<story><title>7% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they?</title><url>https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/04/02/7-of-americans-dont-use-the-internet-who-are-they/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ramraj07</author><text>People always bring up how people in Fiji or the Carribean are so happy and not stressed, and I’m not sure what the message is. Of course if you just want to relax and not worry too much about what you want to accomplish in life then yeah go to some corner of the world and live happily? However for a lot of people that’s not what they want out of their lives; they want it to mean something in their own way. Of course the vast majority get lost in the rat race and forget what it is that made them choose to work their ass of to begin with, but it’s not because their ultimate goal (at least in the beginning) was to chill at the beach.</text></item><item><author>random5634</author><text>I used to work in the Caribbean when internet there was ridiculously expensive.&lt;p&gt;Local social life was fantastic - I missed nothing about the internet. Also - I missed nothing about not keeping up to date on latest news - locals just didn&amp;#x27;t care what was going on for the most part - the latest &amp;quot;outrages&amp;quot; were 100% irrelevant. If you went to bar at night, and IF they had a TV on, it was sports.&lt;p&gt;So you&amp;#x27;d come back to the states - and you&amp;#x27;d have to catchup on everyone who had said terrible things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lolinder</author><text>You miss the OP&amp;#x27;s point. They&amp;#x27;re talking about a specific aspect of culture in the Carribean, where they &lt;i&gt;worked&lt;/i&gt; for a while, not about idyllic lifelong vacations. While there, they found that separation from the internet reduced the amount of outrage they felt.&lt;p&gt;Unless you&amp;#x27;re suggesting that social media outrage is productive and helps people to accomplish something meaningful in their own way, you&amp;#x27;re not actually addressing the OP&amp;#x27;s comment, you&amp;#x27;re addressing an unrelated idea that you&amp;#x27;ve heard in the past.</text></comment>
<story><title>7% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they?</title><url>https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/04/02/7-of-americans-dont-use-the-internet-who-are-they/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ramraj07</author><text>People always bring up how people in Fiji or the Carribean are so happy and not stressed, and I’m not sure what the message is. Of course if you just want to relax and not worry too much about what you want to accomplish in life then yeah go to some corner of the world and live happily? However for a lot of people that’s not what they want out of their lives; they want it to mean something in their own way. Of course the vast majority get lost in the rat race and forget what it is that made them choose to work their ass of to begin with, but it’s not because their ultimate goal (at least in the beginning) was to chill at the beach.</text></item><item><author>random5634</author><text>I used to work in the Caribbean when internet there was ridiculously expensive.&lt;p&gt;Local social life was fantastic - I missed nothing about the internet. Also - I missed nothing about not keeping up to date on latest news - locals just didn&amp;#x27;t care what was going on for the most part - the latest &amp;quot;outrages&amp;quot; were 100% irrelevant. If you went to bar at night, and IF they had a TV on, it was sports.&lt;p&gt;So you&amp;#x27;d come back to the states - and you&amp;#x27;d have to catchup on everyone who had said terrible things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>random5634</author><text>I think instead of saying it&amp;#x27;s relaxed, I would describe it as very local?&lt;p&gt;Folks work pretty hard in Caribbean, but when I was there (a fair while ago), I also worked dang hard. But you absolutely felt like you were in a bubble. You really could imagine that Israel and the Palestinians would have an intifada &amp;#x2F; war and no one would notice.&lt;p&gt;You drank after work with the folks you worked with (in west this is a no no for many good reasons), you ate larger group meals, you spent a lot more time outside. I&amp;#x27;m just spitballing some impressions. Some of this was efficiency, (group meals are more cost effective?) etc.&lt;p&gt;There is also an attitude difference. There is a story (probably made up - please fill in correct details) that a group &amp;quot;conquered&amp;quot; one of the islands (maybe Saba?). They took over whatever building, raised whatever flag. And everyone just ignored them. They eventually left.&lt;p&gt;One thing that&amp;#x27;s an adjustment is ignoring the rules if they are silly - no one thinks anything of it. And yes, in part because of corruption and rent seeking there are some silly rules so maybe you have to.&lt;p&gt;Absolute downsides as well no question. But I wonder if the folks not on internet just don&amp;#x27;t care as much about what someone said to someone as the rest of us.</text></comment>