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  • dukeofdummies@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What's the deal with male loneliness?English
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    1 day ago

    I don’t even think it’s an exclusively male thing. It’s just getting harder and harder to meet people and mingle. Men are just feeling it harder and sooner.

    It’s harder to meet people now. I think part of it is:

    1. That people used to be bored. You would make entertainment where you could find it, and two bored people can rapidly get entertained. Now you have a phone that makes you not bored, and de-incentivizes face to face interaction.

    2. There used to be more places where people interacted. Masons, elk lodge, unions, they would often serve alcohol at events, for dirt cheap. They were known as third places, somewhere other than work and home. One thing I hear from a lot of smokers is that the smoking areas are where people hang out to talk, and they do. It’s where conversations happen at a club. It gives you something to do when you’re not talking, a reason to stand somewhere close to people, and a perfect excuse to jump into a conversation. It’s kinda infuriating that it also shaves two minutes off your life -_-.

    3. People have less time. Younger generations are working multiple jobs, gigs with unpredictable hours, often times having commutes of an hour which turns a 9 to 5 into an 8 to 6, and spending all their vacation hours on the shit that has to be done on a weekday like the DMV or the like. How are you supposed to make a friend when schedules differ so much that a spreadsheet is required to make it work?

  • dukeofdummies@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•LegalEagle Suing PayPal's HoneyEnglish
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    3 days ago

    You don’t share food if you’re starving. You don’t share time if you work 12 hour days, every day.

    If you spend all your energy on survival, you got no energy to spare on anyone else. I bet our hypothetical starving person would be moral and share, if they had the chance and materials.

    If they don’t… then it’s not a matter of won’t it’s can’t. People are more likely to share food they have excess of, time they have excess of. If they can’t spare it, they won’t.

  • dukeofdummies@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•LegalEagle Suing PayPal's HoneyEnglish
    333·
    3 days ago

    I’m not. What do you get as a reward for blowing the whistle? Genuinely?

    1. There’s no bounty, even if there was you wouldn’t get it for at least a year after you blow the whistle.

    2. Once it’s discovered it’s you, you’re fired. There goes your paycheck, your health insurance. Now your home is in jeopardy and you have no decent income verification to get a new one.

    3. Good luck working in any job even remotely related to what you know. You now have a stigma in any background check and while a privately owned mom & pop might look at you favorably, there ain’t a single corporation who will take pride in hiring you. You’re risky.

    The most ethical person, is one with no debt, who owns their home, and has 8 months expenses saved up. That’s not most Americans right now.