories, different meanings and when they look at their belly, they smile differently inwardly.

I think I understand you.
While efficiency of work should be created, the philosophy of how we should use our free time should also be taught.

The reason one might think there's nothing to do with thejr free time except replace it with more work is because you haven't yet to appreciate the beauty of nature and its abundance.
They haven't found themselves in nature yet.

Everyone was born with a purpose. Anyone one does that against that purpose is a distraction to them

You think there's nothing to do, but trust me, there's more work than you can realize.

We've been constrained by religion, science and dead/confused elders that we fail to see how much work we need to do

Do you realize that learning how to speak politely and rhythmically to yourself and to others is a job? You wouldn't believe this until you start

Science studies bees just for their honeys and how to create something from their discoveries that they can market via a monthly subscription as a mean to generate paper.
Forgetting that the study of bees is deeper than their honey. From their "random" motion to the 'importance' of their stings...
Whatever science cannot market and sell, they do not reveal to the public, because an independent public wouldn't need them so they'll be purposeless.

Look around you. Find time to be quiet with yourself. Let go of your phones and what not and just be alone in a quiet place. Then try remember what you'd like to become if truly you didn't have to do a job to get money to buy food and pay other bills. Relax and be truthful to yourself. You have to be alone in a comfortable place. The answers may not come immediately, but with time, you'll begin to magically see that you really have a lot of work.

Even watching movies is work. Do you know how many PDFs I have in my phone that I haven't yet read?

Build connection. Observe your surroundings. Your triggers. Why you do what you do to others and yourself.

Some people battle addictions. They recover and try to get their life back.

Trust me, words are not enough to type sometimes.
Sometimes I feel the English alphabet shouldn't end at 26 because they're not enough to form words to convey my feelings over the phone.
Hopefully someone can create a mechanism that can transmit emotions over the phone/a device, you know. That's work too

The work is so massive that there isn't enough time to replace our free time that the efficiency of machines creates, on irrelevancies, all because we want to while away time

Host78:
I think my personal philosophy and way of looking at work is quite different from this.

Personally I think hardwork means a lot of things to different people.

Farming is hardwork to someone but to another it's a pleasure.

I love going to farm but I hate staying on the farm beyond the time I want to spend there. In the beginning, you see me happy but when I want to go back home and they say we need to finish so and so first and I'm already tired, then I begin to hate it.

And this is the angle I love viewing my things from. Time.

Even the sweetest of wine starts becoming irritating when you're filled and yet it's all you have to drink.

Working hard is never a bad thing. We are here to be productive. We need productivity not to die of boredom.

Imagine waking up tomorrow and not having anything to do. You get the food you want and so on.

It looks easy, like a very good deal and tempting.

I mean for a lot of us, it's the ideal life. The dream life to have nothing doing and yet have all our needs met.

Now imagine doing the same thing every day for the next 50 or 60 years. It'll almost make you crazy.

Not having anything to do kills faster than actually having something doing.

And so, for me we need a better work/rest balance.

Not necessarily less work.

However, One's work should not cut so deep into one's time that he cannot effectively rest. And one should not rest so much that it cuts into your work.

Maintaining this work/rest balance keeps anyone healthy and happy for a long time.

Even if we automate everything today and there is abundant food, we will only reproduce to a point where we tip the scale.

This has been demonstrated by rats. Given abundance of food and no "work" searching for such food, the rats began to eat and multiply abundantly.

Yet their food never diminished but soon they turned on each other. It's a well documented experiment.

As much as I hate it, work is a very important part of our "health" as a specie.

The journey of Getting to the top is what makes the top meaningful.

Bitterness is what makes us appreciate sweetness. Without darkness, light will mean nothing to us.

So I beg to differ. Continued hardwork is not of the slave.

Slavery is when the choice of working or not working has been taken away from you.

I could be passionately working on my car from morning till night or on my farm under the sun and rain because I want to get abundant yields.

To someone else, it looks like slavery or suffering but it's something that makes me happy when I go back home to relax.

There are guys who go through the gym to get six packs and then there are those who go through surgery to get the same six packs.

Both get six packs but both have different stories, different meanings and when they look at their belly, they smile differently inwardly.

Reverseng:
In schools here in Nigeria, SS3 science students are taught to memorize the first 20-30 chemical elements. They're taught to become independent of the periodic table

SS3 Mathematics students also are encouraged to learn to calculate without a calculator?!

All to what end? What's the point of all these suffering in our schools?

We're still writing formulas on paper in order to calculate a simultaneous equation, when there are calculators that can do these calculations in seconds!
We should as well encourage students to use firewood to cook their food
Gas cylinders should be abandoned.

Humans were built to excessive their intellect. We were created with large brains that need to analyze something. This is why God gave Adam work to take care of Eden. If you give somebody 1 million dollars everyday and stopped him or her from using his brain for anything, such a person will commit suicide. I mean life without work is hell. This is why rich people's children are not happy.
Secondly there are still a lot of things in maths, science, art, social science etc that have not being discovered. Machines alone cannot do it. Humans need to do it. All machines can do is help.
Lastly not using yiur mind cam make someone run mad. I mean loosing one's mind is often used as a term for insanity.

The seeker is the sought. You only see what you look for
https://www.nairaland.com/8591634/what-wanted-ask-it-shall

Philosopher1979:
Humans were built to excessive their intellect. We were created with large brains that need to analyze something. This is why God gave Adam work to take care of Eden. If you give somebody 1 million dollars everyday and stopped him or her from using his brain for anything, such a person will commit suicide. I mean life without work is hell. This is why rich people's children are not happy.
Secondly there are still a lot of things in maths, science, art, social science etc that have not being discovered. Machines alone cannot do it. Humans need to do it. All machines can do is help.
Lastly not using yiur mind cam make someone run mad. I mean loosing one's mind is often used as a term for insanity.

Another complementary post:
The Abnormality Of Competition And The Scam Of Hustle Culture

https://www.nairaland.com/8701026/abnormality-competition-scam-hustle-culture

Hello ,Apologies for not replying sooner. I have been busy.

I will read your post and reply with the most profound enthusiasm

How many characters needed again? Lol

The Worship Of Memory And The True Purpose Of Human Intelligence
https://www.nairaland.com/8711265/worship-memory-true-purpose-human

Philosopher1979:
Humans were built to excessive their intellect. We were created with large brains that need to analyze something. This is why God gave Adam work to take care of Eden. If you give somebody 1 million dollars everyday and stopped him or her from using his brain for anything, such a person will commit suicide. I mean life without work is hell. This is why rich people's children are not happy.
Secondly there are still a lot of things in maths, science, art, social science etc that have not being discovered. Machines alone cannot do it. Humans need to do it. All machines can do is help.
Lastly not using yiur mind cam make someone run mad. I mean loosing one's mind is often used as a term for insanity.

Reverseng:
Why do we suffer?

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To atone for our sins

To learn the lessons from our suffering so as not to keep suffering

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We not learning sht

Why do we work hard?
Until there's no need for hard work.

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There will always be need for hard work

At the initial stage, hard work is important, until we, as a society, create an automation/device that reduces our time and effort we put into work.

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The device must be maintained

Hardwork is a means to an end. It's not the end. The end is a life of efficiency and leisure created by the availability of automation which compels us to seek our passions, which strangely hinges on the activities we do that doesn't necessarily generate revenue/money. Example, painting with no intentions of selling, flirting with girls...

The inefficiency of using firewood to cook inspired the creation of gas cylinders. But should gas cylinders be the end, considering its hazard and the rising cost of gas prices?
Now imagine the technological shock when you hear people celebrating using firewood to cook all because it makes them look hardworking while chopping wood.

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What the hell are you talking about

Imagine someone telling me that I should have paid a human book cover designer instead of using AI to design the cover of my two eBooks. Literally judging my ebooks by its cover. Imagine people celebrating hardwork for hardwork sake.

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Is it your celebration? Why is it paining you?

We build a bridge to cross to the other side, but imagine being so addicted and attached to building a bridge that we forget to cross.

Humanity should have gone past the need for hardwork and I'll tell you why hardwork for hardwork sake is still being celebrated

1) We create products that do not last/ Planned Obselescence/ Artificial Scarcity just to create Jobs

We work hard to create/ buy things we do not need to impress people's we don't know

a) The "Sealed" Smartphone: Most modern phones make it nearly impossible for a layperson to replace a battery. When the battery naturally degrades after two years, the consumer often buys a whole new phone.

The Result: We create a massive amount of "e-waste" to maintain a high volume of sales that keeps tech stock prices—and their employees' 401ks—growing


b) The "New" Fast Fashion Cycle: Clothes are now designed to last only a few washes (Planned Obsolescence) and to go out of style in weeks (Perceived Obsolescence).

The Social Pressure: Social media creates a scenario where wearing the same outfit in two different "posts" is seen as a social failure. People work overtime to buy "disposable" clothes to maintain a digital image for an audience of people they barely know.


Artificial Scarcity in the sense that inventions that could take humanity out of the crude oil stage have been hidden via the Patent Secrecy act.

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Are we all Americans? Does China not violate patents? Stop dreaming

2) We view Hardworking people as good people and non hardworking people as bad people

Labor is seen as a moral duty and "idleness" is viewed as a character flaw. We often use "hardworking" as a shorthand for "reliable, disciplined, and virtuous," while "lazy" becomes a shorthand for "selfish or irresponsible.

In many office cultures, the employee who stays until 8:00 PM is viewed as a "good" team player, even if their actual output is the same as someone who leaves at 5:00 PM.

Teachers are recommended to stand while teaching because it shows a sense of commitment and sacrifice, all of which are needless if the children they tutor can learn if their tutor sits.

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How will the student see the teacher if they all look at the sitting at the same level? Do you think before you talk or you just like yapping?

In Nigeria, most primary, secondary and even university teachers are recommend to copy texts from the textbooks we already own, to write on the board, so that students can copy into their notebook.
Why can't textbooks be notebooks, or shouldn't there be digital alternatives that blends notebooks into textbooks? Why are markers and board still recommended in most schools?

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Is it true that will buy the laptops? We tried it during covid blackboards work better than laptops

This is the reason why most children close late from school, like they're working 9-5 like their parents, all because the time that could have been used for productive activities are being spent writing notes on the board for them to copy into their notebook. Has Nigeria reached the peak of intelligence that a solution to this anomaly can't be proferred?

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I don't think you live in Nigeria

3) Humans haven't learnt what they should do with their free time created by efficiency of machines/automation

Sociologists call this "Leisure Paradox"—we strive for efficiency to have more time, but once we have it, we feel anxious, guilty, or bored

Scenario 1: Online banking and grocery apps save you a trip to the store (saving ~2 hours). Instead of using that time for a hobby, you spend it managing email filters, updating app permissions, or researching the "best" vacuum cleaner on Reddit.

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You manage email filters every day?

The Result: You feel just as busy as before, but the work is now invisible and digital.

Scenario 2: A machine now washes and dries your clothes in half the time. Instead of sitting on the porch, you use that time to listen to a "high-performance" podcast at $1.5x$ speed or track your sleep data on a smartwatch.The Result: Even your rest becomes a "job" where you are trying to meet a metric or "level up."

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Speak for yourself yeah relax everyday and so do most people that's why most of them are broke and those who are scared of being broke work harder

Scenario 3: An AI tool writes a report for you in 5 minutes that used to take 2 hours. You now have a "blank" block of time. Without a plan for how to use your mind, you spend those 115 minutes scrolling through a social media feed.

Scenario 4: Remote work technology saves you a 60-minute commute. Instead of using that hour for breakfast with your family, you start checking Slack messages from bed because the "office" is now in your pocket.

The Result: The boundary between work and life dissolves, and "free time" becomes "on-call time."

Why is this happening?
We haven't developed a Philosophy of Leisure. Historically, leisure was seen as the highest form of human existence (the time for philosophy, art, and community). Today, we view leisure only as "recovery time" so we can go back to work

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It's happening because you don't have any competition and you choose to go out to get ahead more and more because humans are never satisfied

The "Boredom Gap": When a machine takes over a task, it removes the "rhythm" of our day. If we don't replace that rhythm with a personal purpose, we experience a sense of vacuum that feels like anxiety.



Credit: Bertrand Russell, in praise of idleness

Google Gemini AI, for creating ideal scenarios

Russell is a professional yapper

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Reverseng:
Unemployment should be a good thing. It should be celebrated, if you ask me.
Machine and automation taking over jobs should be a good thing.

A family man should be able to come back home and tell his wife "Honey, I finally lost my job!"

And his wife should be like "Awnnn, sweetie. Congratulations. I'm glad the machines have taken over your job. Now I and the children have you all to ourselves"

Unemployment crisis is bound to happen. It should be society's goal to rid ourselves of suffering in the form of continued hardwork just so we cannot be idle and give ourselves 'a purpose '