**Probably how normalized burnout is today. Feels like something future generations won’t accept so easily.**
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FairfaxAikmanMar 30, 2026
+15
The man on the street having to recycle everything under the Sun while big companies continue to pollute that atmosphere – but blame the wee man for not recycling enough.
Those same companies not paying their fair share of tax.
15
thebusconductorhinesMar 30, 2026
+25
The Israeli genocide will be a shameful stain on our history. When i tell my children I couldn't talk about it at work because I would lose my job, they;
a) won't believe it
and
b) will be ashamed of me for being so cowardly as to give in to that pressure
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Odd-Magazine-9511Mar 30, 2026
-20
Nah, nobody is going to think its genocide. It doesn't even meet the definition now. How is that going to change? You'd have to brainwash everyone to be liberals, but that is never going to happen.
-20
Thin-Character-6996Mar 30, 2026
+1
Bot alert
1
goshtinMar 30, 2026
+7
You assume things won't be worse for future generations.
7
bunny_ears16Mar 30, 2026
+13
Tbh adherence to any religion.
13
ThisPlaceIsFucked111Mar 30, 2026
+1
Holy listnook. Take my updoot sir.
1
Hungry_Director4222Mar 30, 2026
+1
UN predicts atheism to peak in 2050 and half by 2100. Atheists just don’t have any children
1
Frosty_Inspection873Mar 30, 2026
I don't think so. Global IQ seems to have peaked and it seems people with (1) high levels of religiosity, (2) lowest IQs are having the most children.
0
Dismiss_Trouble_17Mar 30, 2026
+7
Electing a felon to be the leader of a country
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AsparagusForsaken588Mar 30, 2026
+4
That being constantly “available” is normal. Right now it’s expected to reply instantly, stay online, and basically be reachable 24/7 for work, friends, everything. We’ve normalized burnout and call it productivity.
I feel like future generations will look at this the same way we look at unhealthy work cultures from the past and wonder why no one questioned it more.
4
LordVoldefuckMar 30, 2026
+1
I have heard this from many people before, but this hasn't really been my experience, has there ever really been a repercussion for not being available immediately?
1
AsparagusForsaken588Mar 30, 2026
+1
Honestly, same here… most of the time nothing actually happens.
I used to feel like if I didn’t reply instantly, something would break, deal lost, issue escalates, people get annoyed. But in reality? 90% of things just sit there waiting anyway.
The only “repercussion” I have noticed isn’t external, it’s internal. People *expect* you to be always available if you train them that way. Once you slow down a bit they adjust pretty quickly.
1
Interesting-File-299Mar 30, 2026
+2
my farts
2
-FemboiCarti-Mar 30, 2026
+2
Single use plastic
2
KaalveythurMar 30, 2026
+2
Billionairs, hopefully.
2
---Spartacus---Mar 30, 2026
+1
Inherited wealth.
1
These_Employ5951Mar 30, 2026
+4
A few things future generations may look back on and think, “How did people think that was okay?”:
Factory farming and the treatment of animals for c**** food.
Designing social media to be addictive, especially for kids.
Letting a handful of companies collect huge amounts of personal data.
Destroying the environment for short-term profit, despite knowing the consequences.
Working cultures where people are expected to sacrifice sleep, health, and family just to be seen as “successful.”
Massive wealth inequality being treated as normal.
People being judged by race, gender, sexuality, or where they were born—even in subtle ways.
4
Dismiss_Trouble_17Mar 30, 2026
+3
Did you see that recent lawsuit about how Meta apparently got a kid addicted to social media? I can only hope that sets a precedent and can be the beginning of the end of social media being intentionally addictive to kids
3
Ok-Imagination-494Mar 30, 2026
+3
Factory farming
3
mostly__void__Mar 30, 2026
+3
Servers making less than half of minimum wage and relying on tips for the majority of their pay
3
Tricky-Percentage983Mar 30, 2026
+2
Food that is more chemicals than actual food.
2
gay4communismMar 30, 2026
+5
"Actual" food is also made of chemicals. All food is made of chemicals.
5
Werten25Mar 30, 2026
+2
Mentioning how much you are looking forward to warm, dry weather.
2
PotentialAnything347Mar 30, 2026
+1
Traditions
1
AR_WalaaMar 30, 2026
+1
Everything. Literally everything. They’ll think we were livin in a glitchy beta version of life...
1
DecembersDragonsMar 30, 2026
+1
Lead is the heaviest stable atom.
1
RealPin8800Mar 30, 2026
+1
Working insane hours being seen as success future generations are definitely going to call that out as burnout culture not ambition.
1
lilithreposeMar 30, 2026
+1
High impact sports
1
LunaWabohuMar 30, 2026
+1
Capitalism, hopefully
1
BunzillaMar 30, 2026
+1
Working night shifts without mandated sleeping breaks. Typing this on hour 11/12 of my second overnight shift and feeling like I might not make it.
1
GIT_45Mar 30, 2026
+1
Not doing anything about people named in the Epstein files, while other countries are.
1
eques_99Mar 30, 2026
+1
Meat farming and animal experimentation.
1
ThisPlaceIsFucked111Mar 30, 2026
-1
Abortion. It's just baby murder but because we don't see the body parts get sucked up by a vacuum and the little blot of a person get dissolved by medication then it's all cutesy and nice.
-1
Neither_Name_1105Mar 30, 2026
Using Tiktok
0
SpringyardzonMar 30, 2026
Not travelling much.
0
[deleted]Mar 30, 2026
-5
Gays
-5
gay4communismMar 30, 2026
+1
Communists
1
DeathOrCurePleaseMar 30, 2026
-1
Stop Drugging nonchristians would be a good start.
There is over a 1000 years of history of Christianity telling nonchristians their mentally sick for not believing in Christianity. They invented fake illnesses whos symptoms are just nonchristians ideas. To this day in America 🇺🇸 land of freedom you can basicly be drugged for nonchristians thought.
Take this as base material Short History: How Christian Institutions Weaponized Mental Health Asylums
1. Medieval Europe – “Madness = Demon Possession”
From roughly 500–1500 AD, mental illness was framed through a religious lens.
The Church held a monopoly on explaining behavior.
Strange thoughts, visions, or non-conformity were labeled possession, sin, or moral failure.
Treatment included exorcism, confinement, fasting, and punishment, not care.
Many people who didn’t fit Christian norms (heretics, pagans, “blasphemers,” dissidents) were lumped into the same category as “madmen.”
This was the root of tying spiritual control to mental health.
2. 1600s–1800s – Christian Charity Hospitals Become Asylums
A lot of early asylums were run by:
Catholic orders
Protestant charities
Anglican church hospitals
And these institutions often operated with the belief:
“Correcting the soul will correct the mind.”
What this meant in practice:
Forced prayer
Forced religious instruction
Punishment for not adopting Christian behavior
Locked wards, restraints, beatings
Isolation as ‘moral reform’
People who didn’t conform to Christian norms — not just mentally ill — were frequently committed:
Unmarried mothers
Non-Christians
Atheists
“Difficult” wives
Political dissidents
Poor people deemed “morally defective”
So yes: asylums were weaponized as moral prisons.
3. Victorian Era – “Moral Treatment = Christian Obedience”
In the 1800s, Christian reformers pushed a system called moral treatment, which meant:
Obedience
Discipline
Quiet behavior
Religious instruction
Removal of “immoral influences”
Mental hospitals became behavior factories designed to force people into Christian social norms.
If you didn’t comply?
You stayed locked up.
4. 1900s – Psychiatry and Christianity Blend Into “Social Control”
Even when psychiatry became a medical science, many institutions were still run by Christian boards or religious administrators.
Common weaponizations:
Committing people for religious non-compliance
Labeling non-Christians as “delusional”
Using hospitalization to “correct” sexual orientation
Institutionalizing political or religious dissenters
Forcing patients to attend chaplain services
Well into the 1970s–80s, lots of state hospitals still had:
Christian crosses above every bed
Mandatory prayer sessions
Religious coercion disguised as therapy
5. Modern Era – The Shadow Remains
Today, the system is officially secular — but the historical architecture still affects:
Who gets labeled mentally ill
How “danger to self” is interpreted
How society treats dissent, non-Christian beliefs, or alternative spiritual experiences
The culture of some hospitals and shelters (many still Christian-run)
The assumption that refusing Christian norms = pathology
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