As silly as it may sound, my mid-step towards a non-consumerist mindset was pivoting my diet towards more fresh produce and going to the market more often. You can get all the “new season” veggies every second week, but if you buy too much you’ll have to throw out rotting veggies. Learning the balance takes a while and it’s a good exercise to only buy what you need.
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For anyone interested: Welcome to Night Bale is a great horror/surrealist podcast. Definitely recommend
The lack of bedsheets really gets to me, more than anything else. I’m okay with minimalism, but sleeping on the same fabric all the time without being able to clean it… not great.
Personally, I found work to also be an avenue to meet friends. You already share so much time together, it’s easy to build routines and find some common interests over time. There is less risk that in other settings, so if you don’t immediately click it’s no big deal and everybody likes a mildly positive and extrovert coworker (emphasis on mildly: either you strike up a conversation or you shield them from having to take part in one). Then friends of friends is the way to expand the circle
There is no reason to build it at the bottom it would be equally effective build anywhere underwater
Always nice to see comments putting the info into a larger pattern, thanks!
This comment convinced me to read it! And… maybe not the dumbest but quite up there.
Gorgeous, would love to eat it… too much effort!
It really depends on what you mean by individualistic vs collectivist.
[massive generalization warning] Progressives think that the society should take care of a lot of problems (poverty, environment, equal access to education and what not), so you can consider them collectivists. But often the reason for that is such that the individual can achieve their own goals, thus they can be considered individualists.
Conservatives strive towards a uniform society, so they care about a uniform collective. In the other hand, they do that to support individual developments (mostly economical) in an evened out landscape. So they are also a mix of individualists and collectivists, they put the boundary between the two in a different place.
I’m trying really hard to emulate your Dad. In particular with almost-not-good-anymore fresh veggies
Guess my ego is strong enough to know that my readiness in college and finding jobs was highly dependent on the support my family gave me…
How is it not luck that my parents cared about my academic success from early in life? That I didn’t need to have a side job during college? Or the more subtle knowing that, whatever happened, I was always welcome back home, so I could take more risky career moves without fearing to end up in the streets?
Sure, I “worked hard”, aka studied in college, applied for a bunch of jobs, applied myself in those jobs and had the luck (again!) that my effort was rewarded. I know rich kids that took too much for granted and didn’t get very far. But they still have a roof over their head and as many warm meals as they feel like.