/lit/ - Literature

mom and dad's pretty much, unless you're willing to really rough it.

>>7339357

Ask /r9k/, they're the experts.

>>7339357
Best way of living

>>7339357
1. live in a civilised country
2. collect welfare

>>7339406
This is what I do, it works well.

Is that really all you want? What country do you live in? In most parts of the world you can find somewhere with very cheap rent then get a room or even a damn trailer. You can live on like $150 a week pretty easily. If you live in Europe go to somewhere like Portugal.

There are a million ways to get such a small amount of money a week. You'd probably only need to work one or two days a week and books cost very little.

>>7339357
>>7339385
This is exactly what I do. It's great for getting reading done, but pretty much nobody will respect your lifestyle regardless of how difficult/obscure your books are. Also you will never get laid; I don't even talk to girls anymore because they are without exception filled by contempt for someone without a career path, especially if you still live with your parents.

If you live with your parents, you pretty much have to trade the chance of sex for the opportunity to read all day. I was always shit with girls anyway, so I just read like 9-10 hours a day, work out, and sleep. If I'm not gonna get laid I may as well read some cool books to pass the time.

>>7339357
Purchase an annuity, >>7339406, write papers for chinese college students, become a librarian

>>7339357
Save really hard for 10 years, and then buy a small shack in the western US near a source of clean water and fish, grow your own food, live off the land, and read. A good library nearby probably would be helpful.

Pic related, Ted Kaczynski did it no problem. You could probably do better, not being insane. I felt he kept a very cluttered space.

>>7339463
what are your long-term plans for when your parents can no longer support you?

A: Prison
B: Monastery
C: NEET

>>7339571
>That feel when you feel your life heading in the same direction as the unabomber
>That feel when you tell your mom this
>That feel when she makes you see a therapist

>>7339588
As long as you dont send bombs and keep up hygiene and keep a rational mind I honestly have a great deal of respect for those who choose to live off the land to a degree. Social media, clickbait, arguments about social concerns from a post structuralist perspective, demands of society....deeply frustrating

>>7339581
Prison and monastery can require a lot of work though, especially monastery.

>>7339463
>I don't even talk to girls anymore because they are without exception filled by contempt for someone without a career path, especially if you still live with your parents.
I met a guy who lives with his parents and does his "music" all day but it really irks me he has no real career and is dependent on his parents. I can't give him a chance no matter what redeeming qualities he has.

>>7339624
A bunch of NEETs will chastise you, but I find lack of ambition in women absolutely disgusting.

There is nothing worse than a "couch potato"

>>7339463
how old are you m8

>>7339624
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>7339624
when he's a famous producer, you'll come running back like the worthless whore you are

>>7339624
>>7339629
>unironic careerism

Stuck in the 80s, lads?

>>7339605
Yes, absolutely. On the other hand, you don't have to worry about kills, rent, social calls, relationships, retirement, and so on.

>>7339640
I'll be a doctor by then :^)

>>7339664
*bills

>>7339665
a whore doctor? unheard of

>>7339357
Hard one, try:
>>>/out/
>>>/job/
>>>/adv/
>>>/biz/

Saged, even /his/ might have advice, those art fags have to eat from somewhere.

>>7339791
>literary lifestyle threads are not /lit/

get a load of this newfag

>>7339811
Get a load of the culling that you shit posters are receiving.

Not because it was happening all the time makes it right.

In the past if a woman dressed slutty, i could have fucked her and then tell the court she was asking for it, that is no longer the case.

Do i use in my defense, that it was ok before?

Saged, you and your ilk continue to make these threads, you being banned will be better for all of us.

>>7339572
That's not really in the cards; my family has a decent bit of money, and fairly hefty life insurance policies on both of my parents. Worst comes to worst, I have a useful degree from a good school, and have received (and turned down) good job offers from connections through a few of my old professors. High pay, long hours; it's a nice fallback, but I have no desire to work 80 hours a week at a consulting firm just to put money in the bank.

>>7339624
Yeah I get that a lot. It kind of bums me out, but ultimately makes sense and IMO isn't worth totally overhauling my whole life for the sake of MAYBE fucking/dating a girl. I get flirted with/approached decently often, but the conversation inevitably collapses when it comes out that I "don't do anything." It's funny that it's not even an issue of lifestyle compatibility; even girls still in school are turned off by it.

>>7339631
22

>>7339664
You will very well care about kills in prison.

>>7339842
This thread is about the consumption of literature, it does not belong on other boards. It belongs here like knife threads belong on /ck/.

>>7339847
>have received (and turned down) good job offers
>22
You're still young, and most people who go to university live with their parents after graduation until they land a decent job. You're saying you don't want to gain experience in the field you studied, which makes me think you don't enjoy what you studied. Clearly if you were offered jobs by your professors and other connections, you must have some people skills. Support yourself, don't be a burden and eventually an embarrassment to your parents, all for the purpose to spend your days reading. Stop being a loser and do something with your life. Even if you are working a job, and living on your own, you can still make time to read.

>>7339959
don't listen to this normie

>>7339959
I enjoyed what I studied; I just don't enjoy working in the field more than I do reading and, frankly, just enjoying all of my free time.

I also don't get this whole "support yourself" schtick; you're attaching worth to work, and for only that reason are recommending that I give myself less time to do what I enjoy. Could I "make time" to read? Yeah. But I couldn't read as much as I wanted to, nor would I have the energy for it. And for what? A paycheck? The irony is that people don't actually care about money; they are obsessed with the worth they attach to earning it. It baffles me that you can look at someone who has money and no obligations, and recommend to them that they get a job just to get a job.

You may live to work, but I'll only ever work to live; if I can live without working, I won't work.

>>7339959
>if you're not a wageslave you are a loser

fuck off dad

>>7339959
spot the american

>>7339357
Make a bet with a rich Russian asshole.

>>7339624
lol who cares

It's all gonna come crashing down soon anyway

>>7339985
>>7339847
>has a degree
>hasn't dropped out of college multiple times
FUCK OFF NORMIE REEEEEEEEEE

>>7340009
>he attempted uni

REEEEEE

>>7339571
>I felt he kept a very cluttered space.

Hilarious!!!

>>7339433
>books cost very little
What the fuck, books in my country are cost at least 20$~ each.

>>7341725
Used books?

Who /puppetmaster/ here?

>be 28
>live with mommy
>smash things and threaten to commit suicide each time she tells me she's going on a "date"
>she finally gives up and is now clinically depressed
>get autismbux after numerous "incidents" at the welfare office made them realize I was autistic
>tfw spend most of my day playing Rome: Total War 1 to sublimate my power fantasies
>tfw taken over the entire map except for one province owned by Parthia
>spend maybe three hours a week overall reading books to reinforce my self-image as a n alienated, misunderstood intellectual
>tfw have them surrounded on all sides and just invade every now and then to reduce the size of their armed forces

>>7341733
classic tendies story retold; a /lit/ approved modernist classic

>>7341730
Hard to find exactly what you're looking for, and still costs like 10$.

>>7339985
So you'd rather stay a pathetic NEET then? Not many things more disgusting then s person with no ambition.

>>7341733
I hope someone feeds you your teeth some day.

>>7341742
>pathetic NEET

Nice spook, wagekek. I know and have known people with plenty of ambition, and they are and were so boring, narrow-minded and desperate to be validated that it turned me off the concept completely. Also, what if his ambition is to read all day? He's achieving it every morning.

>>7341744
Watch those edges, kiddo.

>>7341733
die

>>7341733
This is a true /lit/erary lifestyle. Write a book about it.

>>7341762
>>7341744
>>7341742
What's up with so many /b/tards and redditors coming here lately?

>>7341733
This desu senpai

>>7341748
>guy makes his mom clinically depressed
>someone thinks he should be punished for that
>edgy

Really nigger?

>>7341746
Not really a spook kiddo. And ya I'd rather be a wagekek or whatever then loaf around being a waste of space. I'd rather work and sacrifice time for reading or writing then being an aimless slob who hides behind his books, calling it a better life when deep down, they know it's not. But hey your 22, guess you still have to grow up yet.

>>7341926

>2015
>getting trolled this hard

>>7341937
>Thinking it's grown up to base your self worth on others' perceptions of you
So mature. *o*

>>7339357
I guess being a critic for your local newspapers would help as a start. Write reviews for recently written books/films/albums, etc, and maybe write short stories/novels at the same time. It's not going to rake in a lot but if you're genuinely up for it and enthusiastic, it'd likely open up some more doors to make more cash in the long run.

>>7341937
>>waste of space

>thinks work is dignified

Fucking slave

>>7341937
>I'd rather be a wagekek or whatever then loaf around being a waste of space
>then

That's actually not a spelling mistake on your part, since that's exactly what will happen. You'll labor away for forty years and then become a waste of space and regret working so hard for so little in old age.

I think OP is just afraid of failing, so he's decided to embrace not trying.

Not exactly the most original gambit, but it has been proven to work.

>>7342082
Methinks you don't know the definition of slave.

>>7342153
Really seems my work is paying off quite nicely. I've learned to balance my work and pleasure, and it's allowed me to further my education. Better this then wasting away afraid of trying anything in life. It's like you people damn those who actually want to better themselves.

>>7342004
You base yourself on others perception all the time dude. More mature then being a NEET.

>>7341742
>>7342257
I just think it's funny that you totally fail to see how intensely you're projecting your own values onto me. You equate ambition with career ambition; I don't. You praise the balance of work and pleasure that makes you happy; so have I, with different results. You say I'm afraid of trying anything in life, as though life is wholly described by professional success, as though disinterest in a 9-5 means I fear life and have no interests or desires.

>unaware that different people have different preferences

Maybe your "furthered education" should at some point include the most basic of micro economics classes, so you can appreciate that not everyone thinks and lives exactly as you do. All of your arguments (ambition, wasting life, educating oneself) are based on totally subjective preferences; you just sound butthurt that someone else's preferences don't involve sitting in an office for 50 hours a week.

>>7339854
Not unless you accrue drug debt or volunteer to be a hitman.

>>7342278
Or unless you are in a South American prison.

Marry some rich broad and become a stay at home spouse.

>>7339357
>you will never live in a post scarcity society where you can live the true literary life and do nothing but read nice books all day everyday
How's it feel? Because it feels horrible to me.

>>7339357
divulge, disseminate, share the ideas, thoughts, philosophies, methodologies, ideologies, knowledge and all you gain from books making public street speeches and youtube videos like M J Aurini and VSauce

>>7341733
>>tfw have them surrounded on all sides and just invade every now and then to reduce the size of their armed forces

This is easily one of the most autistic things I've read.

Just live on welfare.

>>7340006
These edits are always so retarded because they edit the face to be exactly what he/she says not to be physically.

>>7344287
Spotted the butthurt commie.

>>7344289
No I find the image funny still, but people ruine the joke quite often by putting the face of a celebrity and then saying "on all levels but physical i am 'celebrity' "

The best one is the one with Descartes though.

>>7339433
confirmed for truth. I was born and live in Portugal, and while I'm finishing my master's degree in engineering, which will lead me to a job in IT consulting, I live in a rented apartment with 2 fellas for 350€/month, and I can't remember the last time I paid more than 10€ for a book. If you read stuff in English, as I currently do, you can get them as cheap as 3€

>>7339959
>Even if you are working a job, and living on your own, you can still make time to read.

NO NO NO NO NO

ANYONE WHO DOESN'T HAVE 2/3RD OF HIS TIME TO HIMSELF IS A SLAVE

IF YOUR JOB IS NOT ADDING VALUE TO YOUR TIME WITHOUT TAKING THE MONEY INTO ACCOUNT, DON'T-FUCKING-DO-IT

>>7344338
wise words tbqh

>>7344338
inb4 wageslaves try to argue that sleeping counts as time to themselves