/lit/ - Literature

>>12042442
Meanwhile, a few people get to study things worth studying and work jobs worth working

>>12042447
So people are just competing with each other to see who gets to escape hell and who doesn't, only everyone is actually in hell and some people just have a milder hell, and to push someone into hell so that you might escape is a hellish thing to do

>>12042451
The only escape is that maybe nothing is real and you can escape somehow

>>12042455
I probably created this hell so that I could escape another hell

>>12042451
To push someone into hell so that you might escape hell actually puts you into a deeper hell

>>12042442
and worst of all, i can't make great art either

>>12042483
the world apparently needs people to work these horrific STEM and human resources jobs, but why would anyone willingly do that when there are people who are better than you and they get to make incredible art

>>12042529
the people who work those jobs must be robots, otherwise the universe is unworthy of existence

>>12042530
I'm so angry at this gay earth why is it like this

>>12042442
the point must be that the earth actually is bad and hsould be rejected

you still have to get a job OP

>>12042545
and im a man child who runs away from god

>>12042548
im not capable of having a relationship or a family, so not really

>>12042548
and i'm not even allowed to kill myself and escape

>>12042569
or am i?

>>12042442
the only worthwhile life is the life that tells the other lives that life is a worthless delusion

>>12042442
and i'm probably wrong about everything too lol

Lay off on the drugs and/or alcohol, there’s still hope for you since you actually care and suffer about such issues.

>>12042442
What does this have to do with literature? Why are there more and more posts on this board that don't even try to feign tangential relation to literature anymore, that are little more blatant blogposts? Why aren't the mods deleting these inane threads?

>>12042442
>How can people work such awful jobs

People work for money, the jobs are usually awful because society and existence were poorly thought out, and now we have an endless supply of unfulfilling work that monetizes off of the desire for people to be perpetual children.

>and study such terrible things

I can't say whether or not people study 'such terrible things', the only terrible fields of study are ones that are useless and lack intellectual depth.

>It can only be that the alternative is worse.

The alternative isn't worse, people just don't know how to make things better.

>>12042569
>>12042575

Simply performing the deed is useless.

>>12042529
>work these horrific STEM jobs

Those poor poor scientists. They just waste their lives exploring how the world and universe works. They would be much happier making finger paintings or obsessing over some pomo novel.

>>12042561
>>/r9k/

Back to your containment board, you narcissistic pseud.

>>12046503
>be chemical engineer
>spend entire day measuring pH levels of water and graphing results
>software spits out what's necessary to draw my conclusions
>go home and sleep, dream about nothing
The universe is truly magnificent!

hurr hurr because every scientist works in a detergent factory

>be painter
>spend entire day painting a portrait of a rich family's kid
>appease their ego
>go home and sleep, cry about your dreams of creating art

Every profession can be reduced to something shitty. You'd know that, if you weren't an insufferable teenager with his first existential crisis.

>>12042442
>It can only be that the alternative is worse.
Or plebs don't even dare to live well.

>>12046545
The point of my post was to show that not everyone who gets a STEM degree and becomes a scientist gets to "explore how the world and universe works." I wouldn't have had to spell that out if you didn't have the reading comprehension of a 1st grader.

>>12046503
>he thinks pop science is real science
Lmao

>>12046652
People who both don't read enough and are money driven don't do any research. They seem happy. Some people are just serfs. Don't worry, they have booze and memes, don't try to save them, you can't.

>>12042442
I study econ and finance even though I hate math. Money speaks louder than short term fun.

And what would you a consider a somewhat liveable life?
I agree with you by the way, I hate everything that I do and everything that I could do.

>>12042561
Why do you run away from God?

>>12042442
Anon, I don't mean to sound like a faggot here, but is there seriously nothing that you enjoy? I can empathize with not seeing the point to living or to the circumstances you live in, the shitty position you're in, whatever, but alteast I hope there's something out there that's not as shit, or maybe outside the given categories before.

This is why you should get into smuggling. Such a fun way of life.

Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me.

>>12046743
tell me about this anon, i hate math as well but for some reason the world of finance seems interesting to me regardless. Can you tell me about what you study and what you think of it?

>>12045769
ya thats the fear

It's actually not so bad you fucking child.
>>12044687
>the jobs are usually awful because society and existence were poorly thought out
Stop right there socialist scum.

>>12046520
This. I quit science when I figured out how boring actual science was. I'm sure there are cool moments for some, depending on what you do and how good you are at it, but it's like a longwinded baseball game in that respect, plodding along and along and along until something happens. And here I was wanting to solve the universe. Youthful naiveté!

I will finish my STEM meme degree this year. Now I have to compete with pajeets just to get a miserable job that allow me to survive. OP is right. I won't even use the half of what I learnt, I'll be some office worker filling excel templates.

>>12046777
Nice trips. But just because you enjoy something doesn't mean you can make money doing it. We call those people "lucky".

>>12047834
Were you memed into science by some popsci show?

Most jobs suck. That's why they're jobs. They're things that are difficult or unpleasant to do that must be done and so people are compensated to do it. Countless human lifetimes have been whiled away in pointless labor.

The system trots out pop stars and supermodels and lottery winners and actors and other outliers as fodder for hope, in the expectation that if you see good things happen to other people you can still believe in the system and strive for the same to one day happen to you.

I got news for you bud. Statistics is not on your side. Hell, statistics isn't on my side!

>>12047843
No, I was just an avid reader and researcher of science. Academic desk-joby science I can do. I was the one leading the paper write ups and giving chalkboard lessons. I just didn't enjoy applying the scientific method outside my head. I'm a very good theoretician though and got some praise in that role. It's just less well defined employment wise.

Don’t worry when automation takes over we can all be reduced to UBI sheep and you’d better believe that nobody will take their free time to study anything serious. We already watched the great experiment known as the internet fail at democratizing information.

>>12042442
Ted was right. I just want to live a simple religious life with natural, physical labor.

>>12047894
me too.

>tfw stemchad making $180k at the age of 23, still /lit/ as fuck

>>12047894
you don't know what you want
dumb technophobe

>>12046503
>exploring how the world and universe works
lol

>>12047894
Is that what Kaczynski wrote about? Sounds pagan

>>12046743
>short term fun
oh i didn't realise this was the only alternative to a finance degree

>>12047840
RIP

>>12047943
I want to live a monastic life
>>12047962
Kacznsky talked about the negative effects of technology, industrialization, oversocialization. Just read him, it’s a short book and it’s simple and clear

>>12046503
The usual STEM graduate doesn't go into research, 1% at max does

I work in finance and hate every single moment of it. My only recourse is escapism in literature and thought. Time spent grappling with the Sickness Unto Death is less time to contemplate robbing the misbegotten underclass to marble my employers. Better to contemplate a book than a bottle of gin and a loaded pistol. I'm not going to make it into middle-age.

>>12042442

Capitalism.

>>12048670
Do you have any work friends? Do they hate their job too?

Kek the alternative is great, just if to many people do the alternative you wind up like africa

>>12048947
NEETs rise up

>>12046503
This. I never realsied how mucb I hated research until I learnt that other people get to truly understand the intersectionalist feminist perspective on a book I can merely read as a white male.

>>12046503
How naive.