“We have a duty to hope, as without hope all is lost.” “In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength.”
The story of the businessman and the fisherman comes to mind: _One day a fisherman was lying on a beautiful beach, with his fishing pole propped up in the sand and his solitary line cast out into the sparkling blue surf. He was enjoying the warmth of the afternoon sun and the prospect of catching a fish._ _About that time, a businessman came walking down the beach, trying to relieve some of the stress of his workday. He noticed the fisherman sitting on the beach and decided to find out why this fisherman was fishing instead of working harder to make a living for himself and his family. “You aren’t going to catch many fish that way,” said the businessman to the fisherman._ _“You should be working rather than lying on the beach!”_ _The fisherman looked up at the businessman, smiled and replied, “And what will my reward be?”_ _“Well, you can get bigger nets and catch more fish!” was the businessman’s answer. “And then what will my reward be?” asked the fisherman, still smiling. The businessman replied, “You will make money and you’ll be able to buy a boat, which will then result in larger catches of fish!”_ _“And then what will my reward be?” asked the fisherman again._ _The businessman was beginning to get a little irritated with the fisherman’s questions. “You can buy a bigger boat, and hire some people to work for you!” he said._ _“And then what will my reward be?” repeated the fisherman._ _The businessman was getting angry. “Don’t you understand? You can build up a fleet of fishing boats, sail all over the world, and let all your employees catch fish for you!”_ _Once again the fisherman asked, “And then what will my reward be?”_ _The businessman was red with rage and shouted at the fisherman, “Don’t you understand that you can become so rich that you will never have to work for your living again! You can spend all the rest of your days sitting on this beach, looking at the sunset. You won’t have a care in the world!”_ _The fisherman, still smiling, looked up and said, “And what do you think I’m doing right now?”"_
As for me, I grew up 60 years ago. It was possible to have one one apartment and a vacation house on one full- and one halftime salary. Our front door was never locked if someone was at home, kids were roaming on their own, doctors actually did house visits, employment were plentiful and people were hopeful. Not much of that left.
You can never go back, only forward. Take what worked from the past and cut out what didn't. Iterate on it a thousand times. I do not wish to live in the simpler past nor could I ever; it's a fantasy but we could build a better tomorrow. It'll be hard, we have to claw our way out from under the boots of those that crush our dreams.
I never comment on things, but man this channel is criminally underrated. Keep up the uploads man this is some great stuff. Working on the transitions and pacing, would be my suggestions if i were to have any, and good luck.
Personally im pretty thrilled about the upcoming changes related to AI. But regardless of our predictions it could go either way and its really hard to imagine the world after AI revolution, whether it will be for better or worse (very much possibly a mix). Anyways good video.
Work sucks because we have no autonomy. It's not *ours.* Men are built to explore, see things beyond their comprehension, and to scream at the top of their lungs at a starry sky that no one has ever seen before... not to sit behind a checkout lane, sweep floors, or lock doors. We have *lost* the experience of being explorers. Almost everything on Earth has been seen, touched, or felt. Why would our world or society grow if we have everything that gives us our quiet hits of dopamine? We have grown comfortable, stagnant; those in power believing themselves our betters; whether it's your parents, the rich, or those in political power. The only way to "win" is to become one of those figures of power, or to abandon the comfortable world they have built for us.
@@olmeno honestly i dont think i deserve survival, on my 3rd day of starvation rn, pls tell me in that tough guy tone of yours i really dont deserve it, im thinking of relapsing
in the end - the world will be divided by the mundanes and the conveniences, the patient and the impatient. We'll all have drawn the line too far, that people living in farms (if conveniences didn't replace them by AI), they'll live and rest easy - knowing that they were able to enjoy the small things throughout their lives.
I mean I get what you mean but if you cannot find joy in life merely because it's made easier, then that's on you. We should strive to make life easier. Humanity should realize that the more options, the better. Why limit oneself to harder if things can be easier. If the fat humans keep driving a cart in what was the cartoon, Wall E? No? Idk sry; it's their choice. Is it a dumb choice? It is, but as long as there's an option to stand up and walk, it's on them. Having AI around is great, some people dream about being artists but can never comprehend what or how. Pushing a button to fill up a field, to hear sound, to read a book without flipping through it. Conveniences are good. What's not good is for Digital Media dissolving Physical Media, now it's even worse because they're taking away the digitally owned things that you already paid for, and they even censor it with updates. What we should strive for as a world should be not to be focused on traditions as that means living in the past, but to not forget the past. We don't need a trade off, but a cohabitat. We should also strive for a 4 hour work week to become normal, because they pulled a 9 to 5 on us like it was a gun, sure it helped workers in the begining, because money was flowing. But, we don't need money to flow this fast. In fact, we don't even need money, but that would be too advanced for apes on two legs so let's imprison them at least 4 hours, that's somewhat better. So yeag, 4 hour work week should become the norm. Because our time should once again become our time. It doesn't matter what you do or if you don't know what to do. You need to LIVE your life, and not spend it slaving away for a system to come home tired or get into fights with people because you make more than usual choices among who to see to save up on some time. Renewable energies should be the norm of modern living, everything can be powered by them, and robotics, I mean come on, we are so advanced, yet we are putting a burden on Sisyphus (did I write that correctlly?) instead of sending the dude on vacation. But no, see this is the problem. "VACATION" shouldn't be normal, because a vacation is basicaly normal life, and yet we define it as a leisure, precisely because we created a flawed system which eats away at the soul, instead of supporting the essence of existence on Earth, namely living your life HOW you want, WHERE you want, WHEN you want, HOW LONG you want (not age, duration of activities) and so on, instead of slaving away. Taxes are ever so increasing to pay for cars of the people in charge just because they don't want to take the bus or are tired of their old cars? Come on. They build deformed benches to combat homelessness instead of feeding the people? They encourage restaurants to throw away food instead of handing it to homeless? Universal Basic Income is a thing.... it should become a norm. With choices humans will do what they want, and with robotics and renewable energies, we fill the gaps. Censorship should be nonexistent, whoever feels triggered turn your head.
The reason why we are not living in Cyberpunkd edge city is because cyberpunk is an exxagerated dystopia and completely unrealistic. Meanwhile, the only people who idolize that past you mentioned are those who did not live it. No one wants to go back to being a farmhand, harvesting grain with sickles. No one wants to go back to factory work at an assembly line, a job straight out of hell that unfortunately has been around for hundreds of years by now. I like being able to take an aspirin whenever my head feels like it's going to split because my biology is on the fritz. I like being able to heat my food at the press of a button and to have well stocked super markets around. We are not going back to the stupid ages.
Your're missing the point. Convenience leads to boredom. Boredom leads to understimulation. Understimulation leads to idiocy. The simplicity of modern living is turning us into degenerates. And it is for that reason that there is a part of our society that seeks complication again. It wouldn't be the case if capitalist overlords weren't robbing our futures of money and time. Elements we could both use to grow culturally and create art. You say that "the only people who idolize that past [...] are those who did not live it.". You are severely mistaken. Having lived the early 2000s, I can tell you that I'd much rather go back to a time in my infancy when you didn't have to connect to the internet to play an offline game. It's a mundane example, but it's also the truth. I lived a better life before the 2020s. All I see now is a world that's inching closer and closer to a twisted, dark reality that countless pieces of media were warning us about. Corporate greed is metamorphing the lives of individuals into money generators at the cost of their mental and physical wellbeing. Sure, there are technological feats that have objectively improved civilisation, especially in the medical sector, and AI is playing a big role in it. But that doesn't mean that the majority of entities that implement AI in their research, products, and/or services are benefactors. No one is saying that humanity should go back to working an assembly line at a factory. They're saying that the professionals that are being replaced by automatons should at least get the chance to learn a new skill without financial worries looming over them during unemployment. This is unfortunately not the case for practically anyone in this day and age. Next time you take an aspirin, ask yourself why you even have a headache in the first place. I'm pretty sure it's not because you caught a bug, but because modern life is a mental strain and it's taken a toll on you.
@@KuroHebi "Convenience leads to boredom. Boredom leads to understimulation. Understimulation leads to idiocy" - all of that is completely unsubstantiated nonsense. We work so we can live. And once we no longer needed o work 12 hours a day, seven days a week,, we filled that extra time with good stuff. If it goes down to 4 hours a week, we will have more time to do good things with. Raising our kids, for example. Ask any mother, they will tell you it's a full time job. Humans adapt. we adapted to having to work until our backs broke, we will adapt to the opposite just as well.
@@Alexander_Kale unsubstantiated nonsense? Go tell that to the new generations of young people rotting in front of smartphones with apps engineered to keep them docile, compliable and addicted. A few taps is all you need to watch nostalgia-riddled reboot slop flicks. Or you can doomscroll for six hours staring at braindead streamers pretending to be NPCs repeating the same lines over and over for views, likes and money. If that's what you fill your time with, then I'm not sure I'd call it a good use of our precious lives. Humans adapt, but it doesn't mean that they're evolving for the better.
Same here. The present and the future give me more hope. Happiness can only be found within yourself. To be honest, a farm life, which not everyone was doing, would get boring and grindy very fast. During my time at college and university, I worked in a factory weighing herbs and mixing salads. I would never want to do that again. Programming is a much more fulfilling job. Bear in mind that fifty years ago, the majority of people were in factories. It feels like I wasted a chunk of my life at that job and still feel sad about it. My uncle also worked on a farm as a manager. He was looking after chickens and apparently hated it. During the winter, it was wet and cold, and he had to do manual labor every day. Being a farmer and being fifty years in the past is just a fantasy you imagined in your head. You did not expect any of it. When I was a kid, I thought it would be so cool to work and buy myself whatever I wanted, but now it doesn't feel so fun anymore. Although I love my programming job, nothing beats a carefree childhood. A lot of people think it's better on the other side, but that is mostly cope
Dude you need to mix your audio better. I’m hearing disgusting mouth sounds every 5-10 seconds. Love the video and topic but will not be finishing the video because i hate those noises. sucks, not a lot of vids like this out there but i can’t ignore it
Love the jab at the simmer nonsense fake food ads Convenience is real, most women don't want a man without a car. How sad. Shallow world. I recently went back to uni to finish my maths degree. And yet I enjoyed my depressing warehouse job more.
Wow UA-cam showing me a small creator? Hope this keeps up and you keep posting.
Thank you for commenting, got some cool videos coming up!
Ikr
We are already living in Cyberpunk, just not exagerated version of it.
“We have a duty to hope, as without hope all is lost.”
“In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength.”
The story of the businessman and the fisherman comes to mind:
_One day a fisherman was lying on a beautiful beach, with his fishing pole propped up in the sand and his solitary line cast out into the sparkling blue surf. He was enjoying the warmth of the afternoon sun and the prospect of catching a fish._
_About that time, a businessman came walking down the beach, trying to relieve some of the stress of his workday. He noticed the fisherman sitting on the beach and decided to find out why this fisherman was fishing instead of working harder to make a living for himself and his family. “You aren’t going to catch many fish that way,” said the businessman to the fisherman._
_“You should be working rather than lying on the beach!”_
_The fisherman looked up at the businessman, smiled and replied, “And what will my reward be?”_
_“Well, you can get bigger nets and catch more fish!” was the businessman’s answer. “And then what will my reward be?” asked the fisherman, still smiling. The businessman replied, “You will make money and you’ll be able to buy a boat, which will then result in larger catches of fish!”_
_“And then what will my reward be?” asked the fisherman again._
_The businessman was beginning to get a little irritated with the fisherman’s questions. “You can buy a bigger boat, and hire some people to work for you!” he said._
_“And then what will my reward be?” repeated the fisherman._
_The businessman was getting angry. “Don’t you understand? You can build up a fleet of fishing boats, sail all over the world, and let all your employees catch fish for you!”_
_Once again the fisherman asked, “And then what will my reward be?”_
_The businessman was red with rage and shouted at the fisherman, “Don’t you understand that you can become so rich that you will never have to work for your living again! You can spend all the rest of your days sitting on this beach, looking at the sunset. You won’t have a care in the world!”_
_The fisherman, still smiling, looked up and said, “And what do you think I’m doing right now?”"_
As for me, I grew up 60 years ago. It was possible to have one one apartment and a vacation house on one full- and one halftime salary. Our front door was never locked if someone was at home, kids were roaming on their own, doctors actually did house visits, employment were plentiful and people were hopeful. Not much of that left.
Leaving doors unlocked sounds so idyllic
You can never go back, only forward. Take what worked from the past and cut out what didn't. Iterate on it a thousand times. I do not wish to live in the simpler past nor could I ever; it's a fantasy but we could build a better tomorrow. It'll be hard, we have to claw our way out from under the boots of those that crush our dreams.
i dont want a quiet simple easy going life im trynna be chippin in
Hope is gone, and I’m not about to start coping either.
The future is a mess but its good to keep hold of the simple things in life
I am farming for self sufficiency and to make iced tea to sell, money is not that important, health is , wisdom is, self-development is.
didn't realize this was a small channel until I saw the subscriber count, damn this is good quality, keep it up!
After 2020 everything is kind of dystopic
We yearn for fields
*Road 96 was one of the most refreshing and unique games I've played in the past 10 years 👌 more people need to play that game.*
I never comment on things, but man this channel is criminally underrated. Keep up the uploads man this is some great stuff. Working on the transitions and pacing, would be my suggestions if i were to have any, and good luck.
I clicked on this cus i have a huge connection to both of the games you picked as a thumbnail congrats on gaining a small yt creator as a sub 😅
Stellar choice with the Citizen Sleeper soundtrack
Love the content
Airplanes are in fact flying cars
Personally im pretty thrilled about the upcoming changes related to AI. But regardless of our predictions it could go either way and its really hard to imagine the world after AI revolution, whether it will be for better or worse (very much possibly a mix). Anyways good video.
Glad UA-cam is doing a better job recommending stuff now 😊
I like a convenience, but I see your point.
wow the citizen sleeper soundtrack was an immediate sub :)
bella ciao at the end got me
Interesting thought experiment.
That is why RDR2 was made this way, it's just a perfect game to explore, a perfect game if you are interested in travelling and nature or rural areas.
I've had the same thoughts about convenience.
Nice video man, keep going.
Thanks for the comment. Will do.
Nice video, calling Jeremy Clarkson a 'random British Person' is a bit of a stretch though.
nicely done
Thanks
Another banger UA-cam video!
Nice Perspective
Work sucks because we have no autonomy. It's not *ours.* Men are built to explore, see things beyond their comprehension, and to scream at the top of their lungs at a starry sky that no one has ever seen before... not to sit behind a checkout lane, sweep floors, or lock doors.
We have *lost* the experience of being explorers. Almost everything on Earth has been seen, touched, or felt. Why would our world or society grow if we have everything that gives us our quiet hits of dopamine? We have grown comfortable, stagnant; those in power believing themselves our betters; whether it's your parents, the rich, or those in political power.
The only way to "win" is to become one of those figures of power, or to abandon the comfortable world they have built for us.
except in that world of brave explorers many would be to weak to survive seems like you are glorifying the past a bit too much
@@olmeno Am I? I would prefer several days of discomfort to whatever *this* is.
@ i’d like to see you explore as a slave or a peasant XD
@@olmeno honestly i dont think i deserve survival, on my 3rd day of starvation rn, pls tell me in that tough guy tone of yours i really dont deserve it, im thinking of relapsing
My mom always says the day that go was good the day that come is worse
dO yOu rEaLLy wAnT tO aFfOrD a hOuSe?!????
Let's see if you can keep up the sass in solitary. Take him away!
I want to live in the future the Halo universe has.
Keep it up man!
No way you reply to every comment! That's amazing! Keep it up.
in the end - the world will be divided by the mundanes and the conveniences, the patient and the impatient. We'll all have drawn the line too far, that people living in farms (if conveniences didn't replace them by AI), they'll live and rest easy - knowing that they were able to enjoy the small things throughout their lives.
Amazing video, I thought you would have had at least 1m subs
This comment means a lot thanks.
It actually has a fitting quality compared to the sub count imo
valid asf
Good videos, but wish it have a little more rhythm, feels slows some times. Anyways, good job
Thanks for the advice. This means a lot.
Under 200 Views??? What is going on? With a better Mic and better illustrations, this would be absolute top tier UA-cam Content. Nice work!
Quick suggestion, more consistent music that has less breaks might increase your AVD and help with engagement.
I mean I get what you mean but if you cannot find joy in life merely because it's made easier, then that's on you. We should strive to make life easier. Humanity should realize that the more options, the better. Why limit oneself to harder if things can be easier. If the fat humans keep driving a cart in what was the cartoon, Wall E? No? Idk sry; it's their choice. Is it a dumb choice? It is, but as long as there's an option to stand up and walk, it's on them. Having AI around is great, some people dream about being artists but can never comprehend what or how. Pushing a button to fill up a field, to hear sound, to read a book without flipping through it. Conveniences are good. What's not good is for Digital Media dissolving Physical Media, now it's even worse because they're taking away the digitally owned things that you already paid for, and they even censor it with updates. What we should strive for as a world should be not to be focused on traditions as that means living in the past, but to not forget the past. We don't need a trade off, but a cohabitat. We should also strive for a 4 hour work week to become normal, because they pulled a 9 to 5 on us like it was a gun, sure it helped workers in the begining, because money was flowing. But, we don't need money to flow this fast. In fact, we don't even need money, but that would be too advanced for apes on two legs so let's imprison them at least 4 hours, that's somewhat better. So yeag, 4 hour work week should become the norm. Because our time should once again become our time. It doesn't matter what you do or if you don't know what to do. You need to LIVE your life, and not spend it slaving away for a system to come home tired or get into fights with people because you make more than usual choices among who to see to save up on some time. Renewable energies should be the norm of modern living, everything can be powered by them, and robotics, I mean come on, we are so advanced, yet we are putting a burden on Sisyphus (did I write that correctlly?) instead of sending the dude on vacation. But no, see this is the problem. "VACATION" shouldn't be normal, because a vacation is basicaly normal life, and yet we define it as a leisure, precisely because we created a flawed system which eats away at the soul, instead of supporting the essence of existence on Earth, namely living your life HOW you want, WHERE you want, WHEN you want, HOW LONG you want (not age, duration of activities) and so on, instead of slaving away. Taxes are ever so increasing to pay for cars of the people in charge just because they don't want to take the bus or are tired of their old cars? Come on. They build deformed benches to combat homelessness instead of feeding the people? They encourage restaurants to throw away food instead of handing it to homeless? Universal Basic Income is a thing.... it should become a norm. With choices humans will do what they want, and with robotics and renewable energies, we fill the gaps. Censorship should be nonexistent, whoever feels triggered turn your head.
Ai is not cheap, those racks of GPUs are nothing to scoff at
The reason why we are not living in Cyberpunkd edge city is because cyberpunk is an exxagerated dystopia and completely unrealistic. Meanwhile, the only people who idolize that past you mentioned are those who did not live it.
No one wants to go back to being a farmhand, harvesting grain with sickles. No one wants to go back to factory work at an assembly line, a job straight out of hell that unfortunately has been around for hundreds of years by now.
I like being able to take an aspirin whenever my head feels like it's going to split because my biology is on the fritz. I like being able to heat my food at the press of a button and to have well stocked super markets around.
We are not going back to the stupid ages.
Your're missing the point. Convenience leads to boredom. Boredom leads to understimulation. Understimulation leads to idiocy. The simplicity of modern living is turning us into degenerates. And it is for that reason that there is a part of our society that seeks complication again. It wouldn't be the case if capitalist overlords weren't robbing our futures of money and time. Elements we could both use to grow culturally and create art.
You say that "the only people who idolize that past [...] are those who did not live it.". You are severely mistaken. Having lived the early 2000s, I can tell you that I'd much rather go back to a time in my infancy when you didn't have to connect to the internet to play an offline game. It's a mundane example, but it's also the truth. I lived a better life before the 2020s. All I see now is a world that's inching closer and closer to a twisted, dark reality that countless pieces of media were warning us about. Corporate greed is metamorphing the lives of individuals into money generators at the cost of their mental and physical wellbeing. Sure, there are technological feats that have objectively improved civilisation, especially in the medical sector, and AI is playing a big role in it. But that doesn't mean that the majority of entities that implement AI in their research, products, and/or services are benefactors.
No one is saying that humanity should go back to working an assembly line at a factory. They're saying that the professionals that are being replaced by automatons should at least get the chance to learn a new skill without financial worries looming over them during unemployment. This is unfortunately not the case for practically anyone in this day and age.
Next time you take an aspirin, ask yourself why you even have a headache in the first place. I'm pretty sure it's not because you caught a bug, but because modern life is a mental strain and it's taken a toll on you.
@@KuroHebi "Convenience leads to boredom. Boredom leads to understimulation. Understimulation leads to idiocy" - all of that is completely unsubstantiated nonsense. We work so we can live. And once we no longer needed o work 12 hours a day, seven days a week,, we filled that extra time with good stuff.
If it goes down to 4 hours a week, we will have more time to do good things with.
Raising our kids, for example. Ask any mother, they will tell you it's a full time job.
Humans adapt. we adapted to having to work until our backs broke, we will adapt to the opposite just as well.
@@Alexander_Kale unsubstantiated nonsense? Go tell that to the new generations of young people rotting in front of smartphones with apps engineered to keep them docile, compliable and addicted. A few taps is all you need to watch nostalgia-riddled reboot slop flicks. Or you can doomscroll for six hours staring at braindead streamers pretending to be NPCs repeating the same lines over and over for views, likes and money. If that's what you fill your time with, then I'm not sure I'd call it a good use of our precious lives. Humans adapt, but it doesn't mean that they're evolving for the better.
Cannot relate to wanting a simpler life, or wanting to live 50 years ago lol.
Fair enough, some people just want to live in a time where life was simpler.
Same here. The present and the future give me more hope. Happiness can only be found within yourself. To be honest, a farm life, which not everyone was doing, would get boring and grindy very fast. During my time at college and university, I worked in a factory weighing herbs and mixing salads. I would never want to do that again. Programming is a much more fulfilling job. Bear in mind that fifty years ago, the majority of people were in factories. It feels like I wasted a chunk of my life at that job and still feel sad about it. My uncle also worked on a farm as a manager. He was looking after chickens and apparently hated it. During the winter, it was wet and cold, and he had to do manual labor every day. Being a farmer and being fifty years in the past is just a fantasy you imagined in your head. You did not expect any of it. When I was a kid, I thought it would be so cool to work and buy myself whatever I wanted, but now it doesn't feel so fun anymore. Although I love my programming job, nothing beats a carefree childhood. A lot of people think it's better on the other side, but that is mostly cope
I certainly can
Dude you need to mix your audio better. I’m hearing disgusting mouth sounds every 5-10 seconds. Love the video and topic but will not be finishing the video because i hate those noises.
sucks, not a lot of vids like this out there but i can’t ignore it
Love the jab at the simmer nonsense fake food ads
Convenience is real, most women don't want a man without a car. How sad.
Shallow world.
I recently went back to uni to finish my maths degree. And yet I enjoyed my depressing warehouse job more.
the script was a little meandering and repetitive