• Evehn@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      “Need to feel useful” feels like an altruistic decision. I believe most of these people are all but that.

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        What I meant is a retiree crisis. You have been working for 40/50 odd years, and all of a sudden you loose the one thing that gave structure to your life.

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          Right, like my father who only now has been forced to retire at 70 after a covid induced blood clot behind his eye took his vision. He only had the one good eye after an accident in his teens blinded the other, and he doesn’t complain about the near total blindness, he complains about the boredom from lack of stuff to do.

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            Maybe he should run for office? With a resume like that I bet he could at least score a seat in the house of representatives

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        The need to feel useful isn’t really altruistic. Sure, it can be, but the vast majority of the time it’s a selfish urge to satisfy one’s own dopamine rush of accomplishment mixed with “I’m the only one who can do this” thoughts. Throw in a dash of mental illness and a sprinkling of “this is how we did it in the good ole days”, and it’s more harm than help.

    • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works
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      Maybe we can increase the laughing stock factor so there’s less of a pull. Maybe then they’ll have some better candidates?

      To be fair, after trump biden has a big act to follow and going for a nap hardly cuts the mustard…

      I don’t think it’ll work with the batshit crazy politics the us has, just fuels the division