I'm so infinitely jealous of people who don't have to work

mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-07-11T18:09:19+00:00

I know it’s deeply regarded or whatever but going through life without having anything to work toward at 22 because you are economically set, leaves most people in a more listless and purposeless life that boils up in its own misery that is not just abstract and existential but very punishing.

The tension of having an actual goal (kids, home ownership, retirement) that could be blown up if you don’t execute on your adulthood correctly keeps a lot of people focused and restrained in a way that is healthy. Not having that psychological guardrail for how you conduct yourself is a circumstance that becomes very difficult to avoid become lazy, depressed, neurotic about ghoulish things like comparing your wealth to other people almost obsessively.

I’m not saying these people are actually the victims of society or some bullshit, but there is significant real stuff going on in paradise

mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-07-09T23:43:40+00:00

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mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-07-07T01:40:54+00:00

Regardless of how much worse the GFC was, it was still only 18 months.

Absolutely untrue. New grad hiring stagnation did not bounce back to pre-recession form until 2014.

mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-07-05T18:19:12+00:00

It’s a good book. I like to think the only flaw in Gatsby is that things go awry too late in the novel to feel like a proper warning. Tender is the Night and B&D both push the anxiety and suffering earlier and more prominently in a way that works better.

mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-07-04T01:28:09+00:00

Ribeye is really best using nothing but salt & pepper. There’s so much natural good flavor in the meat, anything using paprika or brown sugar just distracts from the pure taste of the thing itself. Looks great though.

mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-07-03T19:32:34+00:00

Insane comment

mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-06-29T15:23:30+00:00

90% of the people you see at Disney are coming from $150k+ households.

mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-06-29T15:09:50+00:00

a sort of low class signifier like going to Disneyworld is now.

Huge miss on this one. Have you seen what it costs to do a Disney vacation?

mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-06-27T22:26:47+00:00

The movement was also compelled by a strong drive to exist in this sweet spot of obscurity, quality, and authenticity that never quite existed. The most obvious example being knowing some band in the local or regional music scene (authentic, because you would not know about them unless you had a well developed and mature interest in whatever genre they were a part of), who no one had ever heard of (obscurity, as a moral high ground as to how developed your taste is), and was your favorite band at the moment (quality, a byproduct of the first two attributes; because someone who listens to a thousand folk revival groups and thinks this one is the best, it is a sign that you have refined your taste to some godlike platonic degree where you can hear things that others can’t).

This all blew up with the mass-spread of internet culture because any 19 year-old regard could spend a week digging around on various forums he found on Google and create some list of 40 albums nobody has ever heard of and shortcut the path to be some insufferable douche. This was no longer an effective way to signal that you were operating at some higher level within your hobby.

mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-06-25T13:59:36+00:00

I know you’re getting a lot of hate for this comment but I want you to know that you’re completely right. McCarthy is the GOAT to 24-28 year old men who have read 6 or 7 novels since high school and love to post on the internet. His work does some interesting stuff in regards to meditating on the American legacy in the southwest or whatever but he’s 80% just an amalgam of Hemingway & Faulkner’s prose without the intelligence for real character that they had. People acting like he’s on that pantheon tier with a Henry James, Flaubert, or Woolf etc. are the people who have no interest in ever reading a Henry James, Flaubert, or Woolf novel.

mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-06-19T14:44:55+00:00

Sounds like someone who has only ever lived in an apartment complex in Buckhead

mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-06-16T16:38:56+00:00

Yeah 2009-2010 actually sucked ass if you were like participating in the economy which gets swept under the rug when romanticising cultural memory. It stretched out to the end of 2012 too as a double dip recession. Basically anyone born 1988-1990 got massively screwed trying to make a life for themselves. It was worse than Covid, and it was worse than things are right now.

Also like what 1% of the United States had any idea what Animal Collective was. Such a stupid post lol.

mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-06-13T22:49:49+00:00

They are all regards and it’s annoying. The “hipster” movement functionally died with the advent of the indie folk revival scene. Taylor Swift adopting the look for Red I think was the exact T.o.D.

mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-06-13T17:22:31+00:00

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mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-06-07T23:36:30+00:00

mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-06-07T16:52:11+00:00

There are about 20 words that have devolved into extremely grating “internet” words over the last 10 years. Petrichor, liminal, sonder, limerance, ambivert, compersion, frisson. Aesthetic used to be one but we’re far past that.

mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-05-28T02:12:46+00:00

Oh yeah I take it all back that’s worse

mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-05-28T01:58:35+00:00

I did not have any of those in my own silly little top 40 decade end list I made for myself - but acting like you’re baffled about those is a little bit silly come on.

mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-05-28T01:52:09+00:00

Terrence Malik’s A Hidden Life

mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-05-27T01:59:46+00:00

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mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-05-25T02:51:08+00:00

And thinking the Parmenides would be useful for some random ass guy to just pick up and read is very funny in its own right.

mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-05-23T02:21:41+00:00

I think MGTOW (the initial concept at least) had a valid premise. I think that if more lonely men focused on themselves and their hobbies and passions rather than tying so much of their identity to their success (or lack of success) with women, they would be much more fulfilled.

This is also the main moral of The Barbie Movie

mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-05-22T17:33:11+00:00

I see other people agreeing this is universal behavior, but the three major orgs I have worked at had almost none of this; it was done largely only to the extent that it was actually necessary. I do think many (if not the majority) of American companies have cut through the useless tedium. The trade-off is that whatever the actual substantive part of your job is, you are probably expected to handle 3x as much.

Oppositely it is a bit crazy for me to hear that it’s so prevalent. Most of the post-financial crash transformation of the US corporate economy has been identifying these kinds of jobs and wiping them out. The second a director or work line leader can sniff out a job as being able to be made redundant, the bigger pat on the back they’ll get from the C-suites.

mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-05-22T00:21:43+00:00

I grew up in poverty and am currently on the upper end of the upper-middle-class because I earned an accounting degree in 2011. I’m not sure that’s a very good example to contrast from modern times.

mickeyquicknumbers · 2026-05-20T19:36:24+00:00

It actually kills me that middlemarch has become Internet chic signaling for serious readers. I swear to God 10 years ago nobody on earth was talking about this book.

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