Thread 516698068

A growing number of men are living alone in barely furnished apartments like this.

Is this bad for society?

A lot of people think their life is terrible because of something called the hedonic treadmill, you get used to how great your
life is. No one had a hot shower until about 50 years ago. So I try to do this thing when you stand in a hot shower, just pause for a moment and think: "No one you admire from 100 years ago had this simple pleasure in life."

We are in the top percentile in terms of the luck that we have had, the lives, the caloric intake we just take for granted, the fact that our children don't die in the first year, modern medicine, the entertainment we have. We're living like kings. And yet, life has never been objectively better and subjectively worse. Why? because human desires are mimetic we copy what others want.

So really, your happiness is: Your quality of life minus envy. That's how happy you are. And it's easy to look at everyone else and how they are doing and not take pleasure in what you have.

>>516698068 (OP)
Why would my furniture have any effect on society?

>>516698068 (OP)
Materialism is feminine and cancer.

FROM THE DUSTY MESA
HER LOOMING SHADOW GROWS

>>516698251
kek

That's too much, he has all that spare room, needs to live in a converted van.

>>516698179
>So really, your happiness is: Your quality of life minus envy. That's how happy you are
That's actually an interesting thought, thanks bro

That's not a very optimal setup. The couch should be replaced by a folding futon with mattress that doubles as a bed, which is far more portable and could easily be packed into a small car. The TV and TV stand both could be replaced with a good projector screen, which would give a much superior viewing (especially at that distance) and again, be far more portable.

>>516698068 (OP)
Not nearly as bad as having to live with strangers. I mean "roommates"

>>516698068 (OP)
I wish I did. My gf is driving me insane.

>>516698068 (OP)
The opposite, it's good for society. It usually takes men a lifetime to realize that the trappings of this world mean nothing; and that the only thing that matters is their mind.

If you discover minimalism at an early age; if you refuse to run on the treadmill of overpriced useless gadgets and invented competition with your next door neighbor, you'll be much happier in life.

>>516698865
Why?

>>516698895
What about birthrates though?

>>516698179
I redid one of my bathrooms, and when you see a guy resolder a new shower valve (little copper pipes and a blow torch), it hits you how magical all this shit is.

You have cold and hot water, sewer, a mirror, waterproof tile flooring, and HVAC in a little bathroom. Unthinkable for most of history.

I agree and disagree with your post, however. Most men seek status. We compete for status. It's fine line between striving / motivation and envy.

>>516699226
> birthrates
The nesting is what the wife and mother does. A single man his no interest in women's things

But to answer your question... in American baseball there is something called a 'sacrifice fly' where a player intentionally loses their place on base in order to advance others further around the bases.

The same thing socially is going on in the world right now. At least two generations of women were raised to expect only the best; and have issued demands to the men of the world of what their minimum is. The men of the world have collectively read their demands, and have declined their offer to compete for them. The declining marriage and birth rates now will be replaced in 20 years by a boom in marriage and birth; as a bunch of young women look around at all of the bitter, never-married, angry karin spinsters; and realize that life would be much easier if they hooked a guy while they still had a chance.

>>516699226
Look at this graph and honestly tell me low birth rates are our biggest issue.

>>516699414
Striving is good but only as far as it leads you to objectively upgrade what you are, aka doing scientific research or having a meaningful life by pumping out a lot of babies and teaching them how to be strong (in order to continue the life cycle of our species).
What I mean by this is that the corporate rat-race is utterly ridiculous and in a few centuries they'll look at us with the same awe that we have when we think about the imperial chinese exam for exemple.

Basically if you're not contributing to objective enhancement of mankind (for exemple by working in one of the few eugenics start-ups) or trying to fight death by working in a longevity field you should chill and understand that all your "achievements" are utterly useless and uninteresting.

>>516698068 (OP)
So what's the problem?
>>516699226
Quality is more important than quantity. The earth is full, so only those who have something to pass on to children should reproduce

>>516699832
The problem is low IQ people are having kids while high IQ people don't. China is the exception because they are a high IQ group which created a quasi-superpower in less than 30 years.

Most countries which created all those people can barely get their shit together.

>>516698068 (OP)
Spartan lifestyle is the best. I love it.

>>516698068 (OP)
>living alone in barely furnished apartment

I was never happier.

oh well, nothing lasts forever.

>>516702420
Don't you get lonely?

There are worries that men are suffering in this kind of living situation.

>is it bad for society
yes
>what can we do about it
idk ill just turn my brain off and vote trump for a 3rd time (unironically)

BUY MORE

>>516698068 (OP)
I finally got a shoerack this year. 8 years after moving into my apartment. Still no couch though.

>>516699226
>What about birthrates though?
Ask women. They are the gatekeepers of sex and pregnancy.

>>516702846
a shoerack? How many pairs of shoes can you wear at the same time?

>>516698068 (OP)
I wouldn't like to live like that

>>516698179
Stfu nigger
We are not just pig to be fed
Fucking absolute nigger retard faggot mentality

>>516698068 (OP)
>apartments
This is bad for society, yes.
I on the other hand, live alone in a barely furnished house.

>>516698323
Materialism is desire. Desire leads to suffering. The goal is to find inner peace and contentment, which are independent of external possessions, rather than seeking fleeting pleasure through material consumption.

>>516698068 (OP)
Someone post the roastified NPC golem version kek

>>516698179

Absolutely cucked mindset, no wonder your country is full of niggers now.

>>516703754
>Own nothing and be happy
Desire is not a problem at all, because living without goals is an empty, harmful vegetation. The problem is that you can't let go of what you lose when you're attached

>>516698179
>no one had a hot shower
You're a retard. Yes count your blessings but hot showers absolutely existed a 100 years ago

>>516702342
That is scarily similar to my living situation except I have a desk and a PC as well.

>>516698068 (OP)
Missing a bench and weights and a treadmill or elliptical if you want to have more add a power rack
Also a safe and or gun rack (or large storage box) and a bunch of .50 cal stacked ammo containers full of various caliber (or crates of soviet ammo, bonus 2nd couch) add a table for soldering / electronic work / or a 3d printer

>>516703209
I used to keep like 4 boxes by my door. I got sick of looking at the boxes. I didn't want to put the shoe boxes in my closet even if I wasn't going to wear them.

>>516698068 (OP)
Nah its good, they'll kill the government without question because they have nothing to lose and everything to gain

>>516698068 (OP)
I had a bunch of guns, tools, and computer parts laying around my place bsck in the states.

>>516698068 (OP)
Barely furnished is all he needs. It's women who fall for the Crate & Barrel bullshit.

>>516704717
we need more men living like this, when we reach critical mass it's GGWP for the jews

>>516704445
Consoom, goy. Buy next product be happy for new product.

>>516698582
They are going to rape you because your weak

>>516698179
This is a good perspective that I believe we should all adopt but I think most have started to realize that underneath all the luxury lies something more twisted going on. In some ways we all are subdued.

>>516698179
Shit that jews say to try and convince you that losing that last 80 years of quality of life due to greedy kike boomers is a GOOD thing goy!
Go fuck yourself.

>>516698068 (OP)
Women and jews cannot comprehend that it takes very little to make a man happy.

>>516698068 (OP)
Why would I waste money on useless furniture?
What do you think I am? A woman?

>>516698068 (OP)
It is bad for the kike businesses and consumerism at whole.

>>516704445
I believe there are inherent needs we all have that if not met leads to suffering. Anything beyond that would be desire, which also leads to suffering. Balance = peace.