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RAT RACE
The Endless Chase for Money

At what point does earning a living become an endless race that consumes our lives?

My latest article explores our relationship with money, purpose, and what it really means to be wealthy.

🔗 Article link below

https://medium.com/@dianabasieseme_60028/rat-race-42504d7cfa8d?sk=52426ad2d7e2b9d567eb9523673306fc

Visual created with AI.

#RatRace #Money #Minimalism #Purpose #Writing #PersonalGrowth

RAT RACE
The Endless Chase for Money

At what point does earning a living become an endless race that consumes our lives?

My latest article explores our relationship with money, purpose, and what it really means to be wealthy.

🔗 Article link below

https://medium.com/@dianabasieseme_60028/rat-race-42504d7cfa8d?sk=52426ad2d7e2b9d567eb9523673306fc

Visual created with AI.

#RatRace #Money #Minimalism #Purpose #Writing #PersonalGrowth

Getting ahead by stepping on a head

#capitalism #ratrace

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

And always, in our highly regularised way of life, [the modern man] is obsessed by thoughts of the morrow. Of all the precepts in the Gospels the one that Christians have most neglected is the commandment to take no thought for the morrow. If a man is prudent, thought for the morrow will lead him to save; if he is imprudent, it will make him apprehensive of being unable to pay his debts. In either case the moment loses its savour. Everything is organised, nothing is spontaneous.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-09), “The Role of Individuality,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 3, BBC Radio

More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/843…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #apprehension #concern #fear #future #hereandnow #livefortheday #liveforthemoment #livefortoday #modernworld #morrow #prudence #ratrace #saving #seizethemoment #spontaneity #tomorrow #uncertainty #wisdom #worry

Head and Feet Blues (SONG)

One of my favorites when Jeremiahs Run was still performing live.

This is a story about a man who split himself in two.
One part stayed the same the other just grew and grew.
One part stayed in one place, the other up and joined the ratrace.
He had his head in one place and his feet in another.

Head in one place feet in another. You got your head in one place, your feet in another. Your heart’s disconnected one way or the other. Head in one place feet in another.

The part that never changed was always true,
it was always old and the growing part was always new.
While one part was dying from entropy the other part was dying from too much speed,
Head in one place feet in another.

Head in one place feet in another. You got your head in one place, your feet in another. Your heart’s disconnected one way or the other. Head in one place feet in another.

I heard a story about a man who split himself in two.
One part stayed the same, the other just grew and grew.
I got to wondering when the story was through which part was me and which part was you.
Head in one place feet in another

Head in one place feet in another. You got your head in one place, your feet in another. Your heart’s disconnected one way or the other. Head in one place feet in another.

Song written October 27, 1998

Head and Feet Blues (SONG)

One of my favorites when Jeremiahs Run was still performing live.

This is a story about a man who split himself in two.
One part stayed the same the other just grew and grew.
One part stayed in one place, the other up and joined the ratrace.
He had his head in one place and his feet in another.

Head in one place feet in another. You got your head in one place, your feet in another. Your heart’s disconnected one way or the other. Head in one place feet in another.

The part that never changed was always true,
it was always old and the growing part was always new.
While one part was dying from entropy the other part was dying from too much speed,
Head in one place feet in another.

Head in one place feet in another. You got your head in one place, your feet in another. Your heart’s disconnected one way or the other. Head in one place feet in another.

I heard a story about a man who split himself in two.
One part stayed the same, the other just grew and grew.
I got to wondering when the story was through which part was me and which part was you.
Head in one place feet in another

Head in one place feet in another. You got your head in one place, your feet in another. Your heart’s disconnected one way or the other. Head in one place feet in another.

Song written October 27, 1998

Het gaat bij Eva nu over de grote onvrede over de pakketbezorging in Nederland.

Ik vind het zelf meevallen en wij bestellen best vaak online. Af en toe komt het eens voor dat we naar een pakketpunt moeten, terwijl ik gewoon thuis was. Maar ja, die bezorgers staan onder veel te hoge druk en moeten zo'n 200 pakketten per dag bezorgen.

Bovendien is 1 of 2 dagen later vaak helemaal niet erg.

#RatRace #Eva #DPG #DHL

Het gaat bij Eva nu over de grote onvrede over de pakketbezorging in Nederland.

Ik vind het zelf meevallen en wij bestellen best vaak online. Af en toe komt het eens voor dat we naar een pakketpunt moeten, terwijl ik gewoon thuis was. Maar ja, die bezorgers staan onder veel te hoge druk en moeten zo'n 200 pakketten per dag bezorgen.

Bovendien is 1 of 2 dagen later vaak helemaal niet erg.

#RatRace #Eva #DPG #DHL

Poster, THE SPECIALS "Rat Race" 1980

#poster #thespecials #the_specials #thespecialAKA #ratrace #ska #punk #punkrock #TwoToneRecords

Poster, THE SPECIALS "Rat Race" 1980

#poster #thespecials #the_specials #thespecialAKA #ratrace #ska #punk #punkrock #TwoToneRecords

RE: https://newsie.social/@royaards/116006472341536906

#Humor #Comics #RatRace #Trouw 🇳🇱

RE: https://newsie.social/@royaards/116006472341536906

#Humor #Comics #RatRace #Trouw 🇳🇱

Rat race. Cartoon I made for Dutch newspaper Trouw a while back, published today in Belgian newspaper De Morgen: https://www.demorgen.be/puzzels-cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~b6a46595/

#RatRace #therapy #efficiency

Rat race. Cartoon I made for Dutch newspaper Trouw a while back, published today in Belgian newspaper De Morgen: https://www.demorgen.be/puzzels-cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~b6a46595/

#RatRace #therapy #efficiency

THE SPECIALS "Rat Race" live in Japan, 1980

#thespecials #thespecialaka #ratrace #ska #twotone #music #musica #newwave #punk #blackandwhite

https://youtu.be/R4AeFvd3O1I?si=H8FRJ7ebO5J1-l5T

THE SPECIALS "Rat Race" live in Japan, 1980

#thespecials #thespecialaka #ratrace #ska #twotone #music #musica #newwave #punk #blackandwhite

https://youtu.be/R4AeFvd3O1I?si=H8FRJ7ebO5J1-l5T

The rat race, literally:

https://youtu.be/e9dZQelULDk

#RatRace

Rat race. English version of Monday's cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

#RatRace #competition

Rat race. English version of Monday's cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

#RatRace #competition

Escape the #SelfPublishing #RatRace

https://www.draft2digital.com/blog/escape-the-self-publishing-rat-race-with-johnny-b-truant-ep236/

Escape the #SelfPublishing #RatRace

https://www.draft2digital.com/blog/escape-the-self-publishing-rat-race-with-johnny-b-truant-ep236/

A quotation from Banksy

   The human race is an unfair and stupid competition. A lot of the runners don’t even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water.
   Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side.
   It’s not surprising a lot of people have given up competing altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk food and shout abuse.
   What we need in this race is a lot more streakers.

Banksy (b. 1974?) England-based pseudonymous street artist, political activist, film director
Wall and Piece, “Rats” (2005)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/banksy/77042/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #banksy #system #statusquo #apathy #classwarfare #competition #defiance #disrespect #givingup #humancondition #inequality #injustice #protest #ratrace #unfairness #world

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

For my part, the thing that I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 3 “Competition” (1930)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/767…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #contentment #satisfaction #bertrandrussell #aspirations #competition #economicsecurity #goals #leisure #ratrace #wealth #money

#TIL dat het Franse equivalent van de #ratRace is métro, boulot, dodo:

metro, werken, slaapjes doen.

#métroBoulotDodo

Joining the #ratrace once again #society #capitalism #meta #government

#RatRace

Daarnaast is Nederland een van de weinige landen ter wereld waar het normaal is om baby's vanaf zes weken al naar de kinderopvang te brengen.

Dat zit 'm onder meer in onze verlofregelingen. Werkende moeders krijgen tot twaalf weken na de bevalling volledig doorbetaald. Wie daarna weer gaat werken en bijvoorbeeld een werkende partner heeft, is in veel gevallen op de opvang aangewezen.

https://www.nu.nl/economie/6343427/nederland-koploper-in-europa-wat-betreft-jonge-kinderen-in-opvang.html

#RatRace

Daarnaast is Nederland een van de weinige landen ter wereld waar het normaal is om baby's vanaf zes weken al naar de kinderopvang te brengen.

Dat zit 'm onder meer in onze verlofregelingen. Werkende moeders krijgen tot twaalf weken na de bevalling volledig doorbetaald. Wie daarna weer gaat werken en bijvoorbeeld een werkende partner heeft, is in veel gevallen op de opvang aangewezen.

https://www.nu.nl/economie/6343427/nederland-koploper-in-europa-wat-betreft-jonge-kinderen-in-opvang.html

Digital painting: Ambiguous impulses for your own mental cinema!
#kunst #contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #digitalPainting #virtualPainting #aiAssistedArt #digitalArt #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanrights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #hamsterrad #ratRace #astronaut #spaceSuit #outerSpace #aquarium #fishBowl #fatMan #adiposity #obesity #swimmies #bodyShaming #masculinity #pointerfinger #blaming #guilt #accusation

Digital painting: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #digitalPainting #virtualPainting #digitalArt #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanrights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #astronaut #ratRace #hamsterrad #dessert #insideSpace #innerLife #stucco #introspection #window #monkeys #chimpanzees #jury #gameShow #judgement #score #passengerJet #tank #bigEye #anatomy #drippings #eiffelTower

@TarkabarkaHolgy moving to your left or right? 🐀 🐦‍⬛ #OmensAndPortents #ornithomancy #RatRace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithomancy

@TarkabarkaHolgy moving to your left or right? 🐀 🐦‍⬛ #OmensAndPortents #ornithomancy #RatRace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithomancy

Us Vs Them

Alliances have been formed.

Who will reign supreme.

Hopefully David’s Palace of Cats will create the ultimate alliance.

Proof that if we can do it, y’all can do it too.

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Unity #RatRace #InstantDreamHome

Us Vs Them

Alliances have been formed.

Who will reign supreme.

Hopefully David’s Palace of Cats will create the ultimate alliance.

Proof that if we can do it, y’all can do it too.

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Unity #RatRace #InstantDreamHome

Gave my Irish coworker a bitter taste of America when I informed her that I'm taking my first 10 days off of work in about 2 decades.
#ratrace

[#Opinie] 𝗗𝗲 𝗽𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲 𝗸𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝘂 𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗵𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴

«In de praktijk laten we ons steeds meer inzetten om individuen die afwijken van de vigerende #Prestatienorm ziek te verklaren. Mensen die wanhopig aanspoelen bij medische loketten in de hoop dat de #Psychiatrie verlossing biedt voor problemen die eigenlijk niet eens in ons ziektemodel passen.»

https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/opinie-de-psychiatrie-kan-het-individu-niet-redden-van-een-onthechte-samenleving~bd2883b6/ via @volkskrant

#Neoliberalisme #Samenleving #Ratrace #Individualisme #Volkskrant

#RatRace

Great video by Sabine Hossenfelder on what's wrong with academia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8&list=WL&index=12&t=350s

@academicchatter

#academic #science #scholars #ratrace

Exiting the 'rat race' should not label anyone as 'lazy'.
Someone once said that the problem with winning the rat race is that you are still a rat.
#millenials #ratrace https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/02/soft-life-why-millennials-are-quitting-the-rat-race

"there is a growing feeling online that hard work is fortifying a system that, at best, is giving them nothing back and, at worst, is actively screwing them over. And so the “soft life” revolution was born"
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/02/soft-life-why-millennials-are-quitting-the-rat-race
#softlife #QuietQuitting #ratrace #anticapitalism

@StillIRise1963 Am reminded of this:

#CalvinAndHobbes #RatRace #cartoon

heyo!  #introduction time.  i tend to be #verbose, so i understand if my first #toot is seen as #tldr.

i have been a strict #vegan for 10 years.  my #family is small.  my only #son is an #electrical #engineer who is a #licensed #PE in 4 states.  i live with 3 #dogs - an older #yorkie and 2 much younger #biewer terriers.  i also keep an #aquatic #turtle and maintain a #worm #farm for him.

i'm twice #retired, first from the #military, and then from a #normal life.  i'm an #intel #alumnus, having spent 12 years in #post-silicon #validation of #processors and #chipsets.

i'm quite new to the #fediverse.  in #discord they call me #grey or #wolf.

in that #platform i'm either in several #Crypto servers, or in servers full of social/gaming #bots (the #OwO #bot is my #escape from the #ratrace).

my #interests are mostly #technology, #animals, and #music.

i built my first #x86 #computer in 1993.  i've been #crypto #mining for 7 years.  i build my own #rigs.

and now i've reached the limit.

Stop using fear to motivate students to lead meaningless lives of "success."
#RatRace #Education #FulfillingLife
https://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2023/12/end-rat-race.html?m=1