The correct amount of rest is the amount you wouldn't dare admit to anybody. And may not be able to afford to take.
I'd love to see the bibliography from that elective
For those like me that had never seen this before: https://www.vogue.com/article/paris-hilton-debunks-stop-being-poor-shirt
This apparently never happened.
is the real slogan that much better though lol
"Stop Being Desperate" has a real "Let them eat cake" feel, especially coming from her.
Paris Hilton is a sexual abuse survivor that built a public persona of an "airhead" to sell to people to build up her own wealth away from her brutal family. The "rich spoiled girl tries common people's things" was an act.
Shes at this point working as an activist to shut these abusive organizations down.
Was at a party with her at Cannes a decade ago and she was DJing, and was actually kinda good at it. She was with some young boy toy acting like a party girl. Soon as her set ended and the cameras went off it was like watching a switch flip. The dude left and she seemed to go have a quiet drink with a group of friends I couldn't make out. I learned about her past and business behind the scenes shortly after and felt like you know what, respect. Get that paper girl.
I'm aware of and support her current work and I agree that she's much smarter than her public persona would lead people to believe. However, she still comes from a place of unbelievable privilege and telling people to "stop being desperate" is incredibly tone deaf, IMO.
Two things can be true at the same time.
She’s a wealthy heiress yes, but her parents did use their wealth to send her to a teenage torture facility. As a survivor of a similar facility, the fact that she is speaking up about those hellholes and might help get them closed down makes her absolutely amazing.
Its work
Working, in the way that we do, takes years off of our lives and ruins the quality of life of people in their final years too.
I mean, its a meme and the message is put across very well but, for me, an important distinction for the comments section is that wealth increases life, as much as, if not more than poverty decreases it. Its wealth specifically and not wages too. After a certain point, increased wages actually have an inverse effect on lifespan which I'm sure comes as no surprise to anyone and the reason is both self explanatory and further supports what I'm saying.
Just so its been said, wealth, in these instances, refers to capital that makes you money. More specifically, wealth gives you money from NOT from working.
The exact point at which life expectancy and QoL increases is always around the exact level of wealth and passive income someone would need to drastically lower their working hours or stop completely.
A second argument: women live longer than men. There are some biological factors for this, such as oestrogen being a vasodilator etc. However, it wasn't really enough to explain the differences we were seeing.
The thing is, this unexplained gap has started getting smaller and smaller. Now, unless there's been a fundamental change in the average womans physiology recently, only one thing has changed in our society to the extent that it could effect something like this. Its also filtering through at around the exact time it should be, were the trend to be caused work.
Nothing else reconciles all of the positions, let alone so perfectly and in one single stroke.
Edit: so many typos
My first instinct was to call this a repost as I remember seeing this like 4 years ago on reddit but this is a different platform altogether.
Though it Is worth the reminder to Treat yo self
Should you even call something out as a repost when the last time it was posted was 4 years ago?
After all, millions of people have been born and grown up during that time
I know I posted this before, but it's an important reminder.
Please repost regularly, we shan't forget.
I always say that the most damage my health took was not from drinking and smoking excessively - the most damage came from the stress of a defunct childhood and the subsequent lifestyle.
I sometimes wonder how much my childhood shortened my lifespan. I think work wouldn't top that stress I had.
Have you taken the ACES test? I thought it was a great eye opener. At least it was for me.
Just did, didn't cover anything relating to my issues. I scored a 1, and that's only because "Was a household member depressed or mentally ill" fits me.
I'm glad I've never taken it before because I definitely would've interpreted it as a sign that I didn't really experience anything bad and that I'm just so bad at everything I can't function in even a normal environment. At least now I can stand up for myself and say that's not true. Still sucks to feel unseen by a test whose name claims to be general.
On the ACES assessment, every single one of the 10 things asked about is known to cause neurological issues in children which persist throughout their lives. Only a 0 is insignificant. A 1 is very significant. I also scored "low" and thought it didn't mean anything, but I've since learned every single one means a lot.
Even my 1 feels a bit cheated, since I'm assuming the intent of that question was someone in my family other than me has depression. I guess you can say it correctly predicted me having high risk, but it's obvious from the kinds of questions asked that that's mostly accidental, and that my struggles weren't really considered.
I scored an eight and while I don't let it define me, it has been helpful for some stuff.
I hope this result doesn't put you off of looking for the help you need. Remember that this is just a tool out of many available now and while this wasn't for you, that doesn't mean there's not something for you out there.
Well, I mostly solved the depression with estrogen, and coincidentally I'm seeing a therapist tomorrow for what I think to be CPTSD and some other symptoms I don't know much about. I'm suddenly collecting an avalanche of diagnoses it would seem.
Along the same theoretical lines, it seems plausible to me that the inner stresses of being an asshole might do the same thing. So maybe there's some justice in the world after all.
I would like to believe this, unfortunately the large number of very old assholes seems to indicate otherwise.
I think the trick is not caring that you are one and probably believing you are always right, everyone else doesn't matter and that you are the center of the universe, so that the side effects really don't apply to you because that's your reality no remorse to dwell on.
You think you hate being around them, they have to be around them all the time. They lose if they live a long or a short time.
...shorter ? can one be outlived by their asshole ?
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