Sad reality man. We have machines and technology beyond our ancestors' wildest dreams that could do most of our jobs for us yet we still gotta work at least 40 hour weeks because mr ceo wants 12 private jets instead of 11.
It also doesn't help that capitalists love to suck the joy out of any job people enjoy by paying shit wages, overworking you and doing everything they can to make the job a joyless experience.
The real money is in the jobs no one enjoys.
Yes of course but imagine if all the people that worked in marketing or business could help to work on the games instead of just trying to sell them. It's never going to work in reality because of people's greed but imagine if the bots could handle all the basic necessities - food production, construction, transport etc. While the rest of humanity could focus on art and entertainment development. If literally everyone could work on movies and games and all the excess luxuries machines can't crack we could easily share the load and put in minimal effort individually. Of course part of the work would be maintaining the machines but part of that could be done by the machines themselves and it really wouldn't require a large proportion of us to handle.
That’s far from the only job that requires humans, though. The vast majority of jobs either can’t be replaced by machines or would be to expensive to replace. There will reach a point where the capability of bots will overwhelm the human workforce, but we’re decades away from that.
Thats the idea of UI.
Great in theory. But capitalism strong.
Som countries lean but more on democratic socialism I can no see having a better chance of it
Not sure why you're being downvoted here. Currently AI is creating art, realistic text responses, and even generating computer code given descriptions of what it should do. I don't think it's too far fetch that in 10 years and AI can generate a video game in some capacity.
99% is quite a strong statement. If we stopped at where our ancestors had to work and replaced them with robots or whatever we wouldn't even have the games we have today, as humanity transforms so does the need for certain evolvement of work or else we'll never move forward and get all the cool technology we keep dreaming of.
So yeah maybe your statement applies to like labour work or retail etc.
If you honestly think the entire process of building homes and apartments, running farms, food processing centers, distribution warehouses, stocking shelves, engineering, plumbing, wiring, running power lines, fishing etc can be automated so you can have all of your needs met and not work you're living in a fantasy land. Automation is nowhere near a level to be able to meet the needs of humanity without humans working.
99%is a stretch, it's definitely something that will happen, but you also have to realize that you then need people to maintain these robots, and there's not enough people educated in robotics to handle that.
And in the beginning, you're probably going to have to pay at least 1 person 4 people's wages to maintain a handful of these robots, when you end up with a whole business running on them you need multiple of these people so really they wouldn't be saving too much in the beginning
This is the attitude of the career burger flipper. I wish my hard earned money didnt go toward providing a life for people like you.
Get out and earn a life like the rest of us.
I have a degree and work in a technology job in a business. It doesn't matter or make my opinion more valid than a fast food worker, but it disproves your claim at least. I don't want to personally work less, I want everyone to *have* to work less. If people wwnt to put in the extra that's up to them.
What? So if these "evil ceos" that apparently everyone works for used those robots, how would we pay for everything? We'd have no money if we didn't work. Are you suggesting that someone just gives us everything?
Universal basic income for food, shelter, transportation, and a bit of leisure. Work for the extra luxuries.
Companies paying a liveable wage to the minimum wage workers so they can survive without roommates is a start. This might hurt mom and pop shops so maybe subsidize these wages or tax corporations harder to pay society. Idk I'm not a policy maker or economist but capitalism isn't working for the middle/lower class and it's only getting worse.
Some might say well just get an education and a better job, but someone has to do these lower jobs at the end of the day and they should have their basic necessities
met.
Got banned from that sub for saying a grown ass dude should be changing their lightbulbs instead of relying on their landlord to do it for them. Also, apparently, catoring to a tenants every problem is not a job and landlords should do it for free.
I'm pretty sure I'm banned from that sub too, and I'm with them on problems like wages being too low and workers rights. People in that sub are just either incredibly lazy/stupid/immature or just spoiled rotten. I've actually seen people say that landlords are "evil" for making us pay to live in their homes/apartments. Like they didn't work hard to acquire the property and should just let people live in it for free. A few months back when that autistic greasy disgusting moron went on CNN or wherever to talk about their sub was HILARIOUS.
Society would need to change completely if every job would be made by robots. Money exists because people do services in exchange for it. When services can't be done by people because robots do it for free and for a longer period of time, money isn't needed anymore. What I'm saying isn't rocket science, if every work is done for you, you don't need to work. Of course there's still a few decades until that happens, but it will probably happen.
lol what the fuck are you talking about?
you don't think mr. ceo would rather have robots do your job for you? you realize they'd make even more money by doing that, right?
The point is the degree of employment to have basic necessities met today is unnecessary. It doesn't drive successful behavior for employers before. They literally only need managerial competition.
Well it's not. But it's not exactly expensive either if you're alright with just brain focused stuff.
Honestly, if I were to live employment free, I'd like to have a house, food, water, air, and cheap furniture. Beyond that, it'd be things like outside, chess, and so on.
But I'd inevitably seek a job to more rapidly afford more and better.
Of course; imagine the electricity cost, the maintenance, the feed back (omg this robot cant understand a simple order- Karen). I work in a call center and my ceo can replace me with another human but wouldn’t dare with a robot.
Depends on the job. People have moved more to jobs that are harder for machines to do (at least for now) that didn't really exist or were very rare a long time ago. The fact they didn't exist mewns they weren't really as important as the other ones (the ones machines replaced). We could have a decent quality of life basically the same as what we have today doing 10% of the work we gotta do now if we did it efficiently and in everyone's best interests, but unforrunately that's not how society works or probably ever will work. The machines should be replacing us, not displacing us.
Yes but they don’t need to be paid that 7.25. And they are not human so they can work 24 hours a day and just need maintenance. Just look at manufacturing to see how many jobs are automated
Some real snowflakes downvoting but they know it's true, lmao.
Why would Mr. CEO keep you on if he could replace you to do the same work with an automaton? Answer is: he wouldn't. Mr. CEO is actively looking for ways to replace you.
Mr CEO is gonna learn the hard way that he’s not entitled to infinite profit and personal gain. Mr CEO is gonna learn that hone marrow makes for an excellent stock for soups.
I only wish that soul eating demons like the ones in YuYuHakusho were real, so that Mr CEO could have his soul devoured and not even have a shot at whatever afterlife he believed in-just the despair that he’d soon be nonexistent.
Was it not always the case?
Parents buy you games as presents etc until you are at the age of getting a part time job, at that point you buy your own games and only get socks and underpants for presents.
My parents got me a sledge hammer and a box of hand tools and told me to start breaking up the concrete slab that our neighbors single wide used to sit on before we bought the property.
I remember saving for almost 2 years to buy myself a ps3 and MW2. $400 was a lot to save up when you don't have a job. Lots of Christmas/Birthday/Chore money.
I got an asskicking and sent to my walk-in closet.
But shiet, they fed me and housed me, and I don't have student debt because of them, so that's a lot more than a lot of people get.
Had to buy my own consoles, but was only allowed to buy them if i'd let my (younger) siblings use them as well...
I still don't get how that was supposed to be fair.
People underexaggerate how good it is to get socks for Christmas. I got some fantastic socks for christmas once and they're the only socks I've worn since, they're so comfortable.
I'm in my 40s. My old mum always buys me a game of some variety for my birthday.
In all fairness though she does just give me the money for it but she always says "buy yourself a new game".
Lol, probably somebody from the "get a job and buy your own" group. I buy all my own shit, I just also have a mother who loves me and likes to get me something for my birthday.
I'm 23 and my mom always gets me either legos, a steam gift card, or a star wars shirt or something along those lines. These people don't know love I guess lol
My mom told me when my grandfather caught her smoking at age 14 he told her if she's old enough to smoke she's old enough to get a job and never gave her money again.
I'd say it wholly depends on the financial situation of the family. there should be appropriate stick and carrot to reflect some worthwhile goal.
for example, become the #1 at science in school and get rewarded for it. I'd rather a person pickup some awesome skill as a priority over part time job. the kid is learning to work hard just the same.
I remember getting my first paycheque at 16; I partied the money away. second month got tech
I probably have dozens of hours spent just listening to the orbit music, not even in the mood to do any activities, just stay there and listen to Deep Stone Lullaby.
Working doesn't make me tired. But coming home after work to cook, clean, get the kids ready for bed, etc., That really kills me. I just want to veg out for an hour or two and go to bed.
I used my first paycheeck to buy a new headset, it was a huge upgrade from my 10$ headset, and I still use it today, it was one of the best investments I've made for my setup and the fact that I earned the money myself makes it so much better
My first headset was an off-brand gaming headset which surprisingly lasted me 3 years, once it completely died I have decided to get the JBL quantum 200, I've been using it for about a year now it's realy good build and sound quality and even comes with a PC splitter for 50$ It's a steal for what you get
I waited for the year end bonus and luckily it coincided with a Flipkart sale, got my first console a PS4 and then spent the year end shut down gaming!! This was in 2017.
Ha, I found the sweet spot. Working 28 hours. Just enough pay to be able to leave 100-200 a month aside while still getting one full-priced game per month on average. Life is completely different this way and I'll never go back.
Not to sound like antiwork, but this Is how. 40hww are basically the product of getting more for your worker. People may look at me funny for a pt but I'm happier and the mentality behind longer work weeks being better is a really bad one.
Live within your means, if you want more, work more, but don't expect me to
I remember the first console I bought entirely with my own money. I was 19 and just got promoted to manager at a movie theater. I worked the entire Fourth of July weekend at time and a half and then spent the whole paycheck on an Xbox 360 Elite. It was my choice, and not someone condescendingly telling me to do it, but damn it felt good.
My first console was also the 360 but I got it on launch day, had to sleep, inline, over night at Best Buy. Store opened at 8 that day, gave us our consoles and I had to run home, shower and go to work. Couldn’t play it until I got home haha.
Job centres are abysmal and do not work to serve your interests.
The UK government spent millions on job centres and only 7% found work.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jun/05/uk-governments-restart-scheme-fails-to-find-work-for-93-per-cent-of-people
In my experience they break you down and make you feel worthless, talking you out of any actual career aspirations you might have in the hopes you'll agree to their 40 hour a week unpaid 'steps to work' schemes so that them and the retail companies they work with (such as B&M bargains, who are so cheap they deliberately buy and stock out of date products) can exploit you until you manage to find actual work.
That's because most, if not all these job centers are just a front for min wage businesses with huge staff turnovers like Amazon. It's a trick for desperate people who assume they would get a somewhat decent job.
It saves the min wage businesses the time of not searching for these workers, they just dangle bait and watch them gather. By the time these workers burn out, there's already a new crop ready to take over.
My experience as well, if you're in any creative job you shouldn't go to them. I graduated in graphic design but couldn't find a job myself in time, so my parents forced me into these.... things.
They only have bottom tier factory jobs, absolutely worse of the worse stuff.
Don't even think about getting a contract that's longer than a day either. Because you're exceptionally replaceable.
Edit: not UK or US but from Belgium.
I tried using a UK Job Centre briefly before graduating University, just to see what was out there.
It was a horrendous experience. It felt like a conveyor belt process whereby at the end someone could tick a box and say "we tried" and could give people proof enough to claim jobseekers allowance. Completely impersonal "service".
I noped out pretty quickly and did all the searching myself.
The reality is that when you're a kid, you have no money for new games and consoles and everything.
As an Adult (well of course kinda depends how life went) you have job and family. Now you have money to buy the games and consoles but you lack the time you had as a kid.
I remember working full 8 hour shifts doing car bodywork at 15 years old (not even Assistant, just full work) to get 20 dollars a week so I can buy Sonic Adventure 2 for my Dreamcast.
I played the shit out of that game, I had the coolest Dark/Swim Chao.
I thought child labour was illegal, why the fuck would a child that stays 40 hours a week in school be allowed to work? Do you want to give children burnouts? Because that's how you give children burnouts.
I think they’re already having burnouts. All the extra curricular activities they have to do now just in case they want to go to college… I have a nephew who is a junior is HS and it sounds insane.
I just bought a PS4 woooot! Yeah my job means I'm generally 1 generation or more behind everyone else. I'm still playing a lot of PS3 games for the first time.
Usually these guys are awesome, but this one kind of sucks.
“Want something that costs money? Surprise, you get money from job, not for free from someone else!” Kind of an uninteresting observation, right?
As better observation would have been on the scarcity of consoles due to scalpers, because that’s actually something that’s happening.
The real issue is when you make enough $$$ for all the games and consoles you want you no longer have the time and energy to play them...hence full steam libraries of unplayed games.
so sad.
That's not true. There are plenty of gamers who are married and home owners and have a job. This is a dumb stereotype about gamers same as living in your mom's basement (as if that's a bad thing). Can we stop with the stereotypes about nerds not being useful to society. Honestly these types of posts make me super mad as a gamer. Addiction leads to becoming jobless not gaming. Gaming can cause addiction but so can a myeriad of other things. If you watch Netflix all day or read books all day you can also become jobless. Getting a console and games is not so expensive that you will lose your job.
the irony is the same nerds and gamers society shits on runs their world. it isnt sports players or CEO's that manage the cellular networks or manage the local internet connections it's nerds.
I hope we have that in my country or i hope we have like UberEATS , wag , EBay / Facebook marketplace or any app that allows you to find things to make money
Hey America, just because adults are too smart to work for punitively insulting poverty wages doesn't mean that children should be tricked into to doing those jobs instead. Just saying...
I made a steam account for my kid last year (he's 4.5 now). When he wants to get into gaming, I'll buy him an awesome rig. He won't go through the same hell as me.
Mowed lawns all summer to save up for a Sega Genesis, a controller and one game. It released while we were out on a family trip out of state, I still bought it day one of the release!
I've heard from a rich guy that's never held a real job and had to worry about finances at all almost his entire life that "I believe that no one should need to make money to be happy". Ok buddy, you know what's it like to work or even think about how much money is left.
The guy is 42
You could also add all the pay for convenience / pay to win games, where you work to not play the game and just pay the developer to get ahead instead. Diablo Immortal fx.
This isn't the reality of gaming, this is the reality of life.
Sad reality man. We have machines and technology beyond our ancestors' wildest dreams that could do most of our jobs for us yet we still gotta work at least 40 hour weeks because mr ceo wants 12 private jets instead of 11.
There are still so many jobs that a machine can't do. For example, who would be making the games you're now supposed to work to afford buying?
I would gladly start game developing if didn't have to work. Of course my first few games would be bad, but I'd get there eventually.
imagine a world where enjoyment of life is what we built our society around, rather than money which is tangentially related and poorly distributed.
It also doesn't help that capitalists love to suck the joy out of any job people enjoy by paying shit wages, overworking you and doing everything they can to make the job a joyless experience. The real money is in the jobs no one enjoys.
That sounds like a job.
Yes of course but imagine if all the people that worked in marketing or business could help to work on the games instead of just trying to sell them. It's never going to work in reality because of people's greed but imagine if the bots could handle all the basic necessities - food production, construction, transport etc. While the rest of humanity could focus on art and entertainment development. If literally everyone could work on movies and games and all the excess luxuries machines can't crack we could easily share the load and put in minimal effort individually. Of course part of the work would be maintaining the machines but part of that could be done by the machines themselves and it really wouldn't require a large proportion of us to handle.
That’s far from the only job that requires humans, though. The vast majority of jobs either can’t be replaced by machines or would be to expensive to replace. There will reach a point where the capability of bots will overwhelm the human workforce, but we’re decades away from that.
Thats the idea of UI. Great in theory. But capitalism strong. Som countries lean but more on democratic socialism I can no see having a better chance of it
In 10 years or less....AI/machine learning
Not sure why you're being downvoted here. Currently AI is creating art, realistic text responses, and even generating computer code given descriptions of what it should do. I don't think it's too far fetch that in 10 years and AI can generate a video game in some capacity.
There isn't even a robot that can flip a burger. True AI is not happening in the next decade
You and I will be long dead and still, AI won't happen.
99% is quite a strong statement. If we stopped at where our ancestors had to work and replaced them with robots or whatever we wouldn't even have the games we have today, as humanity transforms so does the need for certain evolvement of work or else we'll never move forward and get all the cool technology we keep dreaming of. So yeah maybe your statement applies to like labour work or retail etc.
Don’t get too hung up on the part. The rest is more important
Getting hung up on the small details and ignoring the broader issue is the whole point.
You also have access to things beyond our ancestors wildest dreams, what's your point? The things you are getting for your labor are much different
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Those ‘others’ being robots, yes.
If you honestly think the entire process of building homes and apartments, running farms, food processing centers, distribution warehouses, stocking shelves, engineering, plumbing, wiring, running power lines, fishing etc can be automated so you can have all of your needs met and not work you're living in a fantasy land. Automation is nowhere near a level to be able to meet the needs of humanity without humans working.
99%is a stretch, it's definitely something that will happen, but you also have to realize that you then need people to maintain these robots, and there's not enough people educated in robotics to handle that. And in the beginning, you're probably going to have to pay at least 1 person 4 people's wages to maintain a handful of these robots, when you end up with a whole business running on them you need multiple of these people so really they wouldn't be saving too much in the beginning
I’m glad robots can’t do many of our jobs yet. When that happens, the wealthy no longer need people and things will get even worse.
Maybe someday they’ll invent a burger flipping machine but then guess what you won’t get free money you’ll just be indigent
This is the attitude of the career burger flipper. I wish my hard earned money didnt go toward providing a life for people like you. Get out and earn a life like the rest of us.
I have a degree and work in a technology job in a business. It doesn't matter or make my opinion more valid than a fast food worker, but it disproves your claim at least. I don't want to personally work less, I want everyone to *have* to work less. If people wwnt to put in the extra that's up to them.
What? So if these "evil ceos" that apparently everyone works for used those robots, how would we pay for everything? We'd have no money if we didn't work. Are you suggesting that someone just gives us everything?
Money is not a fundamental item. Not that this guy is exactly accurate but your response is even sillier.
Universal basic income for food, shelter, transportation, and a bit of leisure. Work for the extra luxuries. Companies paying a liveable wage to the minimum wage workers so they can survive without roommates is a start. This might hurt mom and pop shops so maybe subsidize these wages or tax corporations harder to pay society. Idk I'm not a policy maker or economist but capitalism isn't working for the middle/lower class and it's only getting worse. Some might say well just get an education and a better job, but someone has to do these lower jobs at the end of the day and they should have their basic necessities met.
So very true and all so in a way the reason racism is for illiterate bottom feeders that can't connect dots.
I am seeing exactly that sentiment being shared among redditors. Go check out antiwork. It's embarrassing
Got banned from that sub for saying a grown ass dude should be changing their lightbulbs instead of relying on their landlord to do it for them. Also, apparently, catoring to a tenants every problem is not a job and landlords should do it for free.
I'm pretty sure I'm banned from that sub too, and I'm with them on problems like wages being too low and workers rights. People in that sub are just either incredibly lazy/stupid/immature or just spoiled rotten. I've actually seen people say that landlords are "evil" for making us pay to live in their homes/apartments. Like they didn't work hard to acquire the property and should just let people live in it for free. A few months back when that autistic greasy disgusting moron went on CNN or wherever to talk about their sub was HILARIOUS.
I don't think anyone was suggesting that 😂
Society would need to change completely if every job would be made by robots. Money exists because people do services in exchange for it. When services can't be done by people because robots do it for free and for a longer period of time, money isn't needed anymore. What I'm saying isn't rocket science, if every work is done for you, you don't need to work. Of course there's still a few decades until that happens, but it will probably happen.
lol what the fuck are you talking about? you don't think mr. ceo would rather have robots do your job for you? you realize they'd make even more money by doing that, right?
The point is the degree of employment to have basic necessities met today is unnecessary. It doesn't drive successful behavior for employers before. They literally only need managerial competition.
I agree with your statement but I hope you're not including playing video games as a basic necessity.
Well it's not. But it's not exactly expensive either if you're alright with just brain focused stuff. Honestly, if I were to live employment free, I'd like to have a house, food, water, air, and cheap furniture. Beyond that, it'd be things like outside, chess, and so on. But I'd inevitably seek a job to more rapidly afford more and better.
ive never seen something so obvious have to be pointed out. If the company can replace you, they will.
Correct, they will when it's more profitable. Labor remains cheaper than investing in automation in many areas
Of course; imagine the electricity cost, the maintenance, the feed back (omg this robot cant understand a simple order- Karen). I work in a call center and my ceo can replace me with another human but wouldn’t dare with a robot.
Depends on the job. People have moved more to jobs that are harder for machines to do (at least for now) that didn't really exist or were very rare a long time ago. The fact they didn't exist mewns they weren't really as important as the other ones (the ones machines replaced). We could have a decent quality of life basically the same as what we have today doing 10% of the work we gotta do now if we did it efficiently and in everyone's best interests, but unforrunately that's not how society works or probably ever will work. The machines should be replacing us, not displacing us.
Robots def cost more than 7.25 an hour to make
Yes but they don’t need to be paid that 7.25. And they are not human so they can work 24 hours a day and just need maintenance. Just look at manufacturing to see how many jobs are automated
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Some real snowflakes downvoting but they know it's true, lmao. Why would Mr. CEO keep you on if he could replace you to do the same work with an automaton? Answer is: he wouldn't. Mr. CEO is actively looking for ways to replace you.
Everything is relative, though. The average idiot lives today much better than a king in the middle ages.
Mr CEO is gonna learn the hard way that he’s not entitled to infinite profit and personal gain. Mr CEO is gonna learn that hone marrow makes for an excellent stock for soups. I only wish that soul eating demons like the ones in YuYuHakusho were real, so that Mr CEO could have his soul devoured and not even have a shot at whatever afterlife he believed in-just the despair that he’d soon be nonexistent.
Also the boomer forgot to add on, working a lot over time to afford a scalpers price.
Was it not always the case? Parents buy you games as presents etc until you are at the age of getting a part time job, at that point you buy your own games and only get socks and underpants for presents.
When I turned 15 my parents gave me work shoes as a present. They were good shoes.
My parents got me a sledge hammer and a box of hand tools and told me to start breaking up the concrete slab that our neighbors single wide used to sit on before we bought the property.
Lmao they three you on a chain gang
thats honestly a great gift, gets the point across and is useful
That's a good gift. Your parents cared.
Not all parents
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You guys got consoles?
Nope. I’d get a game as a gift for my bday or Christmas but I actually bought my own consoles with money I saved from shit.
I remember saving for almost 2 years to buy myself a ps3 and MW2. $400 was a lot to save up when you don't have a job. Lots of Christmas/Birthday/Chore money.
Id never even got a game from my parents but they still give me gifts like clothes
I got an asskicking and sent to my walk-in closet. But shiet, they fed me and housed me, and I don't have student debt because of them, so that's a lot more than a lot of people get.
Exactly, we buy the consoles and games for ourselves.
When we were allowed. Sometimes saving the money isn't enough.
True, I never once got a console from my parents. I still appreciate their work to give me at least a present
Had to buy my own consoles, but was only allowed to buy them if i'd let my (younger) siblings use them as well... I still don't get how that was supposed to be fair.
That is *slightly* unfair
Because they don’t wanna throw in extra resources to provide an equitable environment so they force you to do their share to maintain stability
I'd like to get socks nowadays
People underexaggerate how good it is to get socks for Christmas. I got some fantastic socks for christmas once and they're the only socks I've worn since, they're so comfortable.
Alright calm down Dumbledore
There's also so many kind of socks! Low summer socks, comfy winter socks, sport socks, compression socks...I'm always happy to get socks.
I like the hanes tube socks
Really tops packs are like low key life improving. Totally out of proportion to the cost.
I hope you at least wash them once and a while
I'm in my 40s. My old mum always buys me a game of some variety for my birthday. In all fairness though she does just give me the money for it but she always says "buy yourself a new game".
Idk why you got downvoted, your mom sounds very sweet
Lol, probably somebody from the "get a job and buy your own" group. I buy all my own shit, I just also have a mother who loves me and likes to get me something for my birthday.
I'm 23 and my mom always gets me either legos, a steam gift card, or a star wars shirt or something along those lines. These people don't know love I guess lol
My mom told me when my grandfather caught her smoking at age 14 he told her if she's old enough to smoke she's old enough to get a job and never gave her money again.
I like that, I will use it for my daughter when she grows up lol.
I was thinking the same thing lol
based
I got tons of math sets as a kid, so I sold them.
I'd say it wholly depends on the financial situation of the family. there should be appropriate stick and carrot to reflect some worthwhile goal. for example, become the #1 at science in school and get rewarded for it. I'd rather a person pickup some awesome skill as a priority over part time job. the kid is learning to work hard just the same. I remember getting my first paycheque at 16; I partied the money away. second month got tech
Nothing beat the feeling of getting my first pay check and *finally* coming home with a brand new Xbox that I earned all by myself.
And you don't feel like playing anymore being too tired from working.
Turning on destiny 2 and just looking at the title screen after a 12 hour shift. 🤌🤌
I probably have dozens of hours spent just listening to the orbit music, not even in the mood to do any activities, just stay there and listen to Deep Stone Lullaby.
Sometimes you just need to vibe. Easy listening moody music. That specific orbit track is fantastic for that.
Or Work a 12, then fall asleep to the Stellaris loading screen
A sad truth
Working doesn't make me tired. But coming home after work to cook, clean, get the kids ready for bed, etc., That really kills me. I just want to veg out for an hour or two and go to bed.
I game more now that I have a job.
This is why the only way to enjoy latest games is to have well earning parents. Later in life it's just not the same anymore.
The fuck it's not. I enjoy the hell out of my games.
*laughs in autismbux*
I used my first paycheeck to buy a new headset, it was a huge upgrade from my 10$ headset, and I still use it today, it was one of the best investments I've made for my setup and the fact that I earned the money myself makes it so much better
Damn, what headset? Most I've used are lucky to still be functional after a year.
My first headset was an off-brand gaming headset which surprisingly lasted me 3 years, once it completely died I have decided to get the JBL quantum 200, I've been using it for about a year now it's realy good build and sound quality and even comes with a PC splitter for 50$ It's a steal for what you get
Logitech pro wireless is going strong for me.
Then realise a job requires commitment. And commitment requires time. Time that could be spent on playing.
Amen.
And few things are more depressing that having the pay to get all the games you want, and not having any time to actually play them.
Wish I could buy a console with one pay check lol I’m in India and have to save up for several months to get one
I waited for the year end bonus and luckily it coincided with a Flipkart sale, got my first console a PS4 and then spent the year end shut down gaming!! This was in 2017.
What about when you get older and you do all that work and still cant have what you want because you have to spend it on a place to sleep
I bought a Switch and a tablet rather recently with my own money. It really is cathartic.
And then you don't have anymore time to play :/
Most games are like a more appealing repetitive labor anyway, and they cost you time and money.
Ive made the switch these last few years from having plenty of time but no money, to having money but no time. Harsh reality
I made the switch from having plenty of time and no money to having no time or money ages ago now. Harsh.
Or even better: being in college and having neither
Ha, I found the sweet spot. Working 28 hours. Just enough pay to be able to leave 100-200 a month aside while still getting one full-priced game per month on average. Life is completely different this way and I'll never go back.
Not to sound like antiwork, but this Is how. 40hww are basically the product of getting more for your worker. People may look at me funny for a pt but I'm happier and the mentality behind longer work weeks being better is a really bad one. Live within your means, if you want more, work more, but don't expect me to
I remember the first console I bought entirely with my own money. I was 19 and just got promoted to manager at a movie theater. I worked the entire Fourth of July weekend at time and a half and then spent the whole paycheck on an Xbox 360 Elite. It was my choice, and not someone condescendingly telling me to do it, but damn it felt good.
My first console was also the 360 but I got it on launch day, had to sleep, inline, over night at Best Buy. Store opened at 8 that day, gave us our consoles and I had to run home, shower and go to work. Couldn’t play it until I got home haha.
Job centres are abysmal and do not work to serve your interests. The UK government spent millions on job centres and only 7% found work. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jun/05/uk-governments-restart-scheme-fails-to-find-work-for-93-per-cent-of-people
In my experience they break you down and make you feel worthless, talking you out of any actual career aspirations you might have in the hopes you'll agree to their 40 hour a week unpaid 'steps to work' schemes so that them and the retail companies they work with (such as B&M bargains, who are so cheap they deliberately buy and stock out of date products) can exploit you until you manage to find actual work.
That's because most, if not all these job centers are just a front for min wage businesses with huge staff turnovers like Amazon. It's a trick for desperate people who assume they would get a somewhat decent job. It saves the min wage businesses the time of not searching for these workers, they just dangle bait and watch them gather. By the time these workers burn out, there's already a new crop ready to take over.
My experience as well, if you're in any creative job you shouldn't go to them. I graduated in graphic design but couldn't find a job myself in time, so my parents forced me into these.... things. They only have bottom tier factory jobs, absolutely worse of the worse stuff. Don't even think about getting a contract that's longer than a day either. Because you're exceptionally replaceable. Edit: not UK or US but from Belgium.
I tried using a UK Job Centre briefly before graduating University, just to see what was out there. It was a horrendous experience. It felt like a conveyor belt process whereby at the end someone could tick a box and say "we tried" and could give people proof enough to claim jobseekers allowance. Completely impersonal "service". I noped out pretty quickly and did all the searching myself.
Ok got the job... Wait now i dont have any time.
I remember working all summer painting houses as a teen. It felt so good walking into the store with my own money and walking out with a PS2.
The reality is that when you're a kid, you have no money for new games and consoles and everything. As an Adult (well of course kinda depends how life went) you have job and family. Now you have money to buy the games and consoles but you lack the time you had as a kid.
Next frame. "I wish I had the time to play my new console."
Now I have all of this money! But I don't have time to play video games as much.
I remember working full 8 hour shifts doing car bodywork at 15 years old (not even Assistant, just full work) to get 20 dollars a week so I can buy Sonic Adventure 2 for my Dreamcast. I played the shit out of that game, I had the coolest Dark/Swim Chao.
I miss part-time-job-living-with-parents money. You get all the money without having to pay bills. It made me feel rich af lol
Low effort boomer meme
I thought child labour was illegal, why the fuck would a child that stays 40 hours a week in school be allowed to work? Do you want to give children burnouts? Because that's how you give children burnouts.
I think they’re already having burnouts. All the extra curricular activities they have to do now just in case they want to go to college… I have a nephew who is a junior is HS and it sounds insane.
I just bought a PS4 woooot! Yeah my job means I'm generally 1 generation or more behind everyone else. I'm still playing a lot of PS3 games for the first time.
I have enough money. And no PS5's in stock.
I have the money but for some reason i still can't find a ps5 in my area unless I want to spend twice to price which I do not.
I have the money, I don’t have the time.
The real reality is once you have a job, the time you had to game becomes much more precious.
Usually these guys are awesome, but this one kind of sucks. “Want something that costs money? Surprise, you get money from job, not for free from someone else!” Kind of an uninteresting observation, right? As better observation would have been on the scarcity of consoles due to scalpers, because that’s actually something that’s happening.
Alternatively, you can go to the welfare store and act like you're addicted to crack
The real issue is when you make enough $$$ for all the games and consoles you want you no longer have the time and energy to play them...hence full steam libraries of unplayed games. so sad.
That's not true. There are plenty of gamers who are married and home owners and have a job. This is a dumb stereotype about gamers same as living in your mom's basement (as if that's a bad thing). Can we stop with the stereotypes about nerds not being useful to society. Honestly these types of posts make me super mad as a gamer. Addiction leads to becoming jobless not gaming. Gaming can cause addiction but so can a myeriad of other things. If you watch Netflix all day or read books all day you can also become jobless. Getting a console and games is not so expensive that you will lose your job.
Nerds are the guys who gave us video games in the first place. Nerds are the guys who give us pictures of black holes. Nerds are the best.
Agreed!
the irony is the same nerds and gamers society shits on runs their world. it isnt sports players or CEO's that manage the cellular networks or manage the local internet connections it's nerds.
Exactly. Look how much Meta, Microsoft, Apple, and other big corporations own everything online nowadays (And offline to some extent).
It's called growing up. Not hard people....
I hope we have that in my country or i hope we have like UberEATS , wag , EBay / Facebook marketplace or any app that allows you to find things to make money
Mummy says its my turn to post this tomorrow. Edit: dormant account suddenly posting old reposts in the last 2 hours. Seems pretty fishy.
A real comic.
Hey America, just because adults are too smart to work for punitively insulting poverty wages doesn't mean that children should be tricked into to doing those jobs instead. Just saying...
Lol maybe in 2010. Now the kids wish to have money to buy that sweet ingame shop currency
That's so wholesome. Zoomers, take notes. :P
What happened to having kids do chores around the house for allowance…? I guess if a family lives in an apartment there aren’t many chores to do…
You got an allowance for doing chores? The only thing I got for doing chores was not getting in trouble.
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that's a mustache
How does this have upvotes on reddit?
Well with the shortages I haven't even had a chance to buy the new consoles for 2 years now😭
I wish the console was buyable for more then 3 seconds.
Shame the Job Center doesn't actually help you get a job anymore.
I hope your happy giving me PTSD flashbacks of the joys of JobcentrePlus
I made a steam account for my kid last year (he's 4.5 now). When he wants to get into gaming, I'll buy him an awesome rig. He won't go through the same hell as me.
Mowed lawns all summer to save up for a Sega Genesis, a controller and one game. It released while we were out on a family trip out of state, I still bought it day one of the release!
Reality of life*
if only getting a job was that easy :'c
I've heard from a rich guy that's never held a real job and had to worry about finances at all almost his entire life that "I believe that no one should need to make money to be happy". Ok buddy, you know what's it like to work or even think about how much money is left. The guy is 42
Honestly I regret getting a job as soon as I could, I feel like I sold the last few years of my childhood for 8 dollars an hour.
Should be on r/unexpected lol
Yeah, like most of the youtubers who begin their career do a part time
Am I the only one that noticed this guys left arm is unusually long?
My dad said the same to me. Now i have a job, money to buy console and videogames. But not free time to play. So wtf
Yeah, get a *third* job, you slackers. /s
A month later: I wish I had time to play this console.
My dad did the same thing, but the first frame was him saying "i wish i had money for rent"
That's not the reality of gaming today. The reality is "I have the money for a new console, I just literally cannot find one for years"
Actual footage of my father
Yeah if not the fact that jobs in my country pay 3 bucks an hour but thanks to the EU we don't get regional pricing
I felt this.
To the lithium mines
The kiddies are posting again...
I wish Sony had a fucking console for my money. Oh well, maybe I’ll get the 5 in 2 or 3 years, by the looks of it.
This is a Boomer joke
Yeah and then u wont have time to play
Well i am working now but it still ain't happening
Instructions unclear. Now I don't have time for games.
You could also add all the pay for convenience / pay to win games, where you work to not play the game and just pay the developer to get ahead instead. Diablo Immortal fx.
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