Lol it ' s running in the 90 s . Thank you so much , that was driving me nuts . <| sep |> What ' s the secret sauce that allows millions of people to be content living these tedious , dronelike lives ? Is it really the very small portion of the day that they get to spend with friends or work on their hobbies ? Because that doesn ' t seem to be nearly enough incentive to me . but god put us on the planet to suffer and die . wait a minutebecause then society would end if we all stopped and we cant cuz life is precious according to jesus . hold onbut evolution ? In seriousness , I think mostly everyone has to depress themselves to stay sane . They have to . Because I agree , there ' s no way someone stays sane coming home from work , watching tv for 4 hours until they sleep for 5 days out of the week . They depress themselves into their bubble . They depress their desires until they ' re convinced they ' re happy . Not everyone , but a lot of people . There ' s also the delusion of progress . As if they are somehow advancing humanity to something great when in reality , we are humans doing human things . There ' s nothing else . We create the problems and call cleaning up our problems progress . Janitor duty is progress apparently . But there are people who think that what they do is super duper important and therefore they are super important and their live is worth it . It ' s why people have kids . To give their life meaning they have to create a mess they can mop up right in front of them and feel good about . Kids are so naive , they immediately attach to their parents and the parent can feel loved and important . They can feel like they did something great when all they did is sentence the kid to the same problems years later . Parents can be vampires sucking energy from their kids neediness . There ' s some motivation and merit in spending your time trying to help others . But they pay ain ' t great . It ' s pretty shitty actually . I graduated with a physics undergrad and looked at the internship options , the options for grad school it was so bleak . Sit on a computer coding all day or in a lab doing minor experimentation like you describe . How was spending the next 40 years in a lab writing papers that barely anyone cares about something to be excited about ? Maybe I could ' ve worked on making capacitors more efficient or something but most work that physicists do just doesn ' t see that much use in real life . Now I ' ve started looking into repairs . Something where I can maybe travel and help people out with problems . Going to people ' s houses and helping out . At least there ' s some variety and you ' re helping others . There ' s merit in it . Reducing problems even if it ' s just minor . The most important thing you can do is educate others on the important stuff . Like the topics you wrote about . Except it doesn ' t pay . Spreading awareness of futility doesn ' t pay no one wants to buy that . They ' d rather buy the religious crap that makes them feel warm and gooey . No one wants to buy righttodie , antinatalism , or anything of the sort . Depressing concepts , however true , don ' t sell but it ' s the most important thing to sell .