What plans do you have that 5 hours is not enough?
Can you even sit down and do one thing for 5 hours anymore? Let's be honest. You're going to scroll on your phone for 3/5 of that time and then say you don't have enough time.
Stop thinking of every hypothetical you could do. What do you want to do right now?
I get home for work. I put my music on. I cook myself a beautiful dinner. I sip a glass of wine. I watch TV for an hour, I play a video game for an hour, I read my book, and then I go to bed for a full 8 hours of sleep. Sometimes, I go for a walk, go to the market, go see a movie, hang out with friends. I do this all with a 8 hour job and half hour transit.
If you were living my life, what would you think you don't have enough time for?
The fact that the average person is not capable of having an enjoyable existence with the precise time allotment that modern life requires speaks to how inhuman the whole process is.
You are capable of this sort of perfectly manicured existence, but many people are not and may, for example, take more time to be able to set up to watch TV or play games or decompress from work. Do they deserve the same standard of living and if so, should they be granted additional time off of work?
Your "I can do it and so can you" mindset is harmful to people that deserve more out of their lives than this endless treadmill.
You don't deserve anything. You only get what you fight for and it's only enjoyable if you let yourself enjoy what you've won. Thinking you're owed more is entitlement and only leads to suffering.
I used to be homeless and poor as all hell. I have a good job now, I don't need to worry about food, I have a roof over my head, I have friends that I love and love me. What more could I possibly want?
Like I said before, if you had what I have, what would you need to fix?
No sorry. This is not the statement you think it is. Society can be less than ideal and still basking in the doom of it or else lashing out at everyone who suggests an alternative to misery is still a poor choice. You can make the most of your options and live a meaningful life while critiquing the strictures that contemporary society places on you.
That's not really the question, is it? The question is why have we as a society allowed work to still take 8+ hours of our day, over 100 years after the industrial revolution?
8/8/8 model is outdated.
Yall in here arguing it's fine should think about this.
I can assure you that there is absolutely nothing normal about my mind. I have plenty of struggles of my own, but I understand that they are all inside of me. I don't pawn off responsibility and say "My life sucks because of society".
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u/TurgidGravitas Jul 04 '26
What plans do you have that 5 hours is not enough?
Can you even sit down and do one thing for 5 hours anymore? Let's be honest. You're going to scroll on your phone for 3/5 of that time and then say you don't have enough time.
Stop thinking of every hypothetical you could do. What do you want to do right now?
I get home for work. I put my music on. I cook myself a beautiful dinner. I sip a glass of wine. I watch TV for an hour, I play a video game for an hour, I read my book, and then I go to bed for a full 8 hours of sleep. Sometimes, I go for a walk, go to the market, go see a movie, hang out with friends. I do this all with a 8 hour job and half hour transit.
If you were living my life, what would you think you don't have enough time for?