• Vent@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    How much money does one need for a long walk and listening to birds?

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      7 months ago
      1. Time is money. If you work 2 jobs to provide for your kids alone, good luck finding the time and headspace to not worry about anything.

      2. Parks and forests aren’t evenly distributed. Not everyone can afford living near one or going there.

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      7 months ago

      In capitalism, one must first pay for basic necessities like food and shelter before anything else. For some people who make low wages this requires an amount of time and effort that interferes with their leisure time.

      That said, there are also some people who think they are in this category when in reality their stress is due to self-imposed standards of living that are higher than necessary. Or anxiety and other psychological problems that could be addressed through non-material strategies.

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        there are also some people who think they are in this category when in reality their stress is due to self-imposed standards of living that are higher than necessary. Or anxiety and other psychological problems that could be addressed through non-material strategies.

        also encouraged and exacerbated by capitalism (the former - to create the illusion of a “middle class” for people to aspire to and vote against their own actual material conditions, the latter - by commodifying health care and pathologizing anything that harms “productivity”)

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      How much money does one need to not have to choose between spending their evenings on a long walk listening to birds vs delivering pizzas as a third job to avoid eviction?