it’s been a rough week for like… around 450 weeks.
People be like: “Just try to think of the last time you were happy and…”
And I’m just over here thinking: “I remember being happy once… It was 1996. I was nine.”
Fri: Its been a long week and I havent had takeaways in forever I’m going to get takeaways.
sat: Im never getting takeaways again
Next Fri: Its been a long week and I havent had takeaways in forever I’m going to get takeaways.
This is how I decline into drinking too much. I’m currently on a good path though.
keep it up, i, a random stranger, am proud of you! :) there’s better little treats for you out there!
I think this is buy design. Capitalism zaps your energy by forcing you to pay the bills and leaves no energy for fun. Lazy fun means consuming. Food, drugs, tech, media, etc.
I don’t know if I’d go so far as to say it’s by design, but I definitely share your observation that capitalism doesn’t leave much time and energy you would need to pursue hobbies, and it’s way easier to get a dopamine high by consuming.
Even if this phenomenon is not by design, it is definitely synergizing very well with capitalism, and therefore there are people who exploit it and, in turn, support capitalism with their actions.
It is actually a depressing example of Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory, which states that every system inherently tends to stabilize itself.
Repeat after me, “food is not a reward.”
Don’t reward your kid’s good behavior with food, you’re not training a dog.
Well said. Have an upvote.
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Rough Week 523: The little treat is now two whole cheesecakes. I should feel ashamed, but I feel nothing without my little treat.
^This is why my pants don’t fit anymore…
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Upgrade that can of coke into a brick 😤
A brick of coke? Isn’t that like millions of dollars worth?
Google says wholesale for a kilo (brick) is about $20k
Guess I grossly miscalculated that. Still not in the ballpark of a little treat price. Not that one could physically handle a brick of coke anyway.
They are pretty easy to lift. It’s only a kilo. Even a kid can handle that.
Big treat
Buying a brick if coke may be 20k, but buying a brik, breaking a mansion windoe and 0arasite skull with it, and taking a few bricks of it’s coke before its guards get you? That’s $0.81 at home depot.
Truly; virtue is worth more than its weight in gold.
It gets even worse. My little treat is alcohol.
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Good thing that I don’t really care about life, then.
Oof. Me too.
The weekend does count. And don’t call me Shirley
If alcohol is your treat, this is how alcoholism or alcohol abuse starts.
We all need to be reinforced. That doesn’t change when we become adults. If the little treat isn’t working you are being punished too much or need a different little treat. If the little treat hurts you, such as alcohol, try to find a functionally similar treat that doesn’t. Mine was Boba and fancy coffee for a while.
That feels quite sad, honestly… I wish you all to find fulfillment and happiness without the need for sugar supplements
all good mate. ive got weed
Maybe deeper richer rewards and the paradigms of thought that support them might reproduce the incentive structure of capital a little less?
Unless you know more than ChatGPT, I’ve earned this fentanyl drip.
