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I despise the modern phones and internet
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mendip_discovery:

--- Quote from: bigfoot22 on January 01, 2023, 06:22:24 am ---...

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Bigoot22, its not just the poor that are suffering but it is a big factor, though I think its more about not feeling like you have enough which isn't helped by the person down the road who posts about his latest expensive item they bought. I do get how it is for you its a right crap game and its very hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel I hope it works out for you and you can get back into it all and start making your life better.

I have an ok paying job but social pressures that I should be more successful, in a relationship with kids, own a house, be healthy etc have put me into a hole. I work harder than I should because I never feel I have done enough, my employer knows this and takes advantage of it. My current thinking is I will burn out at some point so I am trying to earn what I can and save what I can to pass it on to the next generation (Nieces and Nephews).  I am getting to an age where correcting my faults won't happen quickly enough for them to stick and I have traits that just make me the kind of person who isn't as quick as others so I put in more time to make up for it. I know I have a dopamine issue as I rarely take much pleasure in completing a task but it is hard for me to get help as every time I speak to a doctor about issues they go for the easy "have you tried losing some weight".

With regards to FB etc I became aware that I was being manipulated to look at notifications that were not there, lots of red then you look at it and its just "xy posted something" which I had already seen and replied to. If you ignored the app then it would start sending more stuff to bring you back in. So I removed the app, and just log in on the home PC every now and then but last year in a fit of annoyance at the amount of hate on FB, I removed 428 of my FB friends and just kept a few family members (FB would always get all upset if I tried to delete it). Since then I have also walked away from Twitter and Reddit as the same echo chambers of hate exist there as well. This has freed up my phone to just be a phone again and other than using it for news and some web browsing its now back to basics again. Thinking of getting rid of youtube at the moment as that does have a tendency to send me into a loop of just one more video.
themadhippy:


--- Quote ---Poverty is not a choice. Nobody wants to be poor.
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Define poor?According to our governments definition im supposedly living well below the poverty line,but guess what,im much happier and have a better quality of life than i did when i was earning almost double the national average

--- Quote ---Nobody wants to be unemployed
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nonsense,almost everybody given the choice would chuck there job instantly as long as there income wasn't affected.
Mechatrommer:

--- Quote from: bigfoot22 on January 01, 2023, 06:22:24 am ---Poverty is not a choice. Nobody wants to be poor.
Mental Trauma is not a choice. Nobody wants to have that.
Physical disability is not a choice. Nobody wants to have that either.
Unemployment is not a choice. Nobody wants to be unemployed.
Bad education is not a choice. Nobody wants a bad education.

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from one perspective it is true, usually when one is born with it.. from another perspective, it is a choice, though usually an indirect one... at one time a person have money and throw it all to gambling, the original intention is to get rich, but in the end.. poverty.. its an (indirect) choice... a fully able person but choosed to do crazy things, bungee jump, cliff climb, dive, or whatever... drive recklessly while selfie or drunk just because its fun, enjoyable and because we can, things went wrong, then they get Physical disability, Mental Trauma, Unemployment etc... its an (indirect) choice... parents send kids to school but choose to not pay attention, always play smartphone, do enjoyable social activities etc, got dropped out or fail in exam.. bad education, Unemployment ... its an (indirect) choice...

the problem with most people, including the many that can afford to pay internet bill to chat in forums, or even with some professional knowledge and skill set... is they only activate their 1st level thinking skill, 2nd and higher level thinking is either sleeping or dead... ok if we do this, its fun.. so lets do it! if later on, something go wrong, after few days later, months or years later... they cant relate or find reason what was happening why bad things happened today... sometime there are long chain and reactions of cause and effect... there are many people came from poor people climb up the ladder become better and better even one step for each generation... and there are people came from the rich/well educated/healthy family ended up in mental trauma, anxiety, desperation etc... its a choice, whether a direct or indirect one, whether we know it or we dont, and sometime the effect will happened to somebody else, other society groups or even family etc.
james_s:

--- Quote from: bigfoot22 on January 01, 2023, 06:22:24 am ---Poverty is not a choice. Nobody wants to be poor.
Mental Trauma is not a choice. Nobody wants to have that.
Physical disability is not a choice. Nobody wants to have that either.
Unemployment is not a choice. Nobody wants to be unemployed.
Bad education is not a choice. Nobody wants a bad education.

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I'd agree with the mental trauma and physical disability part but the rest is not so straightforward. Nobody wants to be poor, however an individual's choices will have a great deal of impact on whether they remain poor or not. Unemployment, again, people can choose the career path they want and they can make choices that greatly increase their odds of being (and staying) employed. I've known quite a few people that don't really want to be employed, I mean almost everyone likes paychecks but many don't want to work or put in the minimum effort. Bad education is absolutely a choice, lots of people don't care about education and don't put in the effort required. Citizens in every developed nation have access to at least 12 years of free schooling and there are other resources out there to obtain additional education that anyone has access to, if they make the choice to use them.

I think far too many people use "I didn't have a choice" as an excuse for not really trying or putting forth any real effort.
james_s:

--- Quote from: tooki on December 31, 2022, 11:36:02 pm ---I think that whole “in moderation” attitude is ridiculous. It’s a phone. It’s a tool, not a vice. The things you do ON it may be vices, but there are so many things the devices can do that it’s absurd to condemn the device as a vice.

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The phone itself is a tool, but many of the things one can do on it could legitimately be called vices. Social media and many games are engineered to be addictive, there are people that spend every waking moment absorbed in their phone, or rather the apps that are on their phone. It's not the same sort of tool as something like a screwdriver or a wrench, you don't see many people fired from their job, failing out of school or crashing their car because they can't stop playing with one of those.
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