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And in theory, I totally agree! That is solid advice! That will improve your mental health in the long run.

But I think we need to have the conversation that modern capitalist society intentionally makes that hard to do! Sure, it's a nice thought to go for a walk after work, but who of us has access to a nice green, safe park in our immediate area to do our walking in? What about winter when you don't get out of work until it's already dark? It's great to go meet friends after work, but how do you do that when your friends are spread out all over the place and they all work just as hard as you do and are also busy and tired? It would be good for you to take a class, but that costs money that you might now have. Not to mention if you're working full time all your free time and what little energy you have during the week is spent trying to stay on top of the housework.

And that is fully intentional! That way you get home, you're too tired to do your housework so you buy some gadget that promises to make it easier for you, you're too tired to cook so you order in, and then you plop yourself in front of your screen of choice and let an algorithm feed you whatever it wants so you can shut off your brain, and you get your dopamine hits by buying stuff, so you feel some sort of fleeting happiness for a moment. Capitalism works best if the masses work hard for some profit of margin they will never benefit from, and then immediatly spend any money they did just make on whatever they are told to spend it on so the economy does well.

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Sophia - California

The proper response to your dog doing a natural behavior you dislike (digging/barking/protecting etc) it to give them an appropriate time and place to engage in that behavior

The proper response to skateboarders damaging infrastructure is to build more and better skate parks, or build skate elements into the public infrastructure on purpose.

The proper response to homeless people sleeping on park benches is to build them houses.

you see how there's like, a commonality at play here?

The proper response to a disruption is to address the root of the disruption directly, not somehow attack the disruption itself -

you don't invent a muffler by swinging a bat at the engine noise, you don't relieve your hunger by punching yourself in the stomach, you don't resolve public unrest by sending armed men to control them and you don't prevent homeless people using bus shelters as a roof by removing the bus shelters.

Noah Gundersen - Dry Year