David Pennington
@dtpennington
I write stuff. I’d like to write more stuff. Currently: reclaiming my brain.
David Pennington
@dtpennington
I write stuff. I’d like to write more stuff. Currently: reclaiming my brain.
A High-Level Introduction to Idleism
Not to be confused with idealism. Although, I wouldn’t mind making the argument that idle is the ideal. Some principles of Idleism, in no particular order:
You are more than an hourly rate.
You will never get paid “what you are worth” by an employer. The entire precept of capitalism is that they make more from your
So, I just haven’t figured out how to make AI work with my life? Lame.
Go to just about any LATAM country or Carribean island. Go away from the resorts. Hell, just look over the fence - you will find MOUNTAINS of garbage. There is no trash collection, nowhere for this stuff to GO. So it piles up, it gets picked off by the wind. Eventually they just set it on fire - causing all sorts of other climate and health issues.
This is a real, never-ending American Colonialism - our idea of single use yet permeant.