i think a government program to give bored dudes little quests to go on would solve a lot of our problems - ThreadSky

ndrew.bsky.social • 20 days ago

i think a government program to give bored dudes little quests to go on would solve a lot of our problems

Reposted from Teddy Wilson

White dudes are just bored, that’s why we need to destroy the economy.

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dogwizard.bsky.social•20 days ago

Just bring back the WPA and CCC

colortexturedesign.bsky.social•20 days ago

ginzhizhawizi.net•20 days ago

the amount of times workers have been subjected to "gamification" of their labor is appalling

toomuchmelon.bsky.social•20 days ago

Love rolling up my sleeves to build air conditioners that look like God the Maker

toomuchmelon.bsky.social•20 days ago

Thank you copilot

mrsfifid.bsky.social•20 days ago

That's BLASPHEMY! (AI! Shame!)

pygmalion55.bsky.social•20 days ago

I mean it's Milo who would die before setting foot in a factory but lolz what does he think factory workers do all day?

pygmalion55.bsky.social•20 days ago

I don't even know what modern factory work is like but back in the day it was far more mind numbingly boring than "bullshit email jobs".

I imagine for factories that still have lots of humans it still is

mrsfifid.bsky.social•20 days ago

The only reason people did factory jobs is that subsistence farming SUCKS. Especially without broad social support. And the only reason people do bullshit email jobs is because working in a factory SUCKS. At least the way we do it.

pygmalion55.bsky.social•20 days ago

And people have nostalgia for mid century factor jobs because unions got them decent pay and safety etc.

Well these assholes are gonna crush unions worse than ever and the unions are total dipshits about all this. Yeah auto workers let's see how good it is for you when inputs are twice as costly

rebeccaore.bsky.social•20 days ago

Subsistence communities are achingly vulnerable to mobile raiders. You don't have to even fight the peasants, just burn the fields before harvest or drive your cattle and goats in. So, what was an egalitarian subsistence community gets saddled with provisioning a bunch who live off them.

mrsfifid.bsky.social•20 days ago

Lol techbros as raiders. That's pretty accurate! Time for Seven Samurai!!!

solidgoldrobot.bsky.social•20 days ago

Totally serious here:
This is called the peace corps

i-gvf.bsky.social•20 days ago

They used to be called wars.

matt-y.bsky.social•20 days ago

The return of the Works Progress Administration

estherinthemiddle.bsky.social•20 days ago

Like mandatory military or community service.

blat.at•20 days ago

FFS. My grandmother was a gifted, intelligent woman who would have loved the opportunity to have an "email job". Unfortunately for her this was the 1910s so her father took her out of school at 14 and sent her off to work as a scullery maid for a rich family. The good old days, eh?

artificialmcb.bsky.social•20 days ago

Problem: capitalist alienation

Solution: force men back into jobs where the theory of alienation was first applied

artificialmcb.bsky.social•20 days ago

See boys this is why y’all need to join bowling leagues & play d&d with ya buddies.

derekcarrsopp.bsky.social•20 days ago

Opening a fun summer camp in the Tennessee Valley

thucidydes.bsky.social•20 days ago

I recall years ago he tweeted something about how men are tough mentally, women were neurotic and crazy and feminism had made it worse.

rebeccaore.bsky.social•20 days ago

Obviously, he doesn't know many women except when they come at him with skillets and rolling pins for trying to seduce their 14 year old sons.

jwski.bsky.social•19 days ago

In my father’s time, there was the CCC…did wonders for many idle and disaffected young men. Bring it back.

gili92107.bsky.social•20 days ago

The lads need hobbies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhammer_40,000

snsptzr.bsky.social•20 days ago

boy do i have the candidate for you! https://youtu.be/vwaiyjh1dGk?si=dqODtIFEL3TSPQGi

someonenamedbrian.bsky.social•19 days ago

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/05/g-s1-46567/how-a-military-recruitment-crisis-is-leaving-the-u-s-vulnerable

gustavoferroni.bsky.social•20 days ago

Putting up tariffs does not automatically create an industrial base and quality jobs. A real strategy to do so would be commendable. But this is not it. The level of ignorance and stupidity of these guys is astonishing.

anniegt.bsky.social•20 days ago

The Origins of DOGE

h2k2rso.bsky.social•20 days ago

"Bring mysterious package (meds) to the witch on the hill (poor old woman)", "gather (expensive) materials to build magic place (community pool)", "save divine beast (kitten stuck on a tree)", "combat evil lord and redistribute his treasure to the villagers he stole it from"- heh could work...

mrsfifid.bsky.social•20 days ago

YOS!!!!

zzztestaccount.bsky.social•20 days ago

UBI but you have to solve an escape room once a month to get it

starlightwishes.bsky.social•20 days ago

There are lots of tales about buried pirate treasure in South America, right? Give 'em a shovel and let 'em go dig.

phyrexianmetamour.bsky.social•20 days ago

geocaching has prevented far more homicides than it has facilitated probably

christosilvia.bsky.social•20 days ago

What do you think joining the military is?

nereus9.bsky.social•20 days ago

Yes, like the Peace Corps.

But doge is about to take an ax to that.

younodonk.bsky.social•20 days ago

We must gameify pro-social activities.

insortediaboli.bsky.social•20 days ago

WPA or CCC but for dudes

kozmikkylekelly.bsky.social•20 days ago

I'm not a bored dude, but I wouldn't mind a mandated quest every now and then, maybe it'll help me meet new IRL people lol.

jtrigg1.bsky.social•20 days ago

Maybe a broader Dungeons & Dragons awareness campaign so these dudes realize they can live out their fantasies of a heroic life every Tuesday night during a TTRPG game.

kerthulhu75.bsky.social•20 days ago

Like the Civilian Conservation Corps but quest-oriented.. not bad.

I'd be tempted to rig the quests so that they involved seeing new places and meeting people.

rational.bsky.social•19 days ago

Could contract it to Strava and Niantic. Although pokemon go is a Saudi asset now

gamcknight.bsky.social•20 days ago

I recall reading something about PayPal giving Musk fake code to dick around with so he wouldn't fuck up the site with his incompetence.

jalexlind.bsky.social•20 days ago

I first heard this story back in 2005 when I worked at Yahoo!, a recently hired coworker had left PayPal and this was one of several stories he told, usually when he was explaining why he personally did not use PayPal. There were similar yet different stories about Thiel.

kikibanger.bsky.social•20 days ago

No fr bc the first half of this book is diary entries from women who can't understand why their idiotic husband is sentencing them+their children to death and disease over 6 months on the trail when they had comfortably lives in NY. And it all comes down to their "call for adventure." It's insane.

policyfuture.bsky.social•20 days ago

Hobbies! You're describing geocaching, and he's literally describing gunpla. Do a bit of job, email or otherwise, then go home and define yourself through your non-work activities!

Honestly baffled by this

dccassandra.bsky.social•20 days ago

Now we know why the Roundtable was invented…

karol-in-tn.bsky.social•20 days ago

If they want to make things they can take up woodworking or something. Or make homes for habitat for humanity or vets.

elfstream.bsky.social•20 days ago

Springtime in Ukraine?

historiken.bsky.social•20 days ago

have him kill some rats in a basement, that oughtta keep him busy for a while

mavenscroft.bsky.social•20 days ago

Oh dear, I think that’s what the Crusades were.

bkz555.bsky.social•20 days ago

Just bury money in holes and then give them shovels.

mrsfifid.bsky.social•20 days ago

CCC part 2! And pay people enough to live on.

jables.bsky.social•20 days ago

I’m really sorry I made fun of geo caching. If that’s your thing go out and have fun in the woods guys.

diana60.bsky.social•20 days ago

In all seriousness, Pete Buttigieg's idea of a year of national service after high school sounds like an amazing way to get young men re-engaged in their own lives and communities.

siebznet.bsky.social•20 days ago

Honestly we need to bring back the Civilian Conservation Corp and send these guys to dig irrigation ditches in Kansas and rebuild outhouses in the Badlands.

elippolis.bsky.social•19 days ago

There is no force more dangerous on this planet than bored 18-25 year old men.

siebznet.bsky.social•20 days ago

Both of which are probably very worthy projects! But they are hard and dirty and the weather in those places is unpleasant for manual labor outside, and there's no doordash, so it would be literal torture for these soft-handed losers.

mrsfifid.bsky.social•20 days ago

But they listen to podcasts about being manly. So get the podcasts to talk about how this is how you become A Man. And women should work with them so they can learn respect...

natanael.bsky.social•20 days ago

And they keep talking about how people want to do physical work again, so why not let them know what that's really like 🤷

franknation.bsky.social•20 days ago

It doesn't sound like this dude ever worked in a factory. It's a job. Not a career.

grant-at-galena.bsky.social•20 days ago

It’s Milo, he’s never worked in his life.

deedub70.bsky.social•20 days ago

Two years of mandatory public service for every citizen would fix that.

jmteo.bsky.social•20 days ago

Bring back geocaching

moviefanforever.bsky.social•20 days ago

Yeah white men are just pining for that dream job of working in a factory.

grant-at-galena.bsky.social•20 days ago

But not Milo, he’s too soft and special to work in a factory. That’s for other white men.

sorocchungus.bsky.social•20 days ago

It’s called joining the army.

richardcasey.bsky.social•20 days ago

Isn't that just The Military?

dadavies.bsky.social•20 days ago

Is he saying they’ll manufacture graven images?

dangersss.bsky.social•20 days ago

You mean like the military or peace corps that already exist?

cardboardrevolution.com•20 days ago

It's so funny how solipsistic these idiots are. Most people don't have email jobs! Most jobs are harder than Milo's fake ass job

realcinematik.bsky.social•19 days ago

Bring back the draft (to rebuild lots of infrastructure)!

https://bsky.app/profile/realcinematik.bsky.social/post/3lm3cgus7mk2k

robertus.bsky.social•20 days ago

Dude standing on the corner with an exclamation point over his head

eczema789.bsky.social•20 days ago

I know this question is going to get me a lot of blowback, but holy shit, why do men (boys) need so much coddling? 😬

mrsfifid.bsky.social•20 days ago

That apple that ADAM decided to eat even tho he knew better...

yanquiuxo1.bsky.social•20 days ago

Turns out raising healthy and happy people requires effort

eczema789.bsky.social•20 days ago

That it does. In equal measures.

schlotrvlr.bsky.social•20 days ago

I wonder if maybe there's this sort of weird thing happening where many mothers are doing dual roles, yet are still carrying the entire weight of the household and their boys aren't prepared for the younger women they're meeting that want a partner, not a child, which feels like rejection? And SM. 🙄

rebeccaore.bsky.social•20 days ago

One other problem is US guys don't realize that partner/ marriages were a thing in even Middle Kingdom Egypt. Saw two limestone statues in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City: she was the chief priestess of a temple while he managed something for the Pharaoh.

schlotrvlr.bsky.social•20 days ago

That's not blaming moms, it's just the young men aren't experiencing the same dynamic in the world as at home and they're not reconciling THAT'S the real world, so they blame everything and everyone else.

robinbobcat.bsky.social•20 days ago

Something like Pokemon Go, except you also have a LARP sword and need to pack a lunch.

wxandpi.bsky.social•19 days ago

I believe you mean: The military

jarmara.bsky.social•20 days ago

Some of them may die, but it is a sacrifice I am willing to make.

josephgruber.com•20 days ago

It was called the CCC. They even fed and housed folks.

ndrew.bsky.social•20 days ago

like, nothing too complicated maybe hide a sword at the end of a moderate hiking trail in shenandoah and send him and his friends an ancient scroll or something

teamquimby.bsky.social•20 days ago

Like how you give a toddler plastic knife and put them down the end of the countertop so they think they’re helping.

costanztrade.bsky.social•20 days ago

I'd love this 🤣
Rock climbing etc is popular for this reason too

pi3832.bsky.social•20 days ago

Leverage multi-player video game technology to enable people create animated film shorts, but where each character is controlled by a different “actor”. Collaborating on some creative, not on competition.

rapturehelmet.bsky.social•20 days ago

CQC - civilian questing corps

finsarg.bsky.social•20 days ago

No joke, i can see a bunch of sword and ornamental goblet collections in dudes living rooms. Getting the boys over to compare trophies and plan the next expedition

margaretdumont.bsky.social•18 days ago

Works Progress Administration, but with scrolls and swords.

2ndadminstate.bsky.social•20 days ago

Alternatively, we could open up abandoned factories and invite them in to use the equipment to make whatever they want. You know, to see how well they can actually handle manual labor, including generating their own power, accessing water, buying supplies, etc.

liftinginapolo.bsky.social•20 days ago

The nation was more secure when racquetball courts called to men like the sea sirens of yore

dustyburwell.bsky.social•20 days ago

If they had any initiative at all, they’d just open up a geo caching website. The quests are _Right there_.

peixeingrato.bsky.social•20 days ago

like where you heading here with hiking trail, push them all off the edge at the end, right?

anti-traitor.bsky.social•20 days ago

How about sending them to Crimea?

kevin2170.bsky.social•20 days ago

Democrats need to run on making policy of the Nathan for you gas station rebate episode. It allowed some weird motherfuckers to spend 24 hours chasing $14 instead of being online and tweeting hate

kevin2170.bsky.social•20 days ago

https://youtu.be/CLJMG2KHpXQ?si=HG40v6o3J1W5hMhY

romanoslekap.bsky.social•20 days ago

It makes me laugh how all the people railing against “participation trophies” need them lol.

canadainbigmac.bsky.social•20 days ago

Enrichment

earnestlib.bsky.social•20 days ago

I do think this would actually help and speaks to actual problems of broader trends of isolation and onlinism replacing in-person experiences. Send everyone a 4-track recorder so they can start a punk band. Problem solved.

ndrew.bsky.social•20 days ago

in the end the answer will always boil down to more disposable income and less time working

schlotrvlr.bsky.social•20 days ago

While I don't disagree, if Americans can't turn around their isolationism & regain some "community" connection that means spending time w/ actual humans, I'm not sure less work & more income will right the ship. It's a start. Younger men spend a truly WILD amount of time isolated in a digital world.

thatoceansmell.bsky.social•20 days ago

Literally my job. However the goal is usually a sick animal or a lost cell phone reported by a tourist. You meet a few random strangers, add stuff to inventory, then get a little cut scene when you return the iPhone to the French chick

thumperscov.bsky.social•20 days ago

Well the Nintendo Switch 2 was about to come out, but they fucked that up too!

lovestealstheday.bsky.social•19 days ago

Isn't that just the gig economy with more words¿

ghostlips.bsky.social•20 days ago

make geocaching mandatory

schlotrvlr.bsky.social•20 days ago

Who knew those socks on the rack were made in the likeness and image of God the Maker! All hail the likeness and image of the Maker in our skivvies and socks. Amen.

templogin.bsky.social•20 days ago

Universal service babeeeeeeee

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