I think it's just way too simplistic to try to equate motivation with depression. I'm not saying that one doesn't come along with the other but using a motivational theory to try to describe the causes of depression is not likely something anyone in the field would agree with. (Disclaimer -- I'm not in the field either, however I do teach motivational theories as a part of a class I teach).
hmm well i can find a number of sources that say motivation & depression are intertwined.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/7410560/
https://en.m.wikiversity.org/wiki/Mo...and_motivation
https://books.google.com/books?id=UL...ession&f=false
If people killed themselves because things are rough, third world countries would top the suicide rankings.
For the 4 hours: legal time is 35 but previous legal time was 39. One is often expected to work as much as before most of the time. The consequence is that one can "save" the difference (4 hours a week) to get longer holidays for example.
As for the 70 hours, it's a max during audit Season (jan to june). Rest is mostly 40-50. In Norway you work from 8am to 4pm. I work in a small city 10min from work with a bike. In Paris I used almost 2 hours in public transportation everyday, started around 9 and finished at 8pm almost every day.
Overtime: Big companies get away with it because France have high unemployment and hundred are lining up behind your job. They can threaten you in diverse implicit way as well. It was almost 10 years ago then, but from what I've heard from my friends still working in Paris (most moved to Montreal, Shanghai or London to start their career), not much has changed.
No one knows for sure as there's many factors.
But there's one theory called "evolutionary mismatch" many modern tendencies. This paper gives some very good info about it
People grow up with the wrong expectations of life.
And sitting indoors all day on social media doesn't help make a life fun or interesting either.
Oh, the biting remarks! Oh, the rapier-sharp wit! Oh, I can't be arsed retreading the same old argument about how believing in an invisible sky wizard will or won't automagically make one's life better.
Currently what I'm hating the heck out of is waking up in the morning to attend a security course!
I am not a morning person.
While the causes are obviously multifactorial, I think a lot of people have hit on a bunch of basically accurate assessments. We live in a culture that deals with sad, sedentary people by pumping them full of drugs and then we act shocked that these sad, sedentary people are still pretty suicidal and just have a numbed out state of mind that isn't quite as depressed.
More or less yes. We created a society that is more ordered, but lacks freedom.
Well, it's working less and less for some. You should be careful, bad zombies regain their soul and become wraiths, ghouls or liches. And then they become a threat to the necromancers.
I actually don't live in the USA, and, unfortunately, around me many have lives like this. Especially those younger than me, who are trained especially to work more for less.
You know, I have a few friends saying the same. Either that they want to move to the country or start doing something of their own (like handmade stuff) to live by and all that. And they never do. You see, they, and I, and maybe even you (though I could be wrong about you) are too complacent and apathic. And we have gotten used to these lives and fear starting new ones, because despite being a dream of ours, we also fear the unknown. So we never do.
My advice to you, as the advice I have kept giving my friends in this situation, is "start doing something for you. made by you. for your future, something you like, something you get all or most of the laurels/money for. don't sit and wallow and just be unhappy. do something".
I actually have started learning graphics design myself. I want to be able to build sites and models and one day live off that. It might still take a few more years, but I'll get there. Find what you like and do it.
Indeed, they actually are happier, they get more time for themselves and their loved ones. They don't spend as much time working for someone that gives them little and does not care about them (like most companies) with people they might even dislike (and some they like too, but still, in normal life we ignore the people we dislike, in a work situation we can't).
Oh yes, we are living better than 1000-2000 years ago. However... that farmer that worked his ass off for his crops... got the most of his gains. Nowadays you work for someone else's gains. You don't work for yourself.
Yes, we can do so many more things today. In the end, that peasant from hundreads of years ago couldn't access many of the hobbies we have today. But unfortunately, even with so many things we might like, we lack the time and money to do them. You see, that peasant lacked knowledge of all the hobbies that exist. We do not. But we know we can't do most of them. Which creates a sort of lack we feel, a lack of time for us.
And yes, we are also getting better at diagnosting these problems. I won't deny that. But I doubt Japan and South Korea, for example, have such high rates of suicides because we're better at diagnosting the illnesses.
Reminds me of this
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/ji...sion/82525597/
I agree. The US has lived in great excess for the better part of a half decade. Now a days people don't know what it's like to be forced to drop out of school because your family couldn't afford to clothe you. Excess is the expectation. It's made these depressed folks lose appreciation for the things/opportunities they have. Depression is a part of life, but when it becomes your life it's time to re-evaluate what you want out of it. Maybe it's not really as bad as they think it is...
Because 95% of the western population simply wake up, work and sleep so the other 5% can go do things the other 95% want to do.
Oh and they'll be doing this til they're 80 until they 'retire' and get put in a home with no money and pension to die with depression and dementia.
Oh and most young adults won't be able to afford their own home, they'll have to be sucked dry and flush their money down the drain renting out a single room.
Corruption at the highest levels of our governments is so hilariously transparant that it makes everyone think why the fuck they should bother when taxpayer money is so hopelessly wasted or simply abused by the gluttony at the top.
There's a lot of social, economic and political reasons to be depressed nowadays.
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I blame feminism.
It has left a very large number of females alone, discontent and depressed. It has also left a lot of men alone, confused and suicidal. It is also the reason that if by some miracle a man and woman do get married, it will almost certainly end in an acrimonious divorce. Leaving both parties alone, depressed and suicidal.
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.