I was placed in a foster family and ended up being used as farm labor
Just to be clear, english is not my first language. I used translation assistance to write this text so I could express myself accurately. The events described are true and written as factually as possible.
I was placed in a foster family following serious family difficulties. This foster family ran a farm with several chicken coops.
When I arrived, my phone was broken. The family suggested that I collect eggs from their chicken coops in exchange for some money so that I could buy a new phone. The farm had three coops: two with around 2,000 hens each and a smaller one with about 1,000 hens, for a total of roughly 4,000 eggs per day. The eggs were brought by conveyor belts into a room where they had to be cleaned, sorted, placed into boxes, and stamped. There were also eggs left inside the coops that had to be collected manually.
I worked every morning from 7:00 a.m. to around 11:30 a.m., Monday to Friday. At the beginning, a farm employee was present and did most of the work. I was slower and learning. I did this for two weeks and was paid 200 Swiss francs, which allowed me to buy a new phone.
After that, the family asked me to continue collecting eggs. I agreed, assuming I would c
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CMV: Throughout all of history, the Majority always oppresses the Minority
I would say this is just something I've notice thanks to my interest in history. The sheer amount of examples is just overwhelming. The Tutsi and Hutu, catholics and protestants (the oppressed and oppresser change depending on the country it is happening in), Christians and Jews, Russians and Ukrainians, Europeans and Natives. All of this has made me belive that, no matter the origin or beliefs of any kind of group, so long as they are in the majority, they will find a why to oppress another minority group. I would say that this falls under the whole US vs THEM thing, where the only difference between two groups that is nessasery for conflict is the fact that the two groups are not each other. I've posted this mostly because I was feeling a bit depressed about the idea of this (I don't have depression but it did make me feel a bit sad).
I feel useless
My entire life I’ve been overweight, it used to really bother me in like 7th and 8th grade, but i eventually learned to love myself for who I am and become the best version of myself just for me. I’m now in the absolute best shape in my life (I’m still definitely overweight but the improvement is visible) and recently I began taking some extra Physical Education classes to see just how much I’ve improved, and yet on every single run, I’ve come dead last. I feel all those years of self hatred rush back as I watch each of my classmates pass me by and I feel like all the effort I’ve put in has been for nothing. I’ll admit it’s not as bad as before, I used to feel like i shouldn’t even be alive, but the self hate is still there and I can’t see myself ever escaping it.
I have a good life, but I am lonely and feel empty
I am in my early 20s, I have always been a loner and have only had a few true friends in my life.
I dropped out of college and started working very early on at a medium-sized startup in a big city, 100 km from home. I worked 10-12 hours a day, but because I had no time for anything else and lived only for work, I was actually happy. I didn't think about anything else and didn't have time to deal with relationships and similar things. However, it was a rather toxic environment, and a few weeks ago, after more than two years, I decided to leave.
Now I work in a very well-paid position in a smaller corporation, I have much more money than before, and most importantly, I now have much more time, or rather too much time. My roommate and I recently moved into a great new apartment, and overall, I'm doing well, better than 95% of the people I know to be honest. I know I should be happy, I have independence, I'm doing well, but inside I feel empty.
I have some friends in this city, but they're not particularly close relationships. I've never been in a serious relationship, I don't even know how to get one, dating apps don't work and I find them a waste of time and morale, I can't meet peop
I have been worrying about AI making us obsolete but I realized something that gave me hope
I have been going down the rabbit hole lately reading everything I can about Artificial Super Intelligence. Honestly it started to terrify me. We are building minds that will eventually be a billion times faster and more knowledgeable than us. It made me ask the question a lot of us are probably thinking. If the machine can do everything better than us like writing and coding and reasoning then what is the point of us? Do we even matter anymore?
I am a researcher at heart so I tried to look at this logically. And I hit a realization that actually gave me a lot of hope. I wanted to share it here in case anyone else is feeling that existential dread.
We are confusing intelligence with consciousness.
We have built a silicon brain that can process information at the speed of light. It is an optimization engine. It can simulate a symphony or model a cure for disease or generate a poem. But there is zero evidence that it experiences any of it.
Think of it this way. We have built the ultimate race car. It is faster than any human could ever run. It is stronger. It is perfect. But a car has no desire to drive itself. It feels no thrill of speed. It has no fear of crashing. It has no destin
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