We “live to work” because our corporate overlords demand that we be productive for production’s sake.

Regarding work before industrialization, it’s more complicated than that. Slavery was abolished in the 19th century, so a lot of people, especially enslaved Africans, were literally worked to the death and received severe physical punishment if they didn’t work properly. For free people, they didn’t have to do the amount of work we do in order to afford food safety, though “worker rights” didn’t exist for them, either. Abusive boss? Shut up and fuck off. Stolen pay? Too bad.

One of the biggest differences, however, is that people tended to socialize a lot more, and having friends to watch your back when things get hard is one of the best survival mechanisms. Out of food? Good thing my neighbor is willing to spare some of his while I fix some boards on his home. Maybe he’s not asking for anything in return this time because he feels like this is paying back for a favor I did 3 months ago.

Interesting fact: the first indigenous tribes that the Spanish enslaved once they started colonizing Central America were completely unprepared to the European work brutality forced upon them and would often kill themselves if being captured for slave labor was inevitable. Before that, they had never needed to work so hard to sustain themselves.

unknownuser’s argument is that the boy couldn’t consent because he’d be surrounded by people telling him that the only way to be a leader is to take the ritual. The quote, verbatim:

The boy was told by everyone around him if he wanted to be a leader he had to do it, at an age where kids are pretty impressionable and also are dying to make an impression

If that’s all it takes to remove consent, then we might as well isolate every children from other people.

I sincerely doubt anyone in the group would be telling him “you should totally do it! It’ll be awesome!”, but rather that he better think twice before doing it and what to expect in the immediate aftermath of the ritual, not in a “you might feel” but in a “you will feel” way, because those stings are no joke. I wouldn’t be surprised if the boy even went so far as to take a single sting sometime before the ritual just to know how deep in shit he’d be.

Precisely. Yesterday, as I watched a tv program that recorded one of these tucandeira rituals, the pajé (spiritual leader) explained that the ritual was to prepare the children and adolescents for the pains that the world will throw at them, that if they want to be warriors, leaders and represent their people outside, they must be able to endure those and other pains.

The boy taking the ritual, which was from his own free will, no less, looked like he was 11yo; he endured to the end, possibly his first session. Too bad the show didn’t follow the day after the ritual

Can I get an american boyfriend to send me 2k dollars, too? I’ll take one that can only afford 1,999/mo, i’m not that picky

I’ve always wondered, because sometimes it looked like that, despite being banned, a certain account still made new posts to the community they were banned from

Did you know all creator posts are wiped out from lemmy after account banned?

I’m dubious of that, because I’ve often seen posts with a red [banned from community] tag right beside the user, which often made me scratch my head - how/why is that post there if the user is banned?

Another thing to keep in mind, we don’t need to be reddit in terms of content volume. Yeah, a lot of us expect that, but it’s better for us, as humans in the long term, to be slower here

Ok, and what exactly is this thing for?

I take full responsibility 🤣

more like what we don’t have: a corporate overlord

Neat, I was looking for a place to host a boardgame convention!

Why stop there? Let’s give it some tentacles!

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Ah, the old pyramid scheme.

> self hosted
> site is at vercel.app

Chief, I think this might be fake

As much as I want, I can’t read japanese and that article has no translated version

He’s not even about tree fiddy, poor sod

Corporations must be held accountable for the scams that are posted/boosted on their platforms. If they profit off it, they must be liable for letting it go public.

I suspect a TV channel in any civilized place would avoid showing an advert for an obvious scam (the fake AI celebrity endorsement) because that would, at least, destroy their reputation, or even get sued for not vetting the content.

Should be played until your most common cause of fortress failure is FPS death

Dunno. Probably see what my family needs most first, then check if it’s worth getting a used electric car. If not, keep it around to pay some standing debts.

Meanwhile, when novels do have a relatively large fanbase, boy, better stay away from them