somebody told me that americans are well known for something called a "puritan work ethic" which is where you try to never have fun. unfortunately, some small parts of work actually can be fun, or at least interesting, which is why the americans have recently been trying to invent a machine that does all the fun and interesting parts for you
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@jk you can see it in how we come up with new sports, which are always just old sport with new equipment for you to buy. some enterprising sports fans figured out that you only need one frisbee to play frisbee with a friend but golf requires a whole set of golf clubs for each player to buy to play with a friend so they came up with disc golf so that every player has multiple frisbees to play with friends that they don’t have because they’re into disc golf.
@djsundog a good walk, monetized
@jk boomers popularized "working to the bone for literally no reason and treating it as a point of personal pride", "only having approved hobbies", and "getting to age 70 and feeling weirdly empty"
i'm not american so i don't know if it's true, it's just a rumor. i've heard that in america, you are only supposed to have fun by spending money. if you have fun doing something that isn't supposed to be fun, apparently that's seen almost like a fetish, a kind of perversion, and you're making it weird for everybody else who does that thing for normal reasons like 'making money'. it's really weird that you care about it and enjoy it for your own weird reasons, they don't like that. apparently