People existed before money, and they can exist after it.

Come with me, and you’ll be, in a wooooorld of pure imagination!

Maybe. It depends on the situation. If I’m feeling anxious to the point where it is hindering my ability to enjoy existing then I use that as the trigger to take action. First step for me is usually identifying the source of my anxiety. Sometimes this is easy, but sometimes this is the most difficult part. I do this by using a combination of thinking and movement. Am I sitting at my desk? Maybe I should get up and stretch. Am I pacing back and forth? Maybe I should sit and start writing my feelings/thoughts down.

Once I’ve identified the source of my anxiety I use the knowledge and experience I’ve accumulated up to this point to determine a strategy for dealing with the source of my anxiety.

For example: I might be feeling anxious on a Saturday night because I’m home alone watching anime and I feel like I’m wasting my life. If I truly believe my anxiety arises from a feeling of not doing or engaging with anything in a meaningful way, then that gives me a direction to move in. What’s something I can do that feels meaningful? Maybe the answer is to call my brother, or leave my apartment and take a walk, or read a book. The answer can be whatever “feels” right. And if nothing feels right then I dig a layer deeper and repeat the process.

This too shall pass. Try to enjoy the process of transitioning from one rhythm to the next.

Don’t worry trainer, you can always get back together in a big ol’ group of all your friends and between everyone we’ll be able to figure out all their names. :)

I used to be in this meme, now I read it and feel a certain sense of relief that I’m becoming a little bit more like the person I want to be.

If you want to talk about anything you’ve got people here who want to listen to you.

Agreed! I apologize, I didn’t mean “love” in the interpersonal relationship sense. I meant it more in The Beatles “All You Need is Love” sense.

I hate when people don’t realize love is powerful enough to make people question everything, including themselves.

My bad, I meant the activity depicted in the picture (popping a wheelie to try to impress a girl) could easily be from a pre-internet time.

Right, I guess I mean I don’t see how the sentiment of wanting to show off for ladies has really changed that much post internet. To me this picture speaks more towards how motorcycles impacted simping, and I’m pretty sure that’s the whole reason motorcycles were invented.

In what way? Guys popping wheelies to impress girls was definitely a thing before the internet. I’m pretty sure that’s why the wheelie was invented.

Sometimes it’s just fun to write fanfic regardless of who you think is stronger. If the characters have strong motivations good stories are bound to unfold.

God’s priorities are weird, but they make me feel seen. :)

Mystery exists outside of the simple world of “good” and “bad”.

During the AI goldrush you can make your fortune selling bookshelves.

Can’t blame you. I put a Windows PC together again just so I could play Helldivers 2 a bit more consistently. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to enjoy your leisure time.

You’re all over the place, but I personally believe the biggest issue is people look at economic systems and ask things like “how can we maximize our production and consumption power?”

The “solution” is for everyone to come to an agreement on how much of something is “enough” and work forward from that baseline. This is incredibly difficult because people have different priorities, and getting people to agree on how much food, fuel, and infrastructure should be produced and consumed per capita would be a huge challenge. Capitalist economic systems allow people to more easily distance themselves from the moral problem of greed by saying things like “If I can make $5,000 that means I earned the right to consume $5,000 worth of goods.” But the real world “value” of making $5,000 from construction work on housing is vastly different than the value produced from selling a $5,000 NFT.

“There’s no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism so fuck everyone.”

I think the questions you’re asking require the oversimplification of the real world to the point where even if someone gave you an “answer” it would be close to meaningless. Specifically, not everyones looks at changing geographic locations through a lens of pure economics.

There would still be class, but it would be based on things like social status and education instead of financial status.