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People who need work always assume everyone else is like them, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar or defective person. Like morning people, or sports people.
I would happily spend the rest of my life not working.
I'm pretty sure he's talking about doing literally nothing, as opposed to not working.
I'm pretty sure no one at all was talking about literally doing nothing, because what a stupid scenario to even consider
Saying exactly what you mean is confusing to you, isn't it?
It's confusing why anyone would say such a pointless thing as if people need to be taught it.
The sun shines during the day. Wow, what a powerful and important message.
But presumably you don't just stare at the wall. "Humans need something to do" is mainly bound to not just sitting around twiddling your thumbs. It's the reason we get bored, the brain is annoyed at not having anything to focus on.
It doesn't have to be literal work, just something you find engaging, be it going for a run, tending to houseplants, or completing your entire video game backlog.
And of course there is variation between humans. Some people cope well with having little to do, others always need to do something they find productive.
I’m pretty sure no one at all was talking about literally doing nothing, because what a stupid scenario to even consider
That is exactly what I said, and exactly what I meant. People need something to do.
Well. In that case, what a stupid and pointless thing to say.
It's the entire moral of the story.
If anyone told that child to literally sit still and do nothing for an extended period of time, that's some of the most abysmal parenting I can think of. I've literally never heard of it happening to any child except in cases of abuse.
You are incredibly good at missing the point.
It's always particularly frustrating when someone accuses you of what they themselves are doing, not as a rhetorical tactic, but because they're just too goddamn stupid to realize what they're doing. I can't just say to you "actually you're the one missing the point" cause you'll just go "nuh uh" like a 6 year old and ignore what I'm saying.
So anyway, I guess my point is, you're probably not qualified to have conversations. Like at all.
The fact that you're at odds with everyone else in the thread should tell you everything you need to know, but the entire point of the post was that giving their child something to do solved a lot of problems.
Humans don't respond well to having nothing to do.
That's not at all the moral of the story, because it's a fair assumption that his child, like most children not experiencing abuse, was not told to literally sit and do nothing prior to being given a shovel.
Think about it for a second. Is there some widespread epidemic of parents forcing children to sit and do nothing? Do we really need a lesson that "hey this thing that no one does is bad"?
The lesson is that kids need physical activity. Not just reading or video games or doing homework. Which is not "doing nothing".
Lemmings are the single dumbest group of online people I've ever seen, so that happens a lot.
Have you ever even met a child?
A lot of them are on this site, and those ones definitely need to touch grass
This is an absolutely bizarre way you've chosen to interpret the post.
How the fuck is it bizarre? What's bizarre is saying people need to not sit and do literally nothing. It's such a fucking obvious statement, it's like saying people need to eat to not starve. Bunch of fucking morons on this site. If that's a lesson you need teaching, you probably aren't intelligent enough to survive without substantial supportive care
And yet, the person in the screenshot was surprised that giving their child something to do was good for them.
They were surprised that giving their child something physical to do was good for them. Something outside, dirty, and taking a lot of energy. That's an important lesson, nowadays when do much of parenting is indoors and on tablets.
That's the lesson. All you dumb fucks are missing it and it's really blowing my mind that you think the kid was literally sitting doing nothing up until mom gave him a shovel. Not reading, not doing homework, not playing games, just sitting and not doing a damn thing.
It's the dumbest shit I've ever heard of. And it's pissing me off that our society could produce such stupid people.
That's not at all how we were interpreting this, and I don't know how you decided we were.
Initially I thought not too, but OP personally responded saying that's what he meant.
but if you literally had nothing to do in your life, you would grow bored, and start doing something the human condition is to create things.
Why do you think we industrialized?
I’m pretty sure no one at all was talking about literally doing nothing, because what a stupid scenario to even consider
You've made the exact same reply three different times.
Yeah because I got the same reply 3 different times.
yeah see im confused because i thought that's what we were already talking about, but then people started talking about it again like it wasn't already understood.
I did not pick up on it.
No, you guys were right. I overestimated OP, couldn't imagine him possibly making such an inane statement. But yeah, he was literally saying that people don't like sitting and doing absolutely nothing.
I think they're talking moreso about having anything to do at all, not just work. I think we all agree that work can be a drag. But if I didn't need to work to make a living, I'd still be doing things - hobbies, learning new things, whatever. I'd rot away if I just sat on the couch watching tv all day everyday, for example.
Watching TV is not doing nothing, and lots of retired people love sitting and watching TV all day.