Hate to break it to you but sending them job openings and code camps counts as bringing this up.

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Ok but if they are smart like OP claims they will surely already know they’re unlikely to have money if they don’t get a job at some point. If OP keeps bringing that up it’s pretty condescending.

What if they are unhappy and working would make them unhappier?

Ok fair enough, for social interactions, board games would probably be better than video games but perhaps they are more introverted than OP.

I’m sure OP has good intentions but as others have said you can’t push your vision of healthy living on others, they have to come to that conclusion themselves. Apparantly these friends are smart so likely know the health effects of a sedentry lifestyle and that’s their choice.

The tone of writing is quite condescending pretending those of us that have jobs or other hobbies live in some kind of work-happy socially integrated utopia.

I think about that all the time personally and think those sort of jobs should be the highest paying.

But getting an average 40 hour per week office job is not helping those sorts of things whatsoever, it will just be increasing profit for shareholders.

“What have they done with their lives up until this point?”

Sounds like they’ve lived a nice if somewhat sheltered life close to their family playing games. Maybe at some point they might get bored of that or want more money and venture out into the world but that’s not up to you or OP to decide/judge, it’s their life.

They play games and socialise online. Why would a board game group be any better than that? In terms of exercise, that’s their prerogative, I’m sure they will at some point when health issues start arising but why are you so bothered if they don’t?

I could personally live quite happily without doing work. When animals are fed and watered do the get back to grafting? No, they socialise, lounge about or play. Stop trying to push your definitions of “living” on others.

“Im not judging”, proceeds to judge.

These days 25 isn’t that old to be living at home given extortionate rent and lack of decent job prospects. So if they had a soul-crushing job they would be “healthy” in your eyes?

Why are you so optimistic/pushy about them becoming wage slaves?

Instrumental Core - The Angels Among Demons

Don’t forget the arse-linking, couch fucking lackey.

Fusili for the consistent sauce-to-pasta ratio.

Edit: Oops looks like Wardacus beat me to it.

At this point it’s easier to list things that aren’t being “enshittified”.

The easiest ways for a corporation to increase profits in the short term is to increase prices, cut staff, reduce quality control, sell ad space or a combination of those. All of these result in inferior products.

Don’t be evil.

He addressed their masters on the podcast last week.

AI is clearly no match for little Bobby Tables.

Across the Anglosphere people seem to use “generally” and “genuinely” almost interchangeably these days.

It’s “a couple of minutes” not “a couple minutes”. Americans tend to drop it for speed, but it kind of fits with the accent I guess.

As far as Americanisms go, this is my least favourite… They seem to be dropping the “go” from the aforementioned and it throws me right off the sentence every time.

Just started reading through Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn trilogy and it feels tailor-made for a game adaptation where the player is a Mistborn for hire before the events of the first book.

Most religions believe in some kind of afterlife. We know that’s unlikely to be true which makes this one all the more valuable.

Welcome to the UK and congrats on already understanding more about the political landscape here than half of the voting population.