It's not a guarantee, it's the furthest thing from a guarantee, it's a risk. You're risking your present day enjoyment for the hope of future success. My brother tried the same thing when he invested heavily in his car repair company, which burned down and he tried killing himself, he's doing better now.

My dad sacrificed his whole life for me and my family, which was amazing for me and my siblings but it came at the cost of his passions. Work became his identity because it was how he provided for us, which sounds like a romantically self sacrificial great thing to do and it was until he was supposed to retire but because of financial commitments (mostly having to do with a now chronically depressed son who was in massive financial issues after his hop burned down and a host of other issues) he couldn't. And then when someone died at his job, he blamed himself and in the end took his own life even though investigations found it wasn't his fault.

What I've seen of hustle culture and this weird cult of responsibility that says to take on as much as you can for the sake of a myth of guaranteed success with little regard to your current wellbeing or the long term effects the lack of self care can provide.

That's not even getting into people gambling their life savings away on get rich quick schemes like NFTs and investments that often don't pan out but you don't see those stories on MTV cribs or whatever nonsense wealth fantasy shows people watch these days.

Hustle culture is terrible, damaging, and toxic for everyone involved except the wealthy people who are exploiting them.

No, it's the commoditization of every aspect of human existence. The idea that the only thing we contribute to the world are the things we can make money off of. Can you paint? Make it your side hustle. Like computers? Better get on that stream and start grinding or using your tech skills to invest or get into programming to get a better job.

Hustle culture ignores the value of contentment, enjoyment, passion for passions sake, it ignores some of the foundational aspects of being a human being and condenses it down into dollars earned, items obtained, and the false sense of feeling more superior than someone who doesn't have those things.

It doesn't respect the individual or their goals and passions. You can have a good work ethic and still want to have time for yourself, time for self discovery, creativity, and artistry all for their own sake.

Hope so. It's a wretched hive of hussle culture turds

I've been trying to stave off my nihilistic tendancies under the assumption that humanity won't actually allow its self to be destroyed if out of self preservation more than anything else.

My view of the future is that the world population is going to level off. Yes we're close to hitting 8 billion but I can see the population leveling off completely at 9 billion or so. We're going to start moving away from fossil fuels but it's going to take a long time and the oil and gas industries are going to fight tooth and nail to avoid it but they've been doing that forever.

I wouldn't be surprised if the war in Ukraine leads to a serious Nuclear scare and even possibly a detonation. But I think that act will spur the world into calming the fuck down and getting to the negotiating table to form an actual effective world government that will include Russia and China. I think they'll realize that the only thing that's going to save the species is refocusing human effort away from corporate profit and territorial expansion and to the stars. We're already seeing the beginnings of it but with the combined effort of the 3 major super powers we'll see a massive push towards space.

Meanwhile 3d printing and VR technology will become ubiquitous on earth allowing people from all over the world to connect in the... I don't want to call it the metaverse... the digital space I'll say which will lead to more combined ingenuity from places that we haven't had access too before as continued investment in Africa has resulted in stabilization of the region and increased GDP per capita.

As the generations go on, decreased religious participation has lowered the power of the theocratic governments in the middle east and elsewhere as people are increasingly exposed to new ideas. The enthusiasm from people who have gone from living in 70s level technology to suddenly waking up to the 21st century invading their lives means that African and Arabic peoples as well as those from the recently liberated North Korea surge into the online space creating all new cultural revolutions and perspectives.

We achieve world peace as we focus all human effort on space, while using AI powered by quantum computers and 3d printing to make life sustainable and prosperous for those on earth. We finally realize that human ingenuity is the most powerful, valuable tool on this earth and we spend our days trying to build people to their maximum potential because the world has come to realize it's the strength and health of the individual that stabilizes the species, not only those who can extract the most resources.

I also hope that biotech and robotics means I'm head in a jar driving a cypbernetic mech body so that i can be around to see it. Or my consciousness gets combined with an AI to continue my life in the digital realm. Basically I just don't want to die because I want to see what comes next.