‘Side Hustle’ as a Sign of the Apocalypse
January 14th, 2017Definitely related: L.A. Coliving: PodShare
Via: Medium:
“These days, everyone needs a side hustle,” starts the Uber commercial recruiting new drivers. And it’s got bouncy music and the dude is hip and it makes it sound like this is super fun and I’m sitting there thinking: Are they seriously trying to make a “second job” sound like a sexy thing!? “it’s not my second job, it’s my mistress occupation.” Next, we’ll just start saying bipolar people have a side personality.
And WTF has happened to our culture when we just take it as fact that everyone needs to have multiple jobs and work as a cab driver and rent out every square inch of space in their apartment and be a task rabbit gopher who waits in line for tickets when they’re not walking dogs or temping and we all just chalk it up to “progress”??? In the old days, this meant your life was falling apart. Now it just means you’re part of “the sharing economy.”
Two words — perception management.
You won’t have a generation starting a revolt or revolution if they don’t perceive how they’ve been screwed. “Peonhood” is the new “personhood” — just take away a few things, promote a few others via popular media outlets/TV shows/movies, and very few will notice.
-agreed Pookie. And as a follow up to the PodShare, Portland news covered just covered that.
http://www.inflationdata.com/Inflation/images/charts/Inflation_Trends/cumulative_inflation.jpg
2237% inflation since 1913. That means something that cost $100 in 1914 would cost $2,375 now.
http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/Long_Term_Inflation.asp
Slow boil is an effective method, especially when people weren’t really paying attention in the first place. Personally, I blame anesthetics, people are out of their minds here.
*2275% inflation, looking at multiple charts.
@ Duros anesthetics … mmmmm. Nothing like vino to assuage pookie’s Weltschmerz. But she’ll take vodka in a pinch.
@ pookie Nothing wrong with a touch of the vino, I was talking about people with their heads completely buried in the sand. Nice German word ^^
@Hi Pookie – hope you are well. Just wanted to say hi. Have found a tea – Traditional Meditionals Nighty Night Tea. After a red vitamin supplement, I drink this tea and kind of go into a sleep coma.
Vodka is no help to me. Next is tecqila….
Greetings, Eileen. The words “sleep coma” sound lovely, but your tea is primarily passionflower and chamomile — I need more industrial strength “coma” inducers.
Try Kava, it’s a legal Hawaiian herb that hits the same receptor that ethyl alcohol and the benzo/barbs do (GABA receptor). It’s much less brain foggy, and very little hangover. You can get it in tea bags at the grocery store (Yogi Stress Relief Tea I believe, purple box, read the ingredients), or you can order it by the lb surprisingly cheaply off the interwebs.
You can get extract (less gritty), or the traditional root itself. It helps with anxiety, stress, the fear, etc. If you get the good kind, it makes your tongue go numb for a little bit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kava
http://www.realkava.com/ – got mine successfully from here, fast shipping and no gmo fertilizer or pesticides.
Kratom is great too, but that replaces opiates. (Also legal in the ol’ USSA)
Valerian Root is great for purely getting / staying asleep, it was the only thing that helped my late grandfather with Alzheimer’s fall asleep and stay asleep. Don’t take it if you don’t have 8 hours set aside to sleep, or mild grogginess. This will knock you out when others have failed.
Anyways, enough from my briefcase of herbs, have fun.
will try kava. Valerian root sometimes works for me, but I rarely have 8 hours to set aside for sleeping these days. am crewing at the World Gliding Championships right now, and that’s not even a “side hustle” job (<= note how I cleverly got back on topic — har)
As long as we’re discussing natural sleep remedies, I just thought I would recommend a degree of caution with Valerian. It works well for some people, but it also gives people such as myself terrible, messed-up nightmares. I’ve found in the past that I prefer taking as many one milligram tablets of melatonin as I need.
The kava sounds intriguing, as (I know this is going to sound very flaky) the very thick negative spiritual energy choking US society right now is causing me severe sleeping problems. I’m at a loss for a more mundane explanation. I do have sleep apnea, but I am treating it with an automatic CPAP machine, so I don’t think that’s my issue.
Back to the main topic, I find it amazing that so few people realize that things such as Side-Hustle and Podshare are a direct result of an economy dependent on continuous Moon-sized wads of central-bank-printed money to keep it from falling into major deflationary decompression. Of course, all these printed-money infusions mean that when circumstances finally force a reckoning, it will be worse for having been artificially put off for so long with artificial inflation.
There is no political solution to this fundamentally economic predicament, and the best we can hope for at this point are leaders who won’t plunge the world into global thermonuclear war. And even *that’s* not guaranteed! (How I wish I were merely being facetious here.)