Whenever humans want to pass judgement on their quality of life, they look to their left and right, to the people above and below them, to their children's generation and how much better their live would be than their own. However, all these people fail to look in the direction that matters, which is backwards at the hellscape that they have developed and been born beyond.
90% of humans in the world will never know what missing a meal because you have no money feels like.
For the average human alive today, they are not expected to work till the age of 18, surviving on free gibs for the first 18 years, and expect to retire by 65, which gives the average person 7 more years of not having to worry about working every day to stay alive. In total for 25 years out of 72 years of existence, the average human doesn't have to work to keep themselves alive. 33% of their lives spent just chilling, and even in the working ages, they get two days out of the seven days of the week off. Which is 13.42 additional years of time spent not working. That is a total of 38.42 years of a persons life, or more than 50% of a persons life where they are not working through a day to support themselves, and we aren't even including the vacation time here.
Meanwhile, we look at the animal kingdom, and you are lucky if half your progeny survive to adulthood. You drink dirty water and raw food that shortens your lifespan to a few decades at most, generally 20-30 years time if you are very lucky. Every day is a struggle. Energy needs to be conserved 24/7. You are either acquiring short term resources until those run out and you have to hunt or scavenge again, or you are resting and conserving energy for the next hunt or scavenging mission. You do not have the time, intelligence, or resources to make things better, to make things easier. You simply are born into the life you will live and you die with nothing changing for those that will come after you.
It is only in the human realm that the worst deal you can get is that 10 years down the line things will be better. Even in your worst case scenario, quality of life moves from complete shit to slightly less shit, and your kid will always grow up with a slightly better shirt than you did, even in the worst scenarios, for 90-99% of mankind.
Yet all we hear day in and day out is how bad life is. How meaningless existence is. How everybody is being taken advantage of every single step of the way. How there is nothing worth working for.
All of it is bullshit. The whining of manchildren who cannot appreciate how good they have it, because they can only compare their life to their neighbors and their betters, and live every day insecure in the knowledge that somebody better exists out there.
That is why the west so often relies on foreign labor and immigrants now, because the third worlder is the last group of humans left who can appreciate living in the developed society enough to agree to "suffering" through the lesser paradise where things will still continue to keep getting better for his children over time.
Meanwhile the average westoid is resentful of the best quality of life provided to him on the planet, where because of cost disease, he can flip burgers and still get paid 10x more than another person putting in the same skills and twice the effort in the third world. Providing the westoid with a far better quality of life. Is he grateful for it though? No. Never. Because all he knows is that there are people better than him on the planet. Incapable of embracing a utopia even when he was born into it, because he didn't get the throne.
This is the true tragedy of the modern times. A people living as the superior species on the planet with things getting better forever, but instead of finding joy and optimism in this stability, they only find a lifelong insecurity, forever left feeling like they can never be enough.
That is the tragedy of the developed world. An entire society drowning in the mental illness of lifelong insecurity, and it will be the death of them unless they make peace with their existence and accept that a forever improving life is good enough to be worth living, no matter what position you live it from.
Conclusion:
Be grateful for the life lived that will always end better than how it started. Be forever grateful for being born into times where you need not fight your own in a desperate bid to snatch the last slice of bread. Be grateful that you are born into times where you have the time to question the why of things rather than an entire life spent just surviving. Live your best life, and be free of guilt for it, for as long as the world moves forward, you are living a good life worth living.
@jackie would you check whether 4chan likes this post in exchange for 500 dc?
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There was an episode of Transformers Beast Wars about this
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Explain.
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So a bunch of aliens called the Vok turned ancient Earth into an experiment for Energon based technology. They also built defenses on Earth including a floating island called the Brigadoon
Millions of years in the future, two teams of Maximals and Predacons — descendants of the Autobots and Decepticons — would travel back in time to prehistoric Earth and continue these BEAST WARS while stranded there. On that note, Transformers reproduce with blank slates called protoforms, and the Maximal ship — hastily assigned the task of engaging the Predacons because no other ships were around — was like a mobile nursery. Battle damage caused them to not only eject the protoforms over Earth, it also made the protoforms erratic and buggy
Because of the Vok Energon radiation, Transformers could not function on Earth without overloading unless they took on partially organic BEAST FORMS. Meanwhile, the protoforms also took on beast forms as an automatic safety measure, but because they weren't ready to properly come online yet, they actually downloaded the "personalities" of local fauna and ended up quite different from the "civilized" Transformers born on Cybertron
Tigatron was one such protoform who turned into a tiger and became a noble Maximal warrior/hippy. He appreciated the nature of earth far more than his Cybertronian brethren
When the evil Predacon leader Megatron tried to take control of the Vok technology on the Brigadoon, the Maximals sortied to stop him, and the Brigadoon was destroyed in the crossfire. This caused great lamentation for Tigatron, as he mourned that the organic plant life there perished because of their conflict
An important lesson for the real world about the destructiveness of war and the folly of
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I didn't actually read your OP btw
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good effort. thank you for the clarification.
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