i got this meme from @internetsavedme2 on instagram

  • @[email protected]
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    301 year ago

    I get that life is safer, cleaner, and more comfortable for almost everyone on earth.

    But, I wish I could decide to spend a few months not working and living in the mountains or jungle without any serious work or financial repercussions.

    My wife and I are at a place where we have a long term plan to save and buy land away from the city.

    I can’t wait until I’m out in the country side and and can go outside to nature rather than concrete.

    • DeGandalf
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      151 year ago

      without any serious work

      this part sadly only works, if you’ve already worked your ass off beforehand.

        • @ShittyRedditWasBetter
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          11 year ago

          Meh, you can be pretty middle class and afford to take a month or two off of work.

          I could do it with my PTO if I really wanted.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            “worked your ass off beforehand”

            Criticism potentially not valid if you’ve tricked a corporation to pay you to shitpost.

            • @ShittyRedditWasBetter
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              -21 year ago

              👌👍 cope with the reality that 30% of the country are home owners with wealth and not living week to week.

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                  1 year ago

                  The best part is there’s a lot more ignorance and disingenunity in the statement than that.

                  Unless he’s just saying homeowners don’t work hard for what they have.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        That’s kind of the point, though. The fact that you can’t just…live in the world without participating in a destructive and exploitative economic system first is disgusting and immeasurably immoral and unethical.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      That sounds wonderful. I often fantasize about living on a mountain side in a cottage with a porch where I sit with my wife on a crisp morning, just enjoying the sun rise, a coffee and the comfort of being in the moment with my closet ally on earth.

      I wish I had the money to do that someday.

      I congratulate you and your wife to make a dream come true. I believe, if you long so much and can make it happen, it will be worth it and it is something to work for.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Sorry to mislead, we are far from the dream. But we have a plan at the very least and we can, for the first time, really see a path to get there. We still have years and years to go.

    • mommykink
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      01 year ago

      Precisely. Entirely too rough of terrain.

      What this place really needs is some nice rental properties. Pave some roads going all over the mountains and boom, easy $500/night

    • @[email protected]
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      01 year ago

      That’s exactly right… For now.

      But if there’s coal in that mountain, we can level the whole thing like they do in West Virginia and leave a nice flat spot for an industrial park when we’re done.

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    91 year ago

    Urf, one of the candidates for mayor of the region where I live said that if they won they’d make an industrial park to encourage jobs … a third of the municipality is a nature reserve, half of it is a literal mountain, and the remainder is small farms. There are no roads big enough for a full size lorry, and there’s a large industrial estate in the valley below which provides lots of jobs.

    It just made me wonder if they were that corrupt or simply on drugs.

  • terwn43lp
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    61 year ago

    needs an Amazon warehouse and a super highway

  • @Adalast
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    61 year ago

    I get the point, but I am also obsessed with automation games, so you it says that and I’m like “oh, I can put the hub over there, and a tower on that mountain so I can get a good look at the factory in the valley. Oh, and I hope there is a good water source over around that bend I can put oil there.”

    There may be something wrong with me.

    • @Rednax
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      21 year ago

      Such thoughts can be very Satisfactory indeed.

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    51 year ago

    Developers/board members/politicians. It always has to be growth with them until everywhere is the same suburban hell.

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    1 year ago

    William Cronon’s “The Trouble with Wilderness” should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in conservation or environmental science. It’s a great critique of how colonialism has tainted our understanding of what “wilderness” and nature in general is and humanity’s role in them.

    More info: https://blogs.ubc.ca/greenbeansbigdreams/2016/09/10/the-trouble-with-wilderness-a-critique-of-modern-environmentalism-by-william-cronon/

    Read it here: https://faculty.washington.edu/timbillo/Readings and documents/Wilderness/Cronon The trouble with Wilderness.pdf

  • Phoenixz
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    41 year ago

    Colonialists? You mean “locals” don’t have either needs for industries that support human life, or just plain assholes that’ll needlessly destroy nature for profit?