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  • Ohhh, friendo, there's about 500 million Christians in Africa that are heavily besieged by Evangelicals pushing this for the political clout. It's rampant.

    Plus, that Joel Osteen guy peddled a version of this hard.

  • Yeah, the widely practiced "Prosperity Gospel" stuff is like a religious studies PhD designed the most anti-Christian form of Christianity for a thesis, and suddenly people started picking it up and running with it.

  • Yeah, I think that seeking simple meaning is the inevitably of growing up in the mess of being online. Being offline and finding meaning in life is the purest form of rebellion to the status quo.

  • I don't hate the "art." The AI can't do much about it.

    What I strongly dislike is people who manage to draft literally 40 words or less and think they "created" something.

    You didn't. You a mathematical model to do something for you. You therw 175 tokens into a whirlpool and got am 87% what you wanted image out. If you even had an idea of what you wanted before hand.

  • Not at all. This person is only describing life/work in some of the post-WII developed world. Historically, this is the anomaly, not the norm.

    For a large part of recorded history, the formula was that land/resource holders offered anyone the cheapest, lousiest, and worst acceptable conditions in exchange for work. The conditions of the resource holders also actually sucked, and when leveraging economies of scale, offers of relative physical and economic security (sure, you'll be kinda poor, but you don't have to travel to another town to sell grain to survive because the Lord will always buy it from you at a "fair" rate.) were typically the value add that made it worth it to consider share-cropping under nobility as opposed to simply going it alone.

    I'm not sure why Reddit and Lemmy seem so hell-bent on this fantasy version of history where farming is a joy denied us by the wealthy, but its hilariously misguided. Considering where things are headed, it sounds like for many it will end up being a dangerously wrong fantasy that others can take advantage of easily, and people that post things like this will learn the lesson first hand.